respecting-adrs

respecting-adrs is a skill for Claude Code from AInsteinsBR/renata. It costs 71 tokens per session (861 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-coding check for the project's accepted ADRs. ADRs, or architecture decision records, document important structural choices and how the project enforces them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before proposing a technical solution, choosing a library, writing code, or implementing a feature; it checks the ADR index and relevant decision and enforcement sections.
Why use it?
It prevents a proposed design or implementation from contradicting decisions the project has already accepted. If a structural choice conflicts with an ADR, it requires a new decision instead of silently bypassing the old one.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the renata plugin — 3 skills, 33 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before proposing a technical solution, choosing a library, writing code, or implementing a feature; it checks the ADR index and relevant decision and enforcement sections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ainsteinsbr/renata/respecting-adrs
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AInsteinsBR/renata --skill respecting-adrs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AInsteinsBR/renata

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install renata, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 33 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 861 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 $0.00071 $0.00861
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00086

Measured 10d ago against content hash 27147342f2ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

respecting-adrs 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 10d 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.

skills/respecting-adrs/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Respecting ADRs before coding

ADRs (docs/decisions/ADR-*.md) are the project's structural decisions with status accepted. Every technical proposal must respect them — a violation requires opening a new superseding ADR, not bypassing them.

When this skill activates

Auto-activates when the context involves:

  • "Implement X"
  • "I'm going to write / code / create"
  • "Which library to use"
  • "How do I Y in [language/framework]"
  • "Refactor to use Z"
  • Proposing a diff/PR

Procedure (4 steps)

Step 1 — List the relevant accepted ADRs

Run this mentally: "Which ADRs in this project might have something to say about what I'm about to do?"

  • Always consult docs/decisions/README.md (the index).
  • If the proposal touches: database → ADR about persistence; auth → ADR about auth; external libraries → ADR about the stack; etc.
  • If there is no ADR on the topic but the decision is structural → open an ADR first (/adr).

Step 2 — Validate the proposal against each identified ADR

For each relevant ADR:

  1. Read the "Decision" and "Enforcement" sections.
  2. Confirm that the proposal does not contradict the decision.
  3. If the ADR has a hook (.claude/rules.yaml), make sure your code won't be blocked by it.

Step 3 — If there's a conflict, STOP

Don't code. Options:

  • Refine the proposal to respect the ADR (most common).
  • Open a new ADR superseding the old one, if the old decision really is wrong (use /adr).
  • Ask the user for clarification if the conflict isn't clear.

NEVER work around the hook or use a silent workaround.

Step 4 — Cite the ADR in the commit/PR

When implementing, mention the relevant ADR:

feat(providers): ClienteRepo em providers/impl (ADR-007 adapter pattern)

Examples

✅ Good

User: "I'm going to add a cache lib to the worker to store responses."

Skill activates: "Before coding, I'll consult the ADRs. ADR-004 defines technology X for path A, OK. But this cache is a different kind (key-value) and ADR-004 doesn't cover that use. I'll reuse the same infrastructure already available with a dedicated prefix. It doesn't violate ADR-004 or create a new structural decision (caching is an implementation detail)."

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 10d ago First seen · 85 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 27147342f2ac

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respecting-adrs is a skill published in the GitHub repository AInsteinsBR/renata (10 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 861 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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