Decider

Written for version 0.1.14. Part of Contributing in your role, which lists the sources.

You. Anyone AGENTS.md names for an area, such as a clinical question or the statistical methods. A project may have several deciders, each for their own area.

The assistant. It drafts each decision issue with the question, the options and the evidence, and asks you. A check-in can list each decision waiting on you, one line per option, with a link to the issue. It won’t choose for you, and it won’t say you decided something unless there is a written record of it.

In the repository. You state your choice in the decision issue. If you don’t use GitHub, you can decide by email or in a meeting. Whoever received your answer then posts your exact words in the issue, with your name, the date and how it was given. A summary or a memory of what you said doesn’t count. The decision takes effect when a pull request that rewrites the plan and closes the issue is merged.

Who decides. You, within your area. Anyone else may add options and evidence.

More. The plan and its decisions.