decision-record

Productivity

Capture an architectural decision so the next session (or engineer) knows WHY. Use after any non-obvious technical choice.

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Decision Record (ADR)

Write a short file docs/decisions/NNN-<slug>.md:

Context — what forced a decision. The constraints.
Options — the 2-3 real candidates, one line each.
Decision — what you picked, dated.
Why — the tradeoff. What you gave up. "We picked Postgres over Mongo because we need real joins; we accept heavier ops."
Consequences — what this now makes easy and hard. Hard-to-reverse choices (schema, auth, data store) MUST get one. Future-you will ask "why on earth did we do this" — answer it now.