Record

The single writer of the living spec: the glossary (what words mean, edited in place) and ADRs (what was decided, immutable, reversed only by superseding).

Gates

• Autonomous: classify the fact, choose the slot, draft the entry.
• Light: glossary edits; confirm before writing.
• Hard: a committed ADR is immutable. Present the draft, get explicit go-ahead, then write. Never edit a committed ADR in place; reverse it only by superseding. An uncommitted ADR is still soft; see Soft ADRs below.

Route

Durable-fact test: does this change a rule, design, decision, or term? If not, it's behavior or progress; leave it to code and tests, stop. If so: