recording-architecture-decisions

recording-architecture-decisions is a skill for Claude Code from GanyuanRan/Aegis. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,321 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing and maintaining architecture decision records (ADRs), which document important technical choices and their reasons, plus the resulting system baseline.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, update, replace, or assess ADRs and decision logs, or to synchronize the documented baseline after architecture-changing work.
Why use it?
It helps teams keep the reasons for lasting architecture changes and the system’s current state from getting lost or out of sync.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the aegis plugin — 22 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to create, update, replace, or assess ADRs and decision logs, or to synchronize the documented baseline after architecture-changing work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ganyuanran/aegis/recording-architecture-decisions
About the project

Aegis is a method pack that guides coding agents to inspect a project's baseline, make bounded changes, and verify their work with fresh evidence. It is for people using coding-agent hosts who want fewer unverified changes and less unnecessary process. The catalogue add-ons implement this method through skills, instructions, commands, a hook, and a plugin.

GanyuanRan/Aegis · 1,178 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add GanyuanRan/Aegis --skill recording-architecture-decisions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GanyuanRan/Aegis

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aegis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,321 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00048 $0.01321
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00660
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00132

Measured 11d ago against content hash 188c32797305, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recording-architecture-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 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.

skills/recording-architecture-decisions/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recording Architecture Decisions

Purpose

Record durable architecture decisions without losing the current-state baseline closure. An ADR records why a decision was made; a baseline records what the architecture is after that decision.

This skill is a lazy, task-specific workflow. It does not replace verification-before-completion, does not grant completion authority, and does not make authoritative GateDecision or PolicySnapshot outputs.

Required Read Set

Before deciding or writing, read the smallest relevant excerpts from:

  • docs/adr/ADR-CREATION-GATE.md
  • docs/current/AEGIS_ADR_AUTO_BACKFILL.md
  • the target project's current ADR, baseline, or authority docs that own the affected architecture surface

For Aegis repository changes, use this repository's docs/adr/ and docs/current/ authority order. For target projects with their own ADR system, respect that project owner instead of duplicating the same decision into docs/aegis/adr/.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user asks to:

  • create, write, update, amend, supersede, or evaluate an ADR
  • decide whether an architecture decision record is needed
  • record a durable architecture decision or decision log entry
  • close baseline sync after an ADR-relevant architecture change
  • verify that an ADR action did not leave the architecture baseline stale

Do not use it for simple wording edits, ordinary README cleanup, tests-only coverage improvements, low-risk single-file changes, or bug fixes that only restore the existing baseline.

Decision Flow

  1. Identify the decision candidate and evidence source.
  2. Run the ADR creation gate:
    • hard to reverse
    • surprising without context
    • real trade-off
  3. Apply the Retro / Memory Filter:
    • executed durable decisions may become ADR or baseline memory
    • unexecuted ideas stay out of accepted architecture memory
    • process notes may use a lighter record when they do not change current architecture state
  4. Choose exactly one ADR action: create, amend, supersede, or skip.
  5. Choose the owner surface: project docs/adr/, docs/aegis/adr/, existing ADR, or lighter record.
  6. Run Baseline Sync Closure.
  7. If writing files, preserve local ADR conventions and verify structure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 156 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 188c32797305

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recording-architecture-decisions is a skill published in the GitHub repository GanyuanRan/Aegis (1,178 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,321 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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