Kora CLI: Decisions

1. Decision Log

Date	Decision	Rationale	Decided By
2026-04-01	Name: Kora	West African 21-string instrument — one instrument, many strings, one musician. Meaningful, short, memorable.	Evan Rosado
2026-04-01	Language: Go	Single binary distribution, Cobra CLI framework with ? discovery, massive ecosystem, cross-platform	Evan Rosado
2026-04-01	Keep netapi private, Kora public	netapi is battle-tested private codebase. Kora is clean-room public product with fresh architecture.	Evan Rosado
2026-04-01	Security: no --password flag	Credentials must never appear in shell history. Keyring, env vars, or interactive TTY only.	Evan Rosado
2026-04-01	Apache-2.0 license	Permissive for commercial use. Same as netapi, Kubernetes, Docker.	Evan Rosado

Date

Decision

Rationale

Decided By

2026-04-01

Name: Kora

West African 21-string instrument — one instrument, many strings, one musician. Meaningful, short, memorable.

Evan Rosado

2026-04-01

Language: Go

Single binary distribution, Cobra CLI framework with ? discovery, massive ecosystem, cross-platform

Evan Rosado

2026-04-01

Keep netapi private, Kora public

netapi is battle-tested private codebase. Kora is clean-room public product with fresh architecture.

Evan Rosado

2026-04-01

Security: no --password flag

Credentials must never appear in shell history. Keyring, env vars, or interactive TTY only.

Evan Rosado

2026-04-01

Apache-2.0 license

Permissive for commercial use. Same as netapi, Kubernetes, Docker.

Evan Rosado