Decisions

The decisions that shape this project, each with its reasons, so that a later change can see why things are as they are. A decision that changes an earlier one gets a new record, and the earlier one says which record replaces it.

Copy the template to the next free number and describe the decision in the pull request that makes it.

Record	Decision	Status
0001	Record the decisions that shape the project	accepted
0002	The AI only reads; a job without AI writes	accepted
0003	Run on the standard library of Python alone	accepted
0004	Keep the prompts and texts independent of the AI vendor	accepted
0005	Close an issue with the release that ships its fix	accepted
0006	Every repository uses the workflows exactly as the templates have them	accepted, amended by 0007
0007	The templates live in templates/; this repository's own workflows come from the blueprint	accepted
0008	The jobs that write reach only GitHub: Harden-Runner blocks every other host	accepted
0009	Limit the AI runs that strangers start, counting issues rather than answers	accepted
0010	The lifecycle counts days of the calendar and keeps the day that a reminder names	accepted
0011	install pins the commit of its own checkout, the release whose templates it writes	accepted
0012	Maintainers and the reporter steer the assistant with commands that are no part of the conversation	accepted
0013	A catalog for each language of the comments, and English around any other	accepted
0014	Bound every run of the AI by its task, put the rules in the system prompt, and show what each run cost	accepted