adr-gather

adr-gather is a skill for Claude Code from GoogilyBoogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,168 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that gathers decisions and research into a structured context file for an Architecture Decision Record, a document explaining an important technical choice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare the input for an Architecture Decision Record from project decisions, research, and targeted answers.
Why use it?
It brings scattered decisions and research together and identifies unanswered questions before the record is written.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the architecture-docs plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare the input for an Architecture Decision Record from project decisions, research, and targeted answers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/googilyboogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools/adr-gather
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 GoogilyBoogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools --skill adr-gather
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GoogilyBoogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install architecture-docs, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,168 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 $0.00050 $0.02168
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01084
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00217

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4d51eafd2fbb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr-gather 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/architecture-docs/skills/adr-gather/SKILL.md · 270 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 270 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADR Context Gathering — Compiler Mode

Compile all context needed to write an Architecture Decision Record. In the full pipeline, this skill receives a decisions file (from adr-discuss) and a research file (from arch-research), merges them, fills any gaps with targeted questions, and produces the final context file that adr-generate consumes.

Can also run standalone — if no decisions file is provided, falls back to direct Q&A mode (compatible with v2 behavior).

Input

$ARGUMENTS — path to a decisions file, and optionally --research <path> for the research file.

Parse for:

  • Decisions pathdocs/context/decisions/<name>-decisions.md (first positional arg or detected from path)
  • Research path--research <path> pointing to the RESEARCH.md file
  • Topic — if no files provided, treated as a topic string for standalone mode

Source Integrity Rules

Every factual claim in the context file must be traceable to research performed in this session.

  1. Cite your work. When referencing code, patterns, conventions, or architectural details, cite the specific tool call that discovered it (file path + line number from Read, Grep result, Explore agent finding).
  2. Never reference prior Claude sessions or Claude memory. Do not use phrases like "from our previous conversation," "as we discussed before," "based on prior analysis." Each context file stands on its own.
  3. Assumptions are labeled, not hidden. If you lack evidence for a claim, label it explicitly in the Open Questions section.

Process

Human-in-the-loop: Never proceed past a decision point without user approval.

Mode Detection

Check if $ARGUMENTS points to a decisions file:

  • If YES → Compiler Mode (Phase 1-4 below)
  • If NO → Standalone Mode (Phase S1-S5 below)

Compiler Mode (with decisions + optional research)

Phase 1: Load Inputs

  1. Read the decisions file. Extract:
    • All D-XX decisions (User Decisions + Claude's Discretion)
    • Prior Constraints
    • Deferred Ideas
    • Open Questions

Read the full file on GitHub · 270 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. 9d ago First seen · 270 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 4d51eafd2fbb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adr-gather is a skill published in the GitHub repository GoogilyBoogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,168 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 2026-09-03.

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