docs(decisions): ADR-020 adopt EARS syntax for normative requirements (#666) - #669
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…#666) Adopt EARS (Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax) as the required syntax for normative requirements in ADRs. The ADR states its own Decision in EARS to dogfood the standard; explanatory prose is intentionally out of scope. Regenerates the Starlight decisions mirror via docs:sync. Status: proposed (flips to accepted when this PR merges). Note: ADR-018 (#548, #662) and ADR-019 (#663) are claimed by in-flight PRs; 020 is the first free number. May need renumbering if the queue shuffles before merge. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adopt EARS (Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax) as the required syntax for normative requirements in ADRs, per issue #666. Adds
ADR-020(status:proposed) and its regenerated Starlight mirror.Area
docs— guides or design sources (docs/guides/,docs/design/)Related
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docs/decisions/ADR-020-ears-requirements-syntax.md— new ADR. Defines the five EARS patterns (ubiquitous, event-driven, state-driven, optional-feature, unwanted-behavior) and requires them for normative requirements. Dogfoods itself: the Decision section's normative requirements are written in EARS; explanatory prose (Context, Consequences) is intentionally out of scope.docs/src/content/docs/decisions/Adr-020-ears-requirements-syntax.md— regenerated Starlight mirror viamise //docs:sync(do not hand-edit).Notes for reviewers
ADR-018is claimed by in-flight PRs docs(decisions): ADR-022 propose central agent asset registry (#246) #548 and feat(carve S8): wire the orchestration arc into the stack and activate it #662, andADR-019by docs(decisions): ADR-019 unify agent tools behind an AgentCore Gateway (#641) #663.ADR-020is the first number colliding with nothing in-flight. If the queue shuffles before merge, this file may need renumbering (slug kept stable so only the prefix changes).proposed, flips toacceptedwhen this merges (perdocs/decisions/README.mdlifecycle).Local verification
mise //docs:build✓ ·mise //docs:syncstable (no mutation) ✓ ·mise //docs:link-checkexit 0 ✓ ·mise //docs:check(astro) 0 errors/0 warnings/0 hints ✓origin/main..HEAD) — no leaks. (The pre-push full-history sweep flags 4 pre-existingaws-account-idfindings on sibling branchfeat/agentcore-gateway-mcp, unrelated to this diff.)Acknowledgment
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