architecture-decisions

architecture-decisions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A record of an important technical choice, including its context, alternatives, decision, and consequences. These records are commonly called Architecture Decision Records, or ADRs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a database, framework, protocol, vendor, or architecture. It creates numbered Markdown files that can be amended or replaced without erasing history.
Why use it?
It preserves why a decision was made after the original people and circumstances are forgotten. It also makes costly or difficult-to-reverse choices easier to revisit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it when choosing a database, framework, protocol, vendor, or architecture. It creates numbered Markdown files that can be amended or replaced without erasing history.

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Clone the repo
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,062 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
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Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00106

Measured 12d ago against content hash e7bfe3001fef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-decisions 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 12d 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/development/architecture-decisions/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Decisions

Purpose

Record why a decision was made, not just what was decided. Code shows the what. The context, the alternatives, and the constraints that made the choice correct at the time are otherwise lost within months.

When to Use

  • Choosing a database, framework, protocol, or vendor.
  • Adopting or abandoning an architectural pattern.
  • Making a decision that will be expensive to reverse.
  • Revisiting a decision someone made and nobody can explain.

Capabilities

  • ADR authoring in a consistent, greppable format.
  • Options analysis with honest trade-offs.
  • Superseding and amending existing decisions without rewriting history.

Inputs

  • The decision to be made and the forces acting on it.
  • The realistic options, including "do nothing".
  • Constraints: team, time, budget, compliance, existing systems.

Outputs

A numbered ADR in docs/adr/NNNN-short-title.md with:

  • Status: proposed, accepted, superseded by NNNN.
  • Context: the situation and the forces, written so a new hire understands them.
  • Decision: what was chosen, in the active voice.
  • Consequences: what becomes easier, what becomes harder, what is now hard to reverse.

Workflow

  1. State the forces — What is pushing on this decision? Latency, cost, team familiarity, compliance, an existing commitment. If there are no forces, there is no decision to record.
  2. List real options — Including the status quo. An ADR with one option is a justification, not a decision.
  3. Evaluate against the forces — Each option, against each force. The trade-offs should be visible in the table.
  4. Decide and state it plainly — "We will use PostgreSQL." Not "PostgreSQL was considered favorably."
  5. Write the consequences honestly — Especially the negative ones. An ADR with only upsides is marketing.
  6. Never delete an ADR — Supersede it. The old reasoning is what explains the old code.

Best Practices

  • One decision per record. If the title needs "and", split it.
  • Write for someone who joins in two years and has none of your context.
  • Include the numbers that drove the decision. "Cheaper" is not a reason; "$400/month vs $3,100/month at our volume" is.
  • Record decisions you rejected loudly, especially the popular ones. The next person will ask "why not Kafka?" — answer it once, in writing.
  • Keep them in the repository, in version control, next to the code they govern.
  • Status changes are edits to the old ADR; the reasoning is never rewritten.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 12d ago First seen · 111 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A e7bfe3001fef

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architecture-decisions is a skill published in the GitHub repository nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection (26 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,062 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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