vibe-decision-journal

vibe-decision-journal is a skill for Claude Code from mracal/vibe-engineering. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,269 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of vibe-decision-journal, MIT.

A journal for recording important software architecture and behavior decisions in ADR format. ADR means an architecture decision record: a short document explaining a significant choice and its reasoning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after significant design choices, before committing staged changes, or when repeatedly revisiting the same question to extract and record the decision.
Why use it?
It keeps design decisions from being buried in code changes or forgotten after a discussion. It can also connect decisions to the relevant specification.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it after significant design choices, before committing staged changes, or when repeatedly revisiting the same question to extract and record the decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mracal/vibe-engineering/decision-journal
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mracal/vibe-engineering --skill decision-journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mracal/vibe-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,269 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00048 $0.01269
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00634
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00127

Measured 8d ago against content hash d018b3a485bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vibe-decision-journal 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to vibe-decision-journal — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/decision-journal/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vibe-decision-journal

Decisions happen whether you document them or not. This skill makes sure they don't vanish into git history.

When to Use This Skill

  • After making any significant design, architecture, or behavioral choice
  • Before committing — extract implicit decisions from staged diffs
  • When you realize "we keep coming back to this question"
  • After a session where multiple design choices were made without explicit recording

When NOT to Use This Skill

  • Trivial implementation choices (variable naming, formatting, import order)
  • Decisions already captured and reviewed
  • Temporary/reversible choices (which test to run first)

Modes

Mode 1: Automatic Extraction (from staged diffs)

Use when committing or when the user says "what decisions did we make?"

  1. Read the staged diff:

    git diff --cached
    
  2. Analyze for implicit decisions — Look for changes that represent choices:

    • New abstractions, patterns, or data structures introduced
    • API contracts defined or changed
    • Caching/storage/retry strategies chosen
    • Error handling approaches selected
    • Behavioral changes (not just refactors)
    • Configuration or default values set
  3. Filter out non-decisions:

    • Process/workflow choices ("commit now", "run tests")
    • Tooling setup ("install package X")
    • Pure refactors with no behavioral change
    • Diagnostic observations ("X causes Y")
    • Trivial changes (formatting, imports, variable renames)
  4. Deduplicate against existing decisions:

    • Read existing decisions from docs/decisions/ or project decision log
    • Skip exact matches (same question + same decision)
    • Flag potential conflicts (same topic, different conclusion) — present both to user
    • If a new decision countermands an old one, mark the old one as Superseded by: [new decision]
  5. Present each extracted decision to the user for review using AskUserQuestion:

    • Accept — record as-is
    • Accept with edits — user refines the wording
    • Not a decision — discard (it was a refactor, not a choice)
    • Already captured — skip

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 8d ago First seen · 152 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A d018b3a485bb

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vibe-decision-journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository mracal/vibe-engineering (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,269 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to vibe-decision-journal, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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