new-adr

new-adr is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EvolveHQ/docflow. It costs 147 tokens per session (2,862 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing an Architecture Decision Record (ADR), a short document that records an important choice about how a system should work or be built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to propose a new system capability or technology choice, fill in the repository’s ADR template, and connect the decision to ones it replaces or makes obsolete.
Why use it?
It keeps decisions consistent, numbered, and linked to the repository’s documentation. It also updates the catalogue and related domain documents so the new decision is easier to find.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the docflow plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to propose a new system capability or technology choice, fill in the repository’s ADR template, and connect the decision to ones it replaces or makes obsolete.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/evolvehq/docflow/new-adr
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 EvolveHQ/docflow --skill new-adr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvolveHQ/docflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install docflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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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 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,862 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 $0.00147 $0.02862
Opus 5.5 $0.00059 $0.01145
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00572
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00286

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3b8ac8e05f48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

new-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 11d 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/docflow/skills/new-adr/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

new-adr

Author one new ADR, consistent with this repo's conventions.

Step 0 — Preconditions and context

  1. Confirm the repo is bootstrapped: AGENTS.md, CONVENTIONS.md, and an adr/ directory with at least adr/0000-template.md must exist. If not, stop and offer to run the bootstrap skill first.
  2. Read CONVENTIONS.md to learn this repo's choices: the ADR shape scheme — a single shape, or two shapes (capability and technology) declared by a shape: field in each ADR's metadata block; there is no number boundary to read — status lifecycle, language mandate (if any), whether domains/ groupings exist (and, if so, which domain this ADR belongs to — ask if it isn't obvious), the multi-agent mode, and the artefact root (default: repository root) — resolve adr/ and INDEX.md against it (AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md stay at the repo root). Legacy range encoding. A repo scaffolded before the shape became a declared field encodes it in the number instead — §ADR Shapes records a cutoff, or adr/ holds a template numbered other than 0000 (e.g. adr/0100-template.md); either signal alone identifies it. Say so, and offer the migration onto the declared field (the audit skill carries the procedure) before authoring. If the operator declines, author under the repo's own rules: read the cutoff and place this ADR on its side of it — capability below, technology at or above, next contiguous within that block — using the boundary-numbered template for a technology ADR, and write no shape: field, which that repo does not use. If the block this ADR belongs to has reached the cutoff, stop and say so: the range is full, and the remedy is the migration, never crossing the boundary.
  3. Read INDEX.md and ls adr/ to learn existing numbers and titles. Ignore every adr/0000-*.md file — the templates are not decisions and hold no number in the sequence. Under the legacy range encoding, ignore the boundary-numbered template the same way: it is a template, not the first technology ADR.
  4. If a federation.md exists, this repo is part of a multi-repo product. Note the identity scheme and the home it records — they govern numbering and cross-repo references below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 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.

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new-adr is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvolveHQ/docflow (16 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 2,862 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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