Decision Log

Point-in-time records of specific decisions — context, alternatives, and reasoning as they stood when each call was made. For current policy and principles, see Design Principles.

Doc	Date	Status	Summary
Project Fork	2026-05-09	decided	Fork from xing5/mcp-google-sheets; alternatives evaluated
Composite Tools	2026-05-22	decided	Case analysis of specific composite tools approved or ruled out
Testing Approach	2026-05-13	decided	Why AI-directed manual verification over automated integration tests
Publishing Strategy	2026-05-23	draft	Two-track PyPI release (stable + edge); version injection open
Docs Formatting Architecture	2026-06-17	decided	Two-layer approach (direct API tools + HTML abstraction via AST); phase plan for #41, #65–#70, #79–#82
Chart Theming and Phase 3 Integration	2026-06-17	decided	No parsing layer for charts; no Vega-Lite adoption; unified brand config (docs + charts sections) for Phase 3 theme system
Grid Data Size Cap	2026-07-03	decided	Post-fetch response-size check (not pre-fetch cell-count estimate) for get_sheet_data(include_grid_data=True); configurable cap + local_path bypass; empirically falsified two earlier approaches