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.
npx skills add inkeep/open-knowledge-skills --skill record-a-decisiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/inkeep/open-knowledge-skills/record-a-decision)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/inkeep/open-knowledge-skills/record-a-decision"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/inkeep/open-knowledge-skills/record-a-decision/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/inkeep/open-knowledge-skills/record-a-decision"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/inkeep/open-knowledge-skills/record-a-decision.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Anti-Refusal · line 188 Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00175 | $0.03268 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00070 | $0.01307 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00035 | $0.00654 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00327 |
Grade A, and why
record-a-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 26d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Record a decision — write an ADR under decisions/
The platform /open-knowledge skill still governs every markdown operation here (grounding, linking, the rule that OK's MCP tools own in-scope markdown); this skill layers ADR craft on top.
An Architecture Decision Record is a small, dated, frozen document that captures one decision, the forces that made it necessary, and what the team now has to live with. The value compounds over years: a reader who joins in three years should understand not just what was decided but why it was even a question. ADRs are frozen once accepted — you never rewrite one to change your mind, you supersede it with a new record and leave the old one standing as history. That supersedes chain is what separates an honest decision log from a pile of stale opinions.
Filenames are NNNN-title.md (zero-padded 4-digit sequence + kebab title). Status vocabulary: proposed / accepted / deprecated / superseded. Template id decision, body sections exactly ## Context, ## Decision, ## Consequences in that order.
Step 0 — Confirm a decision was actually MADE (HARD GATE)
An ADR records a decision; it does not make one. Before anything else, establish that a choice has been settled.
- If the user is still weighing options, comparing approaches, or asking "should we do X or Y?" — they do not have a decision yet. Stop and route them to the
/frame-a-proposalskill. A proposal is where options get explored and argued; an ADR is where the settled outcome gets recorded. Recording a decision the user has not made produces a fake record that misleads every future reader. - If the user says "we decided X" but you cannot tell what lost or why, ask one question: "What were the alternatives, and what made you pick this one?" An ADR with no rejected options is a press release, not a record.
- If the thing in question is whether the design itself is sound — not the record of it — hand off to
/review-a-design. This skill assumes the decision is sound; it captures it.
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.
- 26d ago Changed c731a509217e
- 2mo ago First seen · 189 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A 4ac8ceadfee7
record-a-decision is a skill published in the GitHub repository inkeep/open-knowledge-skills (17 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 3,268 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.
record-a-decision compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| record-a-decisioninkeep/open-knowledge-skills | Skill | 17 | 13d ago | MIT | A | 175 | Claude Code |
| claude-md-improveranthropics/claude-plugins-official | Skill | 47k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 82 | Claude Code |
| agent-platform-model-registrygoogle/skills | Skill | 24k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 60 | Claude Code, Codex |
| google-cloud-solution-agentic-analytics-spark-knowledge-cataloggoogle/skills | Skill | 24k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 132 | Claude Code, Codex |
| glance-canonical-layoutsandroid/skills | Skill | 10k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 56 | Claude Code |
| viteantfu/skills | Skill | 6.1k | 5d ago | MIT | A | 49 | Claude Code, Codex |
| twitter-readerhimself65/finance-skills | Skill | 3.5k | 6d ago | MIT | A | 110 | Claude Code |