design-adr-format

An ADR template documents architectural decisions to capture rationale and context at critical forks, preserving intent over time. You need it when making significant design choices that require traceability and historical reasoning for future onboarding and review.

To document architecture decisions, create a markdown file under docs/adr/ using the ADR template. Populate the frontmatter metadata and body sections to specify scope, context, and consequences, ensuring a structured and repeatable format for traceability.

Yes, the ADR template enforces a frontmatter-driven structure with required metadata and a consistent ADR body. This standardized format ensures scope, context, and consequences of design choices are uniformly captured for all architecture decisions.

The best way to structure YAML frontmatter for an architecture decision record is using the enforced frontmatter-driven structure from the ADR template. This captures required metadata, links related decisions and stakeholders, and ensures traceability across your documentation.

You link related architecture decisions and stakeholders by specifying them in the ADR frontmatter metadata. The template enforces this structure to enable traceability, connecting each decision record to related choices and involved stakeholders for improved onboarding.

Yes, you can use this ADR template for onboarding. It preserves historical reasoning behind design choices and improves review by documenting the rationale and context at decision points, ensuring new developers understand past architectural decisions.