My agent followed a decision we had dropped
An old document in the repository still describes the approach you abandoned, and the agent read it as current.
What happened
You changed direction weeks ago, but the agent rebuilt something the old way, citing a file in the repository.
Why it happens
A file has no state. Nothing tells an agent that an ADR or a note in docs/ no longer applies, so it treats everything it finds as current.
What Corpole does
- Gives every record a state. A Retired record never reaches the agent's context.
- Flags a pull request that cites a Retired record, and the GitHub check fails on it.
- Tells the agent that only Authority binds; Draft and Approved are informative.
What you do
- Find the record that describes the dropped approach and retire it, ideally with a
replacesrelation to the one that holds now. - Move the old file's content into Corpole with
/corpole:handover, so the file stops being an authority. - Ask the agent to redo the change against the current Authority records.
Keep it from happening again
- Retire a record the moment it stops applying; do not just edit its text.
- Keep direction-setting documents in Corpole rather than in the repository.