Key Concepts
Learn the minimum vocabulary you need before using the dashboard, GitHub checks, or MCP workflows.
DecisionOps becomes much easier to use once a few ideas are clear.
Decision Record
A decision record captures a meaningful choice, its context, its alternatives, and its consequences.
Scope
Decisions can apply at different levels, such as organization-wide guidance or repository-specific exceptions.
Lifecycle
Decisions move through states such as draft, accepted, deprecated, or superseded so teams know what is current.
Governance
Governance is the layer that decides how strongly a team wants to enforce existing decisions in day-to-day work.
Observability
Decision history, suggestions, review activity, and monitoring help teams see whether guidance is staying useful over time.
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