didericis
1308e61c7e
Move the document-type comparison out of docs/decisions/README.md (where it only surfaced if you were already in the decisions dir) up to a new docs/README.md, renamed "When to write which document". Leave a pointer from the decisions README. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
902 B
902 B
Docs
How this project records what it builds and why — and a guide to picking the right document for what you're capturing.
When to write which document
| Artifact | For |
|---|---|
PRD (docs/prds/) |
A feature: what to build, scope, success criteria. |
Research note (docs/research/) |
A landscape/tradeoff investigation. |
Decision record (docs/decisions/) |
A decision that isn't itself a feature — a policy, a convention, a "we will / won't do this," or a load-bearing choice made inside a larger PRD that deserves to be discoverable on its own. |
A decision that's fully specified by a PRD doesn't need duplicating in a decision record. Write one when the decision would otherwise be buried in prose, lost in an issue thread, or have no in-repo home at all (small requests that don't merit a PRD; non-feature choices like merge strategy or a trust posture).