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Use when a non-trivial change lands or is abandoned and its decision, rejected alternatives, and reason must be captured. Not for trivial or corrective changes: those belong in CHANGELOG.

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# Keep why continuous capture

## Contract

| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | User implements or reviews a non-trivial change involving a design decision, rejected alternative, workaround, incident fix, operational constraint, or changed assumption, including a change started and then abandoned after discovering why it must not be touched (no diff results). Proportionality gate: obvious/self-evident choices get a sentence, not an entry; corrections of stale values/bugs are CHANGELOG material, not decisions. |
| Authority | Reversible local: writes only one named topic file and one index line in the configured context directory; rollback is undo. No remote, VCS-history, credential, paid, published, or deployed mutation. |
| Side effect | Writes or updates one topic file and one index line in the configured context directory and keeps the context index lean; records Decision + rejected alternative(s) + Reason, Type (decision | workaround | incident | constraint, one line per value or 'undefined: <reason>'), Status (active | superseded | open | needs-review), Evidence (confirmed | inferred | unknown), Source/Verification when traceable; optionally asks for issue/ticket/PR/post-mortem link per source-reference setting (always | never | filtered:<criteria>): 'no reference exists' is a complete answer, never invented. |
| Done | Entry exists with all weight-bearing fields, zero invented rationale (gaps become focused questions or explicit unknown), conflicting sources recorded with conflict flagged open rather than resolved, confirmation gate honored, existing topic file updated instead of duplicated. |

## Inputs

- Topic name (required): the decision or topic this entry belongs to. Supplied by the change context (e.g., the name of the file, feature, or concern being modified).