Getting Started with SARA: Requirements as Code

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In complex organizations, requirements and architecture documents are often scattered across teams, tools, and repositories. Keeping everything aligned is a constant struggle. What if your requirements could live as plain Markdown files in Git, versioned, reviewed, and interconnected like code?

That’s exactly what SARA does.

SARA (Solution Architecture Requirement for Alignment) is a command-line tool that manages architecture documents and requirements as an interconnected knowledge graph. No databases, no servers, no subscriptions. Just Markdown files with YAML frontmatter and a powerful CLI to validate, query, and report on them.

Introducing SARA: Requirements traceability for the modern age

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Throughout my career in embedded systems, I’ve watched teams struggle with the same problem over and over: requirements traceability.

You know the drill: ASPICE audits, CMMI assessments, ISO 26262 compliance, etc. Everyone needs traceability, and the options are always the same: expensive enterprise tools like DOORS that feel like they were designed in another era, or JIRA-based workarounds that integrate poorly with actual code and slow everything down.

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Getting Started with SARA: Requirements as Code

Introducing SARA: Requirements traceability for the modern age