ADR NNNN — <title>
- Status: proposed | accepted | superseded by ADR-NNNN
- Date: YYYY-MM-DD
- Spike: <link to spikes/… or “none”>
Context
Section titled “Context”What forced the decision. What we did not know beforehand.
Decision
Section titled “Decision”The decision, stated so a future session can act on it without re-deriving it.
Consequences
Section titled “Consequences”What this makes easy, what it makes hard, and what it forecloses.
What failed
Section titled “What failed”Required section, not optional. Approaches tried and rejected, with the observed reason. A spike that only records what worked is half a spike.