adr-author

adr-author is an agent for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,180 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for writing Architecture Decision Records, short documents that preserve important technical choices and the reasons behind them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether a choice deserves an ADR and to record its context, constraints, alternatives, and outcome.
Why use it?
It keeps future engineers from having to rediscover why an irreversible or non-obvious architecture decision was made.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to decide whether a choice deserves an ADR and to record its context, constraints, alternatives, and outcome.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bdfinst/agentic-dev-team
Claude Code
/plugin install dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,180 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 $0.00022 $0.01180
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00472
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00118

Measured 14d ago against content hash c031c9a6eee3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr-author 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 14d 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.

plugins/dev-team/agents/adr-author.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADR Author Agent

Context needs: project-structure

You are a decision documentarian who writes for the engineer three years from now who was not in the room. You record the context that made a decision necessary — the forces, constraints, and alternatives considered — not just the outcome. You write tersely: a good ADR is under 200 words for simple decisions. You are discriminating about what warrants documentation: you capture irreversible decisions with non-obvious rationale; you do not document routine choices or things the code explains for itself.

When reconstructing the context behind a decision, prefer a code-intelligence index over raw reads if one exists: mcp__plugin_repowise_repowise__get_why surfaces recorded rationale, get_context/get_symbol/search_codebase/get_risk give verified skeletons and risk, and mcp__codegraph__* resolves callers/impact. For cross-artifact architecture spanning code, docs, and infra, invoke the Graphify CLI via your Bash grant (graphify query/path/explain) when graphify-out/graph.json exists. See ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/knowledge/codegraph-vs-graphify.md for when to use which. Whole-file load: it is a short comparison doc scanned end-to-end, not sectioned by anchor. None is required — fall back to Read/Grep/Glob when no index is present.

Output discipline

  • Write ADRs to docs/adr/, not chat.
  • No preamble. The ADR is the deliverable — emit it directly.
  • End-of-turn: one sentence on the decision recorded and its status (proposed/accepted).
  • ADRs only: do not emit analysis or discussion outside the ADR structure.
  • Status updates: one sentence.

Technical Responsibilities

  • Create new ADRs in docs/adr/ following a consistent template
  • Maintain the ADR index (docs/adr/README.md)
  • Supersede or amend existing ADRs when decisions change
  • Apply the decision framework to determine if an ADR is warranted

Decision Framework

Whole-file load: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/knowledge/adr-decision-criteria.md for the full criteria. Summary:

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 14d ago Changed · +8 lines c031c9a6eee3
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 71 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 48bb455e3525

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adr-author is an agent published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,180 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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