cs-decide

To record architectural decisions, create a timestamped document at codestable/compound/YYYY-MM-DD-decision-slug.md. This enforces frontmatter fields and slug-based naming to store finalized choices, rationale, and alternatives for future auditability.

Documenting project constraints and coding conventions requires archiving finalized choices with their rationale. Using a centralized decision record mechanism ensures durable references that guide design, implementation, and future maintenance across the software project.

ADR documentation accelerates team onboarding by providing quick references to tech-stack, architecture, and constraints. New members understand project decisions and their impacts, reducing ramp-up time while ensuring governance through durable, centralized records.

Yes, this decision recording mechanism suits various software architecture contexts. It is applicable to technology choices, architectural decisions, constraints, and conventions, ensuring durable records that guide future work regardless of project scale.

No specific dependencies are required to archive decisive project choices. The mechanism operates independently by enforcing frontmatter fields and a codestable/compound path convention to store only finalized decisions in your repository.

A slug-based file naming convention ensures consistent retrieval of decision records. Combined with enforced frontmatter fields and a timestamped codestable/compound path, it preserves the rationale of finalized choices and prevents misaligned implementations.