adr

adr is a skill for Claude Code from GiustoPiedimonte/agentic-engineering-marketplace. It costs 67 tokens per session (429 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An architecture decision record (ADR) writer for keeping a dated log of important technical choices and the reasons behind them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record decisions in docs/DECISIONS.md, review recent decisions, and link choices to related proposals.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from forgetting why a difficult-to-reverse decision was made and keeps the history from being silently rewritten.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the agentic-engineering plugin — 6 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to record decisions in docs/DECISIONS.md, review recent decisions, and link choices to related proposals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giustopiedimonte/agentic-engineering-marketplace/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 GiustoPiedimonte/agentic-engineering-marketplace --skill adr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GiustoPiedimonte/agentic-engineering-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 429 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 $0.00067 $0.00429
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00043

Measured 10d ago against content hash 50c3d7b6bfaf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 10d 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/agentic-engineering/skills/adr/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

/adr — record an architecture decision

Decisions are the answer to "why did we do X?". They live in a single append-only log so the reasoning survives long after the code changes.

$ARGUMENTS is the decision to record (or "review" to summarize recent ones).

Process

  1. Locate the log: docs/DECISIONS.md (create it if missing, with a one-line header stating the contract — see below).
  2. Find the next number: read existing ## ADR-NNN headers and increment. If multiple sessions may run concurrently, confirm the number isn't taken right before writing (number collisions are a known failure mode).
  3. Append one block using references/ADR_FORMAT.md. Never edit or delete an existing ADR — a changed decision is a NEW ADR that supersedes the old one (add **Supersedes:** ADR-XXX and note it on the old block only as a pointer).
  4. Keep it tight: one decision per block, dated, with rationale and consequences. This is a retrospective record of why, not a plan or a todo.
  5. Link it: if the decision came from a pitch, cross-link the pitch and ADR.

The log's header contract (write it once at the top of the file):

Append-only. One decision per block, dated, never edited. A revised decision is a new ADR that supersedes the old one. This is the authoritative record of why we decided things — not a plan, not a backlog.

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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 38 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 50c3d7b6bfaf

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adr is a skill published in the GitHub repository GiustoPiedimonte/agentic-engineering-marketplace (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 429 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 2026-08-30.

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