create-adr

A tool for creating an Architectural Decision Record, or ADR: a document that explains an important technical choice and why it was made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document technology choices, design patterns, and other architectural decisions.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning behind architecture decisions so future developers can understand and revisit them.

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/codenamev/ai-software-architect/create-adr
Any agent
npx skills add codenamev/ai-software-architect --skill create-adr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codenamev/ai-software-architect

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,051 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00083 $0.01051
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00526
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00105

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1f55c9d8dfe3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-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 2d 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/create-adr/SKILL.md · 124 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 124 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 1f55c9d8dfe3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-adr is a skill published in the GitHub repository codenamev/ai-software-architect (76 stars, last pushed 13d ago), with no licence file. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,051 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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