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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>
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# Docs
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How this project records what it builds and why — and a guide to
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picking the right document for what you're capturing.
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## When to write which document
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| Artifact | For |
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| **PRD** (`docs/prds/`) | A feature: what to build, scope, success criteria. |
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| **Research note** (`docs/research/`) | A landscape/tradeoff investigation. |
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| **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. |
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A decision that's fully specified by a PRD doesn't need duplicating in
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a decision record. Write one when the *decision* would otherwise be
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buried in prose, lost in an issue thread, or have no in-repo home at
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all (small requests that don't merit a PRD; non-feature choices like
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merge strategy or a trust posture).
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