Architectural Decision Records
Architectural Decision Records
Section titled “Architectural Decision Records”This directory records the architectural decisions behind the research-harness template, using the Structured MADR (SMADR) format — MADR enriched with structured YAML frontmatter, per-option risk assessment, and an audit trail. Each record captures one decision: its context, the options weighed, the outcome, the consequences, and an audit of how the decision is realized in the repository. Records are immutable once accepted; a reversal is a new record that supersedes the old one.
Start a new record from template.md, numbered sequentially.
| ADR | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 0001 | Four-layer single-repository architecture | accepted |
| 0002 | MIF Level-3 I/O conformance as the harness substrate | accepted |
| 0003 | Domain-general, config-declared research dimensions | accepted |
| 0004 | Single adversarial falsification gate with ordinal verdicts | accepted |
| 0005 | Packs and plugins as the only extension surface | accepted |
| 0006 | Content-hashed, append-only goal versioning | proposed |
| 0007 | Canonical report channel as L3 source of truth; blog channel MIF-exempt | accepted |
| 0008 | Attested delivery and fail-closed supply-chain verification | accepted |
| 0009 | The Astro/Starlight site renders the full instance corpus | accepted |