decision-lifecyclelisted

# decision-lifecycle Author and track ADRs. Routed to when the user invokes `/adr "<title>"` (author a new ADR) or `/adr-status [--adr N]` (list ADR health, read-only). Every ADR is user-attributed — this skill never records a decision the user did not explicitly make. The append-only decision-log format (entry fields, supersession protocol) lives in [includes/smarts/decision-log-format.md](../../includes/smarts/decision-log-format.md). Read it before writing a log line; do not restate it here. **Boundary with `decision-variance`.** This skill owns ADR *authoring* and *status* (`/adr`, `/adr-status`) — recording a decision the user has already made, and reporting ADR health. `decision-variance` owns *arbitration* — detecting variances between artifacts and the scaffold, scoring options via SMARTS, and the decision log itself. The two share the canonical SMARTS reference under [includes/smarts/](../../includes/smarts) (`core.md` for scoring, `decision-log-format.md` for the log) and one ADR template (`references/adr-template.md`); they are one domain split by responsibility, not duplicated. When a decision needs *making* (competing options), route to `decision-variance`; when it needs *recording* (already decided), stay here. ## Pre-flight Read these, or STOP and surface the gap — never guess a path: - `<project-root>/.codearbiter/decisions/` — the ADR directory and existing records. Create it on first `/adr` if absent. - For `/adr`: confirm the user explicitly authorize