[vu1n]

Before: agents read ratified decisions (and the "Decisions are logged, not re-litigated" line) as limits on what they could explore, so ideas got ruled out just because a decision existed. CI pinned brief v0.4.2.

After: decisions bind code, not thinking. When exploring or comparing, agents judge an option on its merits and name the decisions it would reverse; when conforming takes workarounds they still conform but flag that the decision may be out of date. CI runs brief v0.5.2, so merging an amendment PR ratifies it, and CI auto-merges an amendment PR when Clef rates every amendment below 0.3 on "should this wait for the owner's eyes?" (set BRIEF_AUTO_MERGE=off to keep every merge human).

How: brief init --ci --with-skills from v0.5.2 (workflow, convention block, skills), plus the "not re-litigated" line in AGENTS.md rescoped to "logged, and changed in the open". brief check passes; brief doctor reports only the existing draft workspace-cow-fork info.

---

Generated by Claude Code