{"slug": "your-agent-keeps-re-deciding-settled-questions-give-each-decision-a-scope", "title": "Your agent keeps re-deciding settled questions. Give each decision a scope.", "summary": "The AuzzurA team published a Dev.to post arguing that coding agents re-litigate settled questions because decisions live in unstructured rules files rather than scoped entries, and proposing a five-field decision format: Statement, Scope, Status, Replaces and Why. Under the approach, only Accepted decisions whose scope matches the task's files or task type go to the top of the prompt, and agents write new findings as Proposed entries for one-time human review. The post promotes AuzzurA's DM product, which stores approved Rules, Skills and Decisions and returns agent learnings for review.", "body_md": "# Your agent keeps re-deciding settled questions. Give each decision a scope.\n\nIf your coding agent keeps reopening questions you already settled (\"should we use the ORM here?\", \"can I change this public API?\"), the problem usually isn't the model. The decision exists only in someone's head, an old chat, or a long rules file where it competes with fifty other lines. A rules fi\n\nle grows by addition. Old guidance stays next to new guidance, nothing says which part of the codebase a line applies to, and the agent gets all of it on every task. It follows some lines and quietly drops others. A decision your agent can use has five fields: Statement.\n\nOne or two sentences, phrased as what to do or not do. Scope. Which directories, services or task types it applies to. Without a scope it gets applied everywhere, or nowhere.\n\nStatus. Proposed, Accepted or Superseded. Only Accepted decisions go to the agent. Replaces.\n\nThe earlier decision it supersedes, so the old one stops reaching new tasks. Why. One sentence. It helps the agent handle cases the statement doesn't cover.\n\nBefore a task, select the Accepted decisions whose scope matches the files or task type, and put those at the top of the prompt. Ten relevant decisions beat two hundred lines of history. At the end of a task, ask the agent: \"Did you make or discover any decision the next task should know? Write it as a Proposed entry.\" A person reviews it once.\n\nAfter that it's reused, without asking again on every task. With several people and agents, the file becomes the bottleneck. That's the problem we work on at AuzzurA with DM: it keeps the approved Rules, Skills and Decisions, gives each task the ones that apply with the reason each applies, and brings the agent's learnings back for review. https://dm.auzzura.com?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dm_launch Disclosure: this post is from the AuzzurA team, which builds DM.\n\n## Key Takeaways\n\n- •Old guidance stays next to new guidance, nothing says which part of the codebase a line applies to, and the agent gets all of it on every task.\n- •This story was reported by **Dev.to** , covering developments in the**dev** space.\n- •AI advancements continue to reshape industries — read the full article on Dev.to for complete coverage.\n\n📖 Continue reading the full article:\n\n[Read Full Article on Dev.to →](https://dev.to/auzzura/your-agent-keeps-re-deciding-settled-questions-give-each-decision-a-scope-n9b)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agent-keeps-re-deciding-settled-questions-give-each-decision-a-scope", "canonical_source": "https://ainexusdaily.vercel.app/article/2026-11-12-your-agent-keeps-re-deciding-settled-questions-give-each-decision-a-scope", "published_at": "2026-11-12 14:37:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-12 14:53:53.083972+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["AuzzurA", "DM", "Dev.to"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agent-keeps-re-deciding-settled-questions-give-each-decision-a-scope", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agent-keeps-re-deciding-settled-questions-give-each-decision-a-scope.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agent-keeps-re-deciding-settled-questions-give-each-decision-a-scope.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agent-keeps-re-deciding-settled-questions-give-each-decision-a-scope.jsonld"}}