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Architecture Decision Records

An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) captures one significant decision — the context, the choice made, and its consequences — so the reasoning lives in the repo alongside the code. Decisions are immutable once accepted: to change one, add a new ADR that supersedes it.

DocSlime’s canonical directory is docs/engineering/adrs/. GraphForge’s accepted ADR bodies live in ../../adr/ as a contiguous v0.5.0 sequence (00010014) after the #2730 cull/renumber (#2725). This folder is an index only — do not duplicate ADR bodies or fork a second numbering sequence here.

Published Starlight nav places this log and the docs/adr/ bodies under Engineering → Architecture Decision Records (#2770 / #2771).

docslime add adr <short-slug>

Until bodies move under this folder, add new ADR markdown under docs/adr/ and update both ../../adr/README.md and this decision log in the same change.

  • Proposed — under discussion.
  • Accepted — decided and in effect.
  • Superseded by ADR-NNNN — replaced by a later decision.
  • Deprecated — no longer relevant.

Keeper set after #2730 (mirrors ../../adr/README.md):

ADR Title Status Path
0001 Rust Core Accepted ../../adr/0001-rust-core.md
0002 Recursive Descent + Pratt Parser for gf-cypher Accepted ../../adr/0002-lr1-grammar.md
0003 Progressive Ontology — Exploration First Accepted ../../adr/0003-progressive-ontology.md
0004 Graph-Native Adjacency Index Accepted ../../adr/0004-adjacency-index.md
0005 Layered Architecture — Graph / Knowledge / Workbench Accepted ../../adr/0005-layered-architecture.md
0006 Append-only epistemic interpretation Accepted ../../adr/0006-epistemic-model.md
0007 Runtime Temporal Values Accepted ../../adr/0007-temporal-values.md
0008 Heterogeneous List Values Accepted ../../adr/0008-heterogeneous-lists.md
0009 Nested Heterogeneous List Values Accepted ../../adr/0009-nested-heterogeneous-lists.md
0010 Wide date and duration Accepted ../../adr/0010-wide-date-and-duration.md
0011 Dynamic Heterogeneous Value Lists Accepted ../../adr/0011-dynamic-heterogeneous-values.md
0012 Knowledge and epistemic domain ownership and schema evolution Accepted ../../adr/0012-m20-domain-ownership.md
0013 Durable v0.5 project-generation protocol Accepted ../../adr/0013-project-generation-protocol.md
0014 Complete-workspace checkpoints Accepted ../../adr/0014-workspace-checkpoints.md
0015 Three embedded project-write modes Accepted ../../adr/0015-embedded-write-modes.md
0016 Repository integration and deployment configuration boundary Accepted ../../adr/0016-repository-integration-and-deployment-configuration.md