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ADR-016 — Mechanisms Over Mandatory Policies
Provide useful primitives and boundaries without prescribing one team’s complete operating policy.
Status
Accepted
Context
Teams have different review, scheduling, security, and deployment requirements.
Decision
Expose mechanisms such as isolation, Intent, resource allocation, and Candidates. Let teams compose their own policies around them.
Consequences
Adoption is flexible, but documentation must be clear about which guarantees are absent by default.