architecture-decision-record-creator

architecture-decision-record-creator is a skill for Claude Code from bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills. It costs 91 tokens per session (3,757 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-SA-4.0.

A creator for Architecture Decision Records, or ADRs: short documents that explain an important technical choice, its reasons, and its consequences.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for recording technology choices, comparing alternatives, and documenting software architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It helps preserve why an architecture decision was made so future team members can understand it.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the fundamentals-of-software-architecture plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for recording technology choices, comparing alternatives, and documenting software architecture decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills/architecture-decision-record-creator
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 bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills --skill architecture-decision-record-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fundamentals-of-software-architecture, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,757 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 unknown 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 $0.00091 $0.03757
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01878
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00751
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00376

Measured 8d ago against content hash c5c274c544d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-decision-record-creator 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 8d 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.

books/fundamentals-of-software-architecture/skills/architecture-decision-record-creator/SKILL.md · 299 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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. 8d ago First seen · 299 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A c5c274c544d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architecture-decision-record-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills (35 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 3,757 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 2026-09-03.

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