ADR-041: Reserved
Placeholder preserving ADR numbering sequence. This number was skipped during ADR creation and is reserved for future use.
Last updated
Status
Withdrawn
Context
This stub preserves the numbering audit trail per ADR best practices — gaps in numbering should be documented rather than silently ignored (matching the existing ADR-007 and ADR-016 reserved stubs).
Unlike those stubs, ADR-041 was not merely skipped: the Phase 2 testing plan
deliberately reserved it for an optional Gherkin / BDD-style specs decision —
*.feature files consumed by Playwright — to be opened only if the E2E restructure
surfaced acceptance criteria too ambiguous for prose. It did not: the split-out tests
(one logical assertion per test, behaviour-describing names per
ADR-037) already read as specifications, so adding
Given/When/Then would be ceremony without signal.
Decision
Do not open ADR-041 at this time; the number stays reserved for the Gherkin/BDD
decision specifically. The re-open trigger is: “prose acceptance criteria are ambiguous
enough that test reviewers disagree about whether the test matches the spec.” Until that
fires, the tests-as-specs convention stands. The operative statement of this convention
lives in .claude/workflow.md (“Gherkin / BDD-style specs — declined”); this stub
records the same decision in the ADR audit trail.
References
Date: 2026-06-07
Participants: Template maintainers
Outcome: Withdrawn (number reserved)