adr

adr is a skill for Claude Code from musingfox/cc-plugins. It costs 141 tokens per session (2,441 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for managing Architecture Decision Records, or short documents that record important software design choices and their reasoning. It follows the MADR 4.0 format and checks links between decision records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, list, replace, retire, or audit decision records in a project.
Why use it?
It keeps architectural choices organized and makes their status, numbering, and references consistent. This helps teams find why a design was chosen and identify outdated links.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the adr plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to create, list, replace, retire, or audit decision records in a project.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add musingfox/cc-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install adr

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install adr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,441 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 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 $0.00141 $0.02441
Opus 5.5 $0.00056 $0.00976
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00488
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00244

Measured 10d ago against content hash 246dc1d97a00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr 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 10d 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/skills/adr/SKILL.md · 264 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 264 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADR Lifecycle Management

Manage Architecture Decision Records using MADR 4.0 format with full cross-reference consistency enforcement.

Directory Detection

Auto-detect the ADR directory by scanning (in order):

  1. docs/decisions/
  2. docs/adr/
  3. adr/
  4. decisions/

Use Glob: {docs/decisions,docs/adr,adr,decisions}/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.md

If no directory found and user wants to create an ADR, ask which location to use.

MADR 4.0 Format

Frontmatter

---
status: proposed
date: YYYY-MM-DD
decision-makers: ""
---

Status values: proposed | rejected | accepted | deprecated | superseded by [ADR-NNNN](file)

File Naming

  • Pattern: NNNN-kebab-case-title.md
  • 4-digit zero-padded number
  • Scan existing files to determine next number

Template

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/adr/references/madr-template.md for the full MADR 4.0 template.


Decision Warrant Test

An ADR earns its place only when all three conditions hold. One missing and the answer is: do not write one.

  1. Hard to reverse — changing your mind later carries a real cost.
  2. Confusing without context — a future reader will ask "why was it done this way?"
  3. A genuine trade-off existed — alternatives were actually on the table, and one was chosen for a stated reason.

Write ADRs sparingly. When a decision is borderline, it fails.

Where a failed decision goes instead:

  • Fails 1 or 2 — the decision is cheap to undo, or its reason is self-evident. No record needed; a plain doc if someone still wants it written down.
  • Fails 3 — nothing was ever weighed, so this is a constraint that must hold, not a choice that was made. Use spec.

Conditions adapted from mattpocock/skills domain-modeling (MIT).


Operations

1. Create New ADR

  1. Apply the Decision Warrant Test. If a condition fails, name which one, point to where the decision belongs instead, and stop — continue only if the user reaffirms. The bootstrap ADR in step 3 is exempt: it records the format itself, not a decision under review.
  2. Detect ADR directory (or ask user to choose if none exists)
  3. If this is the first ADR in the directory, create the bootstrap ADR first (see below)
  4. Scan existing [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.md files, determine next number
  5. Generate kebab-case filename from the title
  6. Read the template from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/adr/references/madr-template.md and apply with today's date
  7. Search existing ADR titles for keyword overlap and suggest related ADRs
  8. Present the created file path

Read the full file on GitHub · 264 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago Changed · -44 lines 246dc1d97a00
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +38 lines · +102 tokens per session 8b373e9185a7
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -1 lines · -15 tokens per session 383eb1ef3831
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 271 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b438b0d8f790

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adr is a skill published in the GitHub repository musingfox/cc-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 2,441 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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