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Recording institutional decisions

A decision should remain understandable after the people who made it have moved on.

Decision record format

Include a stable identifier, title, status, context, options, decision, consequences, reviewers, conflicts, and date. Link the evidence and related project.

Approval boundaries

Contributors propose changes; appointed stewards approve according to their scope. Financial contribution never grants approval power. Record changes and preserve superseded decisions.