adr-criteria

A set of rules for deciding when a change needs an architecture decision record (ADR), a short document that explains an important design choice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing changes to APIs, command-line tools, data formats, defaults, backends, error handling, safety rules, or compatibility policies.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a consistent way to distinguish required design documentation from changes that only need a recommendation or no record.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/harumiweb/exstruct/adr-criteria
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harumiWeb/exstruct
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,397 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.01397
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00698
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00140

Measured 3d ago against content hash e25aa7fdd51b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr-criteria 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 3d 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.

dev-docs/agents/adr-criteria.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADR decision criteria

This document defines the criteria AI agents use to classify a change as required, recommended, or not-needed.

Decision levels

required

An ADR is required when any of the following apply:

  • The contract or meaning of the public API, CLI, or MCP changes
  • The meaning, requiredness, or omission policy of output JSON / YAML / TOON changes
  • A default changes semantic contract, such as default omit vs default include
  • Mode responsibility boundaries or validation contracts change
  • The way the same constraints are aligned across API / CLI / engine / MCP entry points changes
  • Backend addition, removal, priority, or fallback policy changes
  • Runtime-failure handling, reason codes, log consistency, or return-shape combinations change
  • A safety boundary such as PathPolicy changes
  • Backward-compatibility policy changes
  • Patch/edit backend capabilities or selection policy changes

recommended

Changes that are likely to contain design decisions, but do not always require an ADR.

  • Large revisions to the testing system
  • Reorganization of error-handling policy
  • Addition or replacement of a major dependency
  • Changes to the basic strategy for performance optimization
  • Turning operational flows or AI-agent procedures into permanent rules

not-needed

ADR not needed because the change is not a policy-level change.

  • typo fixes
  • internal refactors with unchanged behavior
  • wording cleanup that does not change the contract
  • simple test additions that do not change design intent
  • bug fixes that only restore the contract already defined by existing ADRs / specs / tests

ExStruct-specific must-check areas

For the following areas, treat ADR-required as the first candidate as soon as a change appears.

Area Typical example Existing references
extraction mode changing responsibilities of light / libreoffice / standard / verbose ADR-0001, dev-docs/specs/excel-extraction.md
backend fallback changing fallback contracts for COM / LibreOffice / future backends ADR-0002
serialization contract changing metadata omission/inclusion or schema meaning ADR-0003, docs/api.md, docs/cli.md
patch backend policy changing selection or constraints for auto / com / openpyxl ADR-0004, docs/mcp.md
safety boundary changing path allow ranges, normalization, or output-location rules ADR-0005, docs/mcp.md
compatibility policy changing preservation or break conditions for backward compatibility existing ADR or a new ADR target

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 3d ago First seen · 140 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e25aa7fdd51b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adr-criteria is an agent published in the GitHub repository harumiWeb/exstruct (196 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,397 tokens. 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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