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Decision Memory · Ask Foixar

The "why" survives the person who decided it.

Architectural decisions are captured with provenance — who, when, from which conversation — and cited back automatically the next time they're relevant: in a spec, on a PR, or in a question asked in Teams.

Decision Memory · ADR-014
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All payment traffic routes through the API gateway

Direct provider calls are forbidden from client apps. Decided after the March incident review; supersedes the 2024 direct-integration pattern.

captured in Feature Studio Q&A decided by t.okafor · 14 Mar 2026 receipt Δ 8c41f2
asked 4× this quarter · answered from memory every time
#delivery · Microsoft Teamsgrounded
MM. JansenEng · 2:14 PM

@Foixar why can't the portal call the payments provider directly? Would save us a hop.

FoixarAPP2:14 PM

Because your team decided against it in March — after the incident review, all payment traffic goes through the gateway. The direct pattern was retired. Two examples already follow it: invoice-pay and refunds.

cited: ADR-014 · decided 14 Mar 2026
no re-litigating · the decision answers for itself
decided in Feature Studio cited in the next spec enforced on PR #482 answered in Teams — one decision, four appearances
Why it matters

Institutional memory, without the institution-sized effort.

Nobody maintains a decision log by hand. So Foixar captures decisions where they actually happen.

Captured in the flow

Decisions land from Feature Studio Q&A, document imports, and Ask Foixar conversations — a by-product of work, not a separate chore that dies in week three.

zero "update the wiki" tickets
Cited, not repeated

When a spec, a PR check, or a Teams question touches a past decision, Foixar cites it — with the who and the when — instead of letting the debate restart from zero.

provenance on every citation
Survives turnover

The architect who decided it changes teams; the context stays. New joiners inherit the "why" on day one instead of doing archaeology in month three.

the team member who never leaves

Stop re-litigating March.

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