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The ADR pattern works pretty well without any help; using frontmatter with context cues seems to be better than just descriptive file names, but I haven’t measu
by threecheese 1mo ago
The ADR pattern works pretty well without any help; using frontmatter with context cues seems to be better than just descriptive file names, but I haven’t measured it. You do need to make sure every Decision is accurately scoped and is something you want to enforce, because the agent will use it as Law (in sometimes interesting and hilarious ways).
- hnlmorg 1mo agoIs there any skills or agents file you’d recommend for working with ADRs?
- threecheese 1mo agoThe LLMs I use know what an ADR is; try asking for one the next time you and the agent come up with a significant one. What I will do is in Claude/agents.md specify where decisions live (usually docs/decisions), and then during inference I’ll ask them to produce one. I am using Claude mostly, and I find that it proactively reads most docs (too many lol), but something like the Pi harness may need explicit cues or a skill. The “how” is less important though ime; keeping it from getting out of hand is the real trick. Agents will happily file ADRs all day and align their decisions with all of them, and this will cost you $tokens. Yegge’s recent article resonated with me for precisely this reason - I am in no way using these tools at his scale, but am seeing the same behavior. Its sunday, and an agent has asked me to “ratify” an adr twice already :)
- tedmartynov 29d ago[flagged]