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Decision ledger

The choices that shape a change — which approach, which trade-off, what to defer — are the reasoning that shapes everything after. Cerebe puts them on the record: enumerated, classified, and tracked to resolution.

The problem

The reasoning behind a change deserves to be durable.

When work moves fast — and especially when an agent works ahead — the choices that steer it get made in passing: which approach, which trade-off, what to leave for later. Those forks are the reasoning that shapes everything downstream, and they're worth keeping somewhere more durable than a chat thread.

How it works

Enumerated, classified, resolved.

Cerebe records the consequential decisions behind a change and classifies each one — by how reversible it is, and who should own it. Each decision is then answered, with who decided and on what basis, or deferred to a recorded safe default. Anything still open stays visible until it's resolved, so the reasoning is carried into the work and reviewed alongside the change rather than left implicit.

  • Each consequential decision is enumerated and classified by how reversible it is and who should own it.
  • An answered decision records who decided and on what basis.
  • A deferred decision names the safe default it falls back to.
  • Open decisions stay visible until they're resolved, and the rationale is reviewed alongside the change.

The reasoning behind a change, kept on the record.

Consequential decisions are enumerated, answered or deferred, and carried into the work.