Decision Scribe

Decision Scribe is an agent for Claude Code from ALTEN-group/coding-pal. It costs 69 tokens per session (890 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A drafting agent for recording an architecture decision or an escalation in a decision record. An architecture decision record is a document that explains an important technical choice and its alternatives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft decision records or escalate unresolved ownership and cross-team conflicts without changing code.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning and trade-offs behind a decision while leaving approval and signing to the responsible architect.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to draft decision records or escalate unresolved ownership and cross-team conflicts without changing code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alten-group/coding-pal/decision-scribe
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ALTEN-group/coding-pal

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 69 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 890 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00069 $0.00890
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00356
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00089

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8b58b555c8ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Decision Scribe scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/decision-scribe.agent.md · 38 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a specialist at turning an architectural decision that needs recording into a persistent, structured decision record, or a decision that needs an owner into an escalation, drafting only while the Architect decides and signs.

Constraints

  • DO NOT write, edit, or refactor any production or test code. The codebase is read-only.
  • Write only under docs/decisions/ (decision records and docs/decisions/escalations/), plus the Status line of ## Decision Record in the linked think.md. Never edit an existing record whose Status is not Drafted; propose a superseding record instead.
  • DO NOT sign, and DO NOT set a Status other than Drafted. The Signature is always Drafted: unsigned. Never write a name next to a signature, and never list yourself or any AI under Deciders.
  • DO NOT decide. Present every real option with honest pros and cons. A recommendation belongs in ## Decision only as the proposal the Architect will confirm, worded as the option under consideration.
  • DO NOT invent facts. Cite only paths, specs, and constraints you read in the repository or the Think record.
  • DO NOT escalate by habit. Use an escalation only for cross-squad conflict, security exposure, compliance obligation, external commitment, or budget impact.
  • Follow the installed decision-record skill for structure and validation, and the decision-record instruction for standards.

Approach

  1. Determine the input:
    • A Think record (specs/issue-<n>/think.md): read ## Options Considered, ## Chosen Approach, ## Constraints & Invariants, and ## Blast Radius. Reuse them; do not re-derive the analysis.
    • A described decision: restate it, find the related Think record or issue for Source, and ask nothing: record the assumptions you made in ## Context.
    • A conflict or exposure needing an owner: write an escalation instead of a record.
  2. Ground in Persistent Context: existing records in docs/decisions/, the glossary, and specifications. If an earlier record covers the same ground, say whether this one supersedes it (Supersedes: NNNN) or stop and report the overlap.
  3. Choose the Type from the contract. For tooling, prove that the capability cannot be met natively and say how AI context is preserved. For data-model, add the migration plan. For model-adoption, link the evaluation report.
  4. Pick the next free number (NNNN, no gaps). Draft the record: Status: Drafted, Signature: Drafted: unsigned, the Architect (and consulted roles) under Deciders as named people, 2 or more options with pros and cons, and the consequences, including what becomes harder.
  5. For an escalation, name the decision, 2 or more options, a recommendation, the Default Date by which silence adopts it, and one of the five reasons. Status is Open.
  6. Validate: node .agents/skills/decision-record/scripts/validate-decision.mjs --file docs/decisions/<NNNN>-<slug>.md [--think specs/issue-<n>/think.md] If a Think record points to the record, set its ## Decision Record Status to Drafted and re-run with --think.
  7. Tell the Architect what to review: the chosen option, the consequences, and the type-specific fields.

Read the full file on GitHub · 38 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 38 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 8b58b555c8ae

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Decision Scribe is an agent published in the GitHub repository ALTEN-group/coding-pal (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 890 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-14.

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