kb-record-decision

kb-record-decision is a skill for Claude Code from olegvg/olegvg-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,553 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation tool that turns a completed project plan into one durable decision record in the project knowledge base. It keeps the original plan unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after shipping a project to record the problem, decisions, and affected areas in a `.kb/decisions/` file.
Why use it?
It preserves the important choices made during completed work without carrying over the plan’s day-to-day implementation details. This makes past decisions easier to find later.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the olegvg-skills plugin — 7 skills, 6 commands, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it after shipping a project to record the problem, decisions, and affected areas in a .kb/decisions/ file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/olegvg/olegvg-skills/kb-record-decision
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 olegvg/olegvg-skills --skill kb-record-decision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/olegvg/olegvg-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install olegvg-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 6 commands, 1 plugin.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,553 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 $0.00072 $0.01553
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00776
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00155

Measured 11d ago against content hash 423cb6f10979, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-record-decision 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 11d 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/kb-record-decision/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kb-record-decision — Record Shipped Decisions from Completed Plans

When to use

A plan in docs/plans/<timestamp>/plan-<slug>.md (or similar) is complete — the work shipped, the checklist is ticked, the code reflects the decisions made. The user wants the durable choices preserved in the KB without carrying the operational noise of the plan itself.

Manual, on-demand. Never automatic. Never invoked by build.

Input

  • Plan path — path to a completed plan file or its containing directory. If missing, ask.

Output

  • One decision record at .kb/decisions/<YYYY-MM-slug>.md. That is the only file this skill writes.
  • The source plan is left untouched. Never modify docs/plans/.
  • The summaries listed in the record's ## Affected areas block are not edited — they remain the agent's view of the present, the decision-record carries the link to them, not the other way around. kb-query reaches a decision via that backreference (grep -l "<summary-path>" .kb/decisions/).

Workflow

1. Read the plan

Read <plan-path>. If a sibling checklist-*.md exists, read that too. Extract:

  • What problem the plan was solving.
  • What decision was made.
  • What alternatives were considered and rejected.
  • Which parts of the codebase / KB the decision affects.

For plans larger than ~1500 lines, do not read the whole file — see references/large-plan-strategy.md.

2. Confirm the plan is complete

Before recording, verify:

  • Checklist items are all ticked (if a checklist exists): grep -c '^- \[ \]' <checklist-path> returns 0.
  • Git log shows commits implementing the plan have landed.

If neither holds, stop. See references/failure-modes.md for the "plan not yet complete" path.

3. Draft the decision record

Use the shape and field rules in references/decision-template.md. Required fields:

  • DateYYYY-MM only.
  • Slugkebab-case, derived from the plan filename.
  • Decision — one or two sentences.
  • Context — 2–5 sentences.
  • Alternatives considered — one line per rejection.
  • Consequences — what changes.
  • Affected areas.kb/summaries/<area>/<leaf>.md paths this decision shapes. This list is the only linkage between the record and the summaries it affects.
  • Source plan — path to the original plan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 11d ago First seen · 124 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 423cb6f10979

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kb-record-decision is a skill published in the GitHub repository olegvg/olegvg-skills (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,553 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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