adr-manager

adr-manager is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JansenAnalytics/claudex. It costs 59 tokens per session (504 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for recording Architecture Decision Records, or short documents explaining important technical choices and their tradeoffs. It can also list, view, search, and update those records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing an architecture or tool, accepting a technical tradeoff, or investigating why an existing project uses a particular approach.
Why use it?
It keeps the reasoning behind design decisions available, so future contributors do not have to reconstruct it from old discussions or code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jansenanalytics/claudex/adr-manager
Any agent
npx skills add JansenAnalytics/claudex --skill adr-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JansenAnalytics/claudex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 504 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00059 $0.00504
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00252
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00050

Measured 4d ago against content hash e81e35314ce5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr-manager 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 4d 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/adr-manager/SKILL.md · 68 lines

What it actually says

ADR Manager Skill

Use when: making a non-trivial technical decision — choosing between options, committing to an architecture, or accepting a tradeoff. Record it so future sessions don't have to guess.

Trigger: any time you make a design decision, choose between tools/approaches, or the user asks "why did we do it this way?"

Create an ADR

node ${ADR_MANAGER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/adr-manager}/adr.cjs new \
  --project <project-name> \
  --title "Decision title" \
  --context "Why this decision was needed" \
  --options "option1,option2,option3" \
  --decision "chosen-option" \
  --rationale "Why this option was chosen" \
  --tradeoffs "What we gave up and why it's acceptable"

List ADRs for a project

node ${ADR_MANAGER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/adr-manager}/adr.cjs list --project <name>

List all ADRs across all projects

node ${ADR_MANAGER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/adr-manager}/adr.cjs list

View an ADR

node ${ADR_MANAGER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/adr-manager}/adr.cjs view ADR-001 --project <name>
node ${ADR_MANAGER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/adr-manager}/adr.cjs search "query"

Update status

node ${ADR_MANAGER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/adr-manager}/adr.cjs status ADR-001 Superseded --project <name>

ADR files location

~/projects/<project>/.adr/ADR-NNN-<slug>.md

When to create an ADR

  • Choosing a database, language, or framework
  • Deciding between build vs. buy
  • Accepting a known tradeoff (e.g. no concurrency for simplicity)
  • Any decision the user or future-Kite might question later
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. 4d ago First seen · 68 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A e81e35314ce5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adr-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository JansenAnalytics/claudex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 504 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 2026-08-31.

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