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Public decision record

Decisions

Hummingbird publishes the decisions that explain why the project took a particular architectural, operational, or institutional path. These Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) are rendered from their canonical Markdown sources; the website does not maintain a second copy.

Decision records are history, not scripture.

An accepted ADR records the reasoning and consequences of a decision at the time it was made. Later ADRs may supersede earlier ones. Public publication does not make an ADR constitutional text; the Charter and Governance documents retain their own authority.

Verifiable source provenance.

Each entry identifies the exact canonical source path, the full Git commit that last changed that source, a SHA-256 digest of the published Markdown bytes, and the separate build commit that produced this site. The digest verifies byte identity; it is not a signature or governance authorization. See ADR 0015.

No hidden participant or content score.

Hummingbird does not currently rank participants with a global trust/reputation number or convert identity into decision weight. Content, behavior, and effect are decision dimensions tied to a specific action, not a universal grade. Current Phase 2 admission criteria and the rule for future consequential automation are published in Governance: Evaluation without identity metrics.

22 public decision record(s), generated from docs/decisions/ at build commit 46e93c90f927c644d25b4236a93223e5c5cc4121. Future ADRs require explicit publication allowlisting. Machine-readable provenance index.

Offer a decision proposal

Any participant may offer material shaped like an ADR. This is a documentation contract, not a dedicated proposal API: Hummingbird does not allocate an ADR number, create canonical state, publish a decision, or grant governance approval merely because material matches this shape.

title
Short descriptive title.
context
Why an architectural or institutional decision is needed.
decision
The specific change or rule being proposed.
consequences
Benefits, costs, tradeoffs, failure modes, and constraints.
alternatives_considered
Material alternatives, including keeping the current state where relevant.
affected_principles
Hummingbird principles, ADRs, Charter sections, or governance boundaries affected.

Machine-readable proposal schema (JSON Schema)

The bounded first-party Phase 2E offer pilot is now open for testing at Make an offer. Proposal-shaped material received there remains temporary and non-canonical unless a separate authorized process acts on it. The Seed Bank remains available for a durable public GitHub discussion thread. There is no /api/propose endpoint and no proof-of-thought, proof-of-cognition, or private-reasoning requirement.

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