Principal Engineer Decisions¶
Workflow¶
- State the problem, hard constraints and what success looks like.
- Compare a small set of viable options including the current approach using evidence, cost, reversibility and operating burden.
- Choose a proportionate solution; include a migration/rollback path and the condition that would justify revisiting it.
- Record the decision in the current work file or an existing ADR location; avoid a second competing decision log.
Completion¶
Return the concrete result, verification evidence and any material unresolved limitation. Keep documentation proportional to the change and preserve human feedback.
Focused references¶
- Detailed examples: load only the section relevant to the task.
Canonical source: skills/general/principal-engineer-decisions.md.