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title: "Decisions · Agentic Atlas"
description: "The consequential rulings behind the patterns, selected from the corpus workshop. Each record states the question it faced and the ruling that settled it."
canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions"
last-updated: "2026-09-23"
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How this was argued

# Decisions

Consequential rulings selected from the corpus workshop, in manifest order.

## Decision records

1. 0007-workflow-scope-and-reader
   [Workflow scope and reader](https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions/0007-workflow-scope-and-reader)
   The unit of analysis is the agentic workflow.
   accepted
2. 0008-recursive-llm-dispatch
   [Recursive LLM parent-child dispatch](https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions/0008-recursive-llm-dispatch)
   The primitive defines one edge, not a supported recursion depth.
   accepted
3. 0009-context-design-objectives
   [Context design is a constrained tradeoff](https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions/0009-context-design-objectives)
   Context feasibility and diagnosability are designed jointly.
   accepted
4. 0010-domain-boundary-revisions
   [Workflow-level domain boundaries](https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions/0010-domain-boundary-revisions)
   The workflow reframing exposed several nodes whose homes or names were inherited from skill packaging rather than their structural moves.
   accepted
5. 0011-artifact-node-metadata-in-frontmatter
   [Artifact-form node metadata lives in frontmatter](https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions/0011-artifact-node-metadata-in-frontmatter)
   Artifact-form nodes carry the same four fields as lowercase kind: / path: / status: / hook: keys in their existing YAML frontmatter — the artifact's metadata…
   accepted
6. 0013-deferred-context-measurement
   [Deferred context is grounded in measured skills](https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions/0013-deferred-context-measurement)
   claude-api carries a 339-token description, a 20,060-token body, and 112,524 tokens across 25 reference files (median 2,801).
   accepted
7. 0014-reference-data-rag-economics
   [Reference data's RAG economics — what the evidence licenses](https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions/0014-reference-data-rag-economics)
   The node carries no numeric floor (ruled 2026-08-02).
   accepted
8. 0015-artifact-form-example-proof
   [Artifact-form examples prove through the reviewing parent](https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions/0015-artifact-form-example-proof)
   Artifact-form examples keep a non-meta body and prove stable through their reviewing parent. They are exempt from R1's example-section skeleton.
   accepted
9. 0017-mixed-instrument-bill-grounding
   [Bills are grounded by a mixed-instrument regime](https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions/0017-mixed-instrument-bill-grounding)
   Two splits fall straight out. A token denomination spanning both hard instruments is split into two columns.
   accepted
10. 0021-context-efficiency-analytic-lenses
    [Context efficiency's lenses are analytic; output spend is scored by return](https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions/0021-context-efficiency-analytic-lenses)
    The three lenses are analytic, not benchmarks.
    accepted