Decision Ledger is an upcoming Atlas capability that will track decisions in two states: open, meaning a decision you still need to make, and settled, meaning one you made along with why. Its headline job is to surface the open decisions you forgot were pending, at the moment you work in that area, so the question that was quietly blocking progress actually gets decided. It will also record settled decisions so the agent does not re-litigate them.
The decisions that hurt are the open ones
The costly decisions are not the ones you made; they are the ones you needed to make and forgot were open.
Decision Ledger will keep open decisions visible and aging-aware, so a question raised on a call or in a session does not stall the work indefinitely. When an open decision has been pending too long, or you start working in the area it touches, it resurfaces.
Settled decisions keep their reasons
A decision without its rationale gets re-argued; a recorded one does not.
When you settle a decision, Decision Ledger will capture the outcome and the reasoning behind it as a durable record. The agent can then avoid re-litigating settled questions, and you keep a trail of why the system is shaped the way it is.
Fed by your calls and your sessions
Decisions surface both in client calls and while you code.
Decision Ledger is designed to draw open decisions from extracted call transcripts and from coding sessions, so the questions raised in either place land in one tracker rather than evaporating into scrollback.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Atlas decision tracking available now?
- Not yet. It is a planned Atlas capability described on this page.
- How is this different from a decision log?
- A log only records decisions you already made. Decision Ledger also tracks open decisions you still need to make and reminds you about them.
- How will it know a decision is still open?
- It tracks decisions raised in calls and sessions, keeps the unresolved ones in an open state, and ages them so forgotten ones resurface.
- Where do the decisions come from?
- From extracted call transcripts and from your coding sessions, captured as they are raised.
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