decision-records

decision-records is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arch3rPro/dsh-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (1,025 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to record important software design choices as Architecture Decision Records, or ADRs. An ADR explains the decision, the alternatives rejected, its consequences, and whether it is proposed, accepted, implemented, or rejected.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps document decisions about features, bug fixes, simplification, architecture, processes, testing, contracts, and data formats.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning behind a change so future contributors can understand it without reopening the same debate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the dsh-skills plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps document decisions about features, bug fixes, simplification, architecture, processes, testing, contracts, and data formats.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arch3rpro/dsh-skills/decision-records
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 arch3rPro/dsh-skills --skill decision-records
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arch3rPro/dsh-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dsh-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,025 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 $0.00090 $0.01025
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00103

Measured 10d ago against content hash feae7f05a749, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-records 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/process/decision-records/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Records

An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) captures the why and what we gave up behind a design decision — the parts code and docs cannot carry. This skill covers where records live, when to write one, and the in-file structure. It applies to any project that wants its rationale to outlive the change.

The defining constraint: an ADR records a decision — the alternatives it beat and the consequences it accepted — not a transcript of how the decision was reached. A decision without its rejected alternatives invites re-litigation.

Layout and lifecycle

Every record has two axes:

  • Lifecycle — its status, which changes over time:
    • proposed — not yet built (or only partly); the plan and open questions live here.
    • accepted / implemented — the decision shipped; the file describes shipped reality in the present tense and is kept current with what actually shipped (facts — paths, names, structure — not the decision itself).
    • rejected — considered and declined; keep it only while its rationale prevents a tempting, meaningful mistake.
  • Class — the kind of decision (feature, bug-fix, simplification, architecture, process, testing). Pick the class folder that matches.

A record moves between lifecycle folders as its status changes; the move updates the status line and the body's form in the same change.

When to write one

Write (or update) an ADR when a change is non-trivial: it alters behavior, architecture, a contract shared across files or modules, process or tooling, testing strategy, an on-disk/wire/config format, or another decision a maintainer may reasonably revisit. A purely mechanical or local edit with no behavior/contract/structure change is exempt.

Never edit a record into a different decision. Supersede it with a new one and keep both cross-linked, unless the old one is fully superseded and can be consolidated into the new owner.

The in-file structure

Every record opens with the decision's problem — written to stand without the solution. What follows depends on the lifecycle:

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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 · 61 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A feae7f05a749

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decision-records is a skill published in the GitHub repository arch3rPro/dsh-skills (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,025 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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