ADR-014 — Multi-Repo Atomic Integration Is Out of Scope

Independent repositories keep independent histories; the reference architecture does not provide a distributed transaction.

Status

Accepted

Context

Related repositories may need coordinated changes, but atomic multi-repo commits are expensive and implementation-specific.

Decision

Produce separate Candidates and use an explicit orchestration or release process when multiple repositories must move together. Nesting independent checkouts under an ignored repos/ directory improves discoverability but does not change this boundary; submodules are not used as an implicit atomic integration mechanism.

Consequences

The core remains simple and portable. Cross-repository promotion can require additional tooling.