vault-decision

vault-decision is a skill for Claude Code from Evanciel/stellavault. It costs 56 tokens per session (342 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for recording and finding architecture decisions in a Stellavault vault. An architecture decision record, or ADR, explains what was chosen and why.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search past decisions or draft and, after approval, log one decision with its rationale and rejected alternatives.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning behind technical choices so later sessions can look it up instead of guessing.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the stellavault plugin — 3 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to search past decisions or draft and, after approval, log one decision with its rationale and rejected alternatives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/evanciel/stellavault/vault-decision
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Evanciel/stellavault --skill vault-decision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Evanciel/stellavault

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install stellavault, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 342 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 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 $0.00056 $0.00342
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00171
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00034

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1c4a10987d65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vault-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 9d 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.

plugins/stellavault/skills/vault-decision/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Decision journal (ADR)

Record decisions with their why, so future sessions can answer "why is it like this?" from the vault instead of guessing.

Look up a past decision

Call find-decisions with the topic. Present matches as: decision — rationale — date — [[source note]]. If nothing matches, fall back to search before concluding it was never recorded.

Log a new decision

  1. Extract the three parts from the conversation. If any is missing, ask one short question — do not invent:
    • Decision — what was chosen ("Use X instead of Y")
    • Rationale — why (the non-obvious reason; failures/constraints count)
    • Alternatives — what was rejected and why
  2. Check find-decisions first so you extend rather than duplicate an existing ADR on the same topic.
  3. Show the draft to the user and get a yes before writing — one compact block: title / decision / rationale / alternatives.
  4. On approval, call log-decision with the finalized text. Confirm with the created note reference.

Rules

  • Never log without explicit user approval of the exact text.
  • One decision per entry — split compound decisions.
  • Write in the user's language; keep technical identifiers (library names, versions) verbatim.
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. 9d ago First seen · 29 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 1c4a10987d65

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vault-decision is a skill published in the GitHub repository Evanciel/stellavault (4 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 342 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.