architecture-decision

architecture-decision is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davekilleen/Dex. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,146 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An architecture decision record, or ADR, for an important system or design choice. It explains the evidence, alternatives, trade-offs, and whether the decision is proposed, accepted, or superseded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review ADRs and compare the options and trade-offs behind system or design decisions.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning behind a technical choice so later reviewers can understand its context and history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to create or review ADRs and compare the options and trade-offs behind system or design decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davekilleen/dex/architecture-decision
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 davekilleen/Dex --skill architecture-decision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davekilleen/Dex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,146 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 $0.00036 $0.01146
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00573
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00115

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3d3819314978, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-decision 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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/_available/engineering/architecture-decision/SKILL.md · 111 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 6d ago Changed · +2 lines 3d3819314978
  2. 8d ago First seen · 109 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 0b41531a71c6

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architecture-decision is a skill published in the GitHub repository davekilleen/Dex (475 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,146 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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