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Use Case

Preventing Architectural Drift

Lint strategy like code. Catch violations before they reach production.

You lint your code. You lint your styles. Why not lint your strategy? Arbtr's strategic linter enforces architectural decisions in CI/CD, catching drift before it becomes technical debt. Think of it as ESLint for your architecture.

The Challenge

Why this problem keeps coming back—and why it's so hard to solve.

Intent vs. Implementation

Architectural decisions get made, documented, and then... ignored. Implementations drift from intent without anyone noticing.

Code Review Bottleneck

Senior engineers become the only line of defense against drift. They can't review every PR, and violations slip through.

Delayed Discovery

Drift is usually discovered months later during a production incident or major refactor. By then, the cost to fix is enormous.

How Arbtr Solves This

Strategic Linting

Define rules that enforce architectural decisions. PRs that violate decisions get flagged automatically in CI/CD.

Decision-Aware Code Review

Link decisions to code paths. Reviewers see relevant decisions right in the PR, not buried in a wiki.

Automated Enforcement

Block merges that violate critical decisions. Configurable severity lets you warn on minor violations and block on major ones.

GitHub/GitLab Integration

Native integration with your existing workflow. No new tools to learn—enforcement happens where developers already work.

The Workflow

How teams use Arbtr to solve this problem, step by step.

1

Define architectural decisions

Capture decisions with clear scope and applicability. Specify which code paths, services, or patterns each decision governs.

2

Configure enforcement rules

Set up strategic linting rules that check PRs against relevant decisions. Choose warn, block, or require-approval severity.

3

Integrate with CI/CD

Add Arbtr to your GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Bitbucket Pipelines. Enforcement runs automatically on every PR.

4

Review and iterate

Dashboard shows enforcement trends. See which decisions are violated most often and adjust rules accordingly.

We had architectural decisions in Notion that nobody read. Now those same decisions block PRs when violated. Compliance went from 'nice to have' to 'can't merge without it'.
Adam Marsh
Founder, Arbtr

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