record-a-decision

record-a-decision is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from inkeep/open-knowledge. It costs 175 tokens per session (3,268 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A template and process for recording an architecture decision as an ADR under decisions/. An ADR is a short record of why a technical choice was made and what it means later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record an architecture choice, the options considered, its effects in both directions, and whether it replaces an earlier decision.
Why use it?
It preserves the context, alternatives, trade-offs, consequences, and links to earlier decisions instead of leaving them undocumented.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to record an architecture choice, the options considered, its effects in both directions, and whether it replaces an earlier decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/inkeep/open-knowledge/record-a-decision
About the project

OpenKnowledge is a markdown editor and local knowledge-base application for writing wikis, notes, specifications, and reports. People use it through desktop, web, or command-line interfaces to edit documents, search and link knowledge, and work with AI coding agents. The catalogue entries provide skills and instructions for using its knowledge-management and agent integrations.

inkeep/open-knowledge · 4,635 stars · on GitHub · openknowledge.ai

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 inkeep/open-knowledge --skill record-a-decision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,268 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
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.
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00175 $0.03268
Opus 5.5 $0.00070 $0.01307
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00654
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00327

Measured 5d ago against content hash c731a509217e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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 5d 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.

packages/server/assets/skills/packs/software-lifecycle/record-a-decision/SKILL.md · 189 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago Changed c731a509217e
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 189 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A 4ac8ceadfee7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

record-a-decision is a skill published in the GitHub repository inkeep/open-knowledge (4,635 stars, last pushed today), licensed GPL-3.0. 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 2026-08-30.

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