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.
npx skills add ALTEN-group/coding-pal --skill decision-recordgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ALTEN-group/coding-palWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alten-group/coding-pal/decision-record)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alten-group/coding-pal/decision-record"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alten-group/coding-pal/decision-record/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alten-group/coding-pal/decision-record"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alten-group/coding-pal/decision-record.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00081 | $0.00801 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00032 | $0.00320 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00160 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00080 |
Grade A, and why
decision-record 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Decision Record
Produce deterministic decision records for the decisions the factory reserves for the Architect, and escalations that carry a date by which silence adopts the recommendation. AI drafts; the Architect decides and signs.
When to Use This Skill
- A Think record has
## Decision RecordwithRequired: yesand a record must be drafted for the Architect. - A decision (public contract, data model, security, new runtime or vendor, AI policy, model adoption, external tool) must be written down.
- A cross-squad conflict, security exposure, compliance obligation, external commitment, or budget impact needs an escalation.
- CI must gate
docs/decisions/for numbering, supersession, and signatures, or cross-checkthink.mdagainst its record. - A weekly job must list escalations whose Default Date has passed or is near.
Path resolution
Resolve references/ and scripts/ relative to this skill's install directory (the folder that contains this SKILL.md), not the consumer repository root or the current shell cwd. If the skill was installed under .agents/skills/decision-record/ or .claude/skills/decision-record/, use that base path.
Workflow
- Read
references/decision-record-contract.mdnow. It is the authoritative source for headings, fields, types, statuses, signatures, supersession, and escalations. The decision itself belongs to the Architect; scoping and drafting belong to the callingDecision Scribeagent or session. - Draft the record at
docs/decisions/<NNNN>-<slug>.mdwith the next free number. Status isDraftedand the signature isDrafted: unsigned. Never set another status or sign. - Validate with the deterministic script from this skill's directory. Treat a nonzero exit as invalid output and fix the file:
# One record, or an escalation
node scripts/validate-decision.mjs --file docs/decisions/0007-rbac-via-forge.md
# The whole directory: numbering, supersession, escalations
node scripts/validate-decision.mjs --dir docs/decisions
# Cross-check the Think record against its decision record
node scripts/validate-decision.mjs --file docs/decisions/0007-rbac-via-forge.md --think specs/issue-42/think.md
What ships with it
6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 54 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 9078e9db65d5
decision-record is a skill published in the GitHub repository ALTEN-group/coding-pal (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 801 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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