documenting-decisions

documenting-decisions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bostonaholic/team. It costs 22 tokens per session (471 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A format for recording important software design decisions. An Architecture Decision Record, or ADR, explains the situation, the decision, the alternatives considered, and the results that may follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a significant technical choice, its context, the rejected options, and the benefits or costs expected from the decision.
Why use it?
It preserves why the codebase was designed a certain way, so future contributors do not have to reconstruct the reasoning from the code alone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the team plugin — 88 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/bostonaholic/team/documenting-decisions
Any agent
npx skills add bostonaholic/team --skill documenting-decisions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 88 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 471 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 5.1 $0.00022 $0.00471
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00235
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00047

Measured today against content hash f430f8654c19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documenting-decisions 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 today.

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/documenting-decisions/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documenting Decisions

An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) records an important technical choice, its context, alternatives, and consequences. Write at seventh-grade, STE-flavored level; call the Skill tool with writing-prose and apply ## Self-lint before finalizing.

ADR Format

# NNNN. Decision Title

## Status
Proposed | Accepted | Deprecated | Superseded by [NNNN](NNNN-title.md)

## Context
<Objective facts: problem, technical/business constraints, team capability, and timeline.>

## Decision
<Active-voice decision: “We will…”, never “It was decided that…”.>

## Consequences
<What becomes easier and harder; include positive and negative trade-offs.>

File Convention

Store ADRs under docs/decisions/ with zero-padded sequence names: 0001-use-typescript-for-plugin.md, 0002-agent-per-phase-architecture.md, 0003-file-based-state-management.md. Read existing files, increment the highest number, or start at 0001 when absent/empty.

When to Write an ADR

Write one when choosing among alternatives, accepting important trade-offs, breaking an established convention, or adding a long-lived dependency. For dependencies, record why it beat alternatives and the exit strategy.

Do not write one for an obvious choice, use of an established pattern, minor implementation details (names, variable scope, loop form), or a choice reversible in minutes without downstream effects.

Status rules

  • Proposed: open for discussion. Accepted: in effect; code must conform. Deprecated: retained after its subject disappears.
  • Superseded: link the successor as Superseded by [0007](0007-new-approach-to-state.md); the successor names the prior ADR in Context so navigation works both ways.

Writing rules

  • State specific facts and reasons; name rejected alternatives and why.
  • Record incomplete information so later readers know when to reconsider.
  • Keep it readable in under 5 minutes; implementation detail belongs in code or comments.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. today Changed · -75 lines · -16 tokens per session f430f8654c19
  2. 5d ago First seen · 124 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 3969755008cd

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documenting-decisions is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/team (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 471 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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