IDRs as Records of Intent

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In Writing the Docs: 2026 Edition, I talked a little bit about IDRs (Implementation Decision Records, a pun on "Architecture Decision Records" which predate adoption of LLMs). We need a persistent, queryable serialization format that allows multiple tools to consume the extracted metadata without re-scanning the repository. I don't think it really gave the agent much of a goal aside from "use duckdb in some way" to replace some other mechanism.

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