adr-eligibility-gate

Use when deciding WHETHER a candidate architectural choice deserves an architecture decision record, before any record is drafted: a story enters DESIGN with a list of candidate choices, a reviewer flags ADR inflation, or someone asks "should I write an ADR for X?", "how many ADRs does this story need?", "is this ADR-worthy?", "this feels like too many ADRs", "disambiguate baseline from decision". Runs a baseline-vs-decision gate over each candidate and returns ELIGIBLE or NOT ELIGIBLE with the baseline, convention or architecture test that already covers it. Do NOT use when the decision is already settled and the user asks for the record to be written, when the request is about the ADR template, status transitions, superseding or lifecycle, or when the question is which pattern to adopt — those belong to architecture-decisions and architecture-patterns.