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@dingsdax dingsdax commented Mar 6, 2026

Add async-first communication guidelines to the SDK developer docs, covering two areas that were absent from the existing principles and standards.

Principles (principles/index.mdx): two new entries inserted before the technical SDK principles:

  • Async-first — work must be understandable without attending a meeting; decisions belong in issues, docs, and PRs
  • Meetings are accelerators, not storage — meetings may clarify and unblock, but every decision-producing meeting must produce a written summary

Standards (coordination-maintenance.mdx): new decision-documentation SpecSection covering the full lifecycle of a decision — anchoring it in an issue before discussing, capturing notes/summaries if a meeting occurs, updating the issue immediately after, and moving Slack outcomes to the system of record (Linear, GitHub, Develop Docs). Includes a concrete good/bad example pair.

Existing principles already cover "decisions must be written down" and "discussion before implementation", so this PR adds only what was missing: the async-first mindset, meeting hygiene requirements, and the Slack → system-of-record rule.

…entation standard

Introduce two new working principles — async-first and meetings are
accelerators not storage — to make explicit that decisions must live in
written artifacts, not meetings or memory.

Add a decision-documentation SpecSection to coordination-maintenance
covering the full lifecycle: anchoring discussions in issues before a
decision, capturing notes/summaries during meetings, updating the issue
after, and moving Slack outcomes to the system of record.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>
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