adr-authoring

adr-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/agent-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,649 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for recording important architecture decisions: choices about how a software system is structured, including alternatives, consequences, and later changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write, review, track, and retire decision records throughout a system’s lifecycle.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning behind a decision so future developers can understand why the system was built that way.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to write, review, track, and retire decision records throughout a system’s lifecycle.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/agent-skills/adr-authoring
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 magnus919/agent-skills --skill adr-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin adr-authoring/plugin install adr-authoring after adding the marketplace above.

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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 1,649 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 Memory Poisoning · line 3
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
How audits are shown
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 $0.01649
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00825
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00165

Measured 5d ago against content hash 08292bc9ef80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr-authoring 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.

adr-authoring/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADR Authoring

Architecture Decision Records for capturing design rationale. ADRs supply the temporal dimension — decisions over time — that structure-only views (C4) miss.

Start with Repository Conventions

  1. Read the repository's agent instructions, contributing guide, ADR index, template, and a few recent records before drafting. Reuse the established location, numbering, headings, status vocabulary, approval process, and amendment policy.
  2. Treat this skill's layouts and templates as fallbacks only. Do not move, renumber, rename, or rewrite existing ADRs to fit the skill. If local conventions conflict, preserve the existing records and identify the specific conflict before changing the convention.
  3. If no convention exists, use a flat docs/adr/ directory, stable sequential identifiers, a small index, and a lightweight Nygard template (MADR when option analysis needs more structure). Read references/project-setup-guide.md only when establishing a new decision log.
  4. Read references/adr-to-pyramid-mapping.md only if the project already uses artifact pyramids or the user requests that organization. Index links can provide layered navigation without relocating canonical records.

Decision, Approval, and Evidence

Keep these three facts distinct, using the repository's existing fields or linked records:

  • Proposal: What is recommended, why, alternatives, consequences, and unresolved questions. A draft or recommendation is not an accepted decision.
  • Decision authority and scope: Who approved what, when, and for which environment or stage. Approval to experiment permits the bounded experiment; it does not establish production adoption. An accepted ADR may authorize only an experiment if that scope is explicit. Do not invent a decider, date, or broader approval.
  • Implementation evidence: Links to changes, checks, observed results, and remaining gaps. Acceptance does not prove implementation; passing a prototype check does not prove production readiness. Label a validation plan as planned until results exist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files 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. 5d ago Changed · -22 lines 08292bc9ef80
  2. 11d ago First seen · 131 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A a442eb6d4031

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adr-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (76 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,649 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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