adr

adr is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashtonian/llm-init. It costs 6 tokens per session (467 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A template and process for recording an important software design decision in a document called an Architecture Decision Record (ADR).

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss a design choice and create a numbered ADR in the project's documentation.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning, alternatives, and consequences behind a decision so future contributors can understand it instead of guessing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/ashtonian/llm-init/adr
Any agent
npx skills add ashtonian/llm-init --skill adr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashtonian/llm-init

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 6 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 467 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 $0.00006 $0.00467
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00047

Measured 4d ago against content hash 127617e66c44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr 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 4d 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.

templates/.claude/skills/adr/SKILL.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

Create an Architecture Decision Record (ADR) for a design choice.

Instructions

  1. Read existing ADRs in docs/spec/biz/ (files matching adr-*.md).

  2. Determine the next ADR number (e.g., adr-001, adr-002).

  3. Discuss the decision with the user:

    • What is the context? What forces are at play?
    • What options were considered?
    • What was decided and why?
    • What are the consequences (positive and negative)?
  4. Create the ADR at docs/spec/biz/adr-{NNN}-{slug}.md:

# ADR-{NNN}: {Title}

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **Status** | proposed / accepted / deprecated / superseded |
| **Date** | {date} |
| **Deciders** | {who was involved} |
| **Supersedes** | {ADR number, if applicable} |

## Context

{What is the issue that we're seeing that is motivating this decision or change?
What forces are at play (technical, business, organizational)?}

## Decision

{What is the change that we're proposing and/or doing?}

## Options Considered

### Option 1: {Name}
- **Pros**: {list}
- **Cons**: {list}
- **Effort**: {low/medium/high}

### Option 2: {Name}
- **Pros**: {list}
- **Cons**: {list}
- **Effort**: {low/medium/high}

## Consequences

### Positive
- {benefit 1}
- {benefit 2}

### Negative
- {tradeoff 1}
- {tradeoff 2}

### Risks
- {risk 1} -- mitigation: {how}

## Related
- {Links to specs, issues, other ADRs}
  1. Present the ADR to the user for review. Iterate until approved.
  2. Update docs/spec/.llm/PROGRESS.md with a note about the new ADR.

Decision Topic

$ARGUMENTS

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. 4d ago First seen · 75 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 127617e66c44

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adr is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashtonian/llm-init (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 467 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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