Architecture Decisions

Value: Communication -- architecture decisions grounded in verified research ensure every contributor understands not just why a choice was made, but that the reasoning reflects reality. Decisions based on assumptions are decisions waiting to fail.

Purpose

Teaches the agent to move architecture decisions through a strict four-phase lifecycle: research dependencies first, draft from verified findings, hold for review, merge only with explicit authorization. Prevents decisions based on stale assumptions about external dependencies. See references/adr-lifecycle.md for detailed phase rules.

Practices

Follow the Four-Phase ADR Lifecycle