Architecture Decision Records

What was decided, what it rules out, and the evidence behind it

The architectural decisions behind my work: what was decided, what it rules out, which alternatives were rejected, and the evidence in shipped code.

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ADR-005 Accepted

Treat Error Messages as First-Class Outputs

Diagnostics and error messaging at validation boundaries
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ADR-004 Accepted

Test External Source-of-Truth Invariants at the Seam

Testing strategy for tools whose definition of "correct" is owned by an external, independently-versioned system
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ADR-003 Accepted

Gate Irreversible Actions on Provable Eligibility, Not Navigation

Workflow and submission validation for multi-step processes ending in an irreversible action
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ADR-002 Accepted

Validate LLM Workflow Topology Before Execution

Workflow graph validation and execution boundaries for LLM systems
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ADR-001 Accepted

Validate Configuration Before Execution

Configuration validation and execution boundaries
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