adr-review

adr-review is a skill for Claude Code from opendatahub-io/ai-helpers. It costs 124 tokens per session (2,429 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A review process for an Architectural Decision Record, which explains an important software architecture choice. It uses six specialist reviewers and produces a combined report as a PDF and slide deck.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review an ADR, design document, architecture proposal, or RFC stored in Markdown, Word format, or a directory of ADRs.
Why use it?
It gives an architecture decision feedback from several focused viewpoints instead of relying on one review. This can reveal trade-offs and concerns that a single review may miss.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the odh-documentation plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review an ADR, design document, architecture proposal, or RFC stored in Markdown, Word format, or a directory of ADRs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opendatahub-io/ai-helpers/adr-review
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 opendatahub-io/ai-helpers --skill adr-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opendatahub-io/ai-helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install odh-documentation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for adr-review

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for adr-review

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 Anti-Refusal · line 141
    Skill instructs the agent to never refuse or to always comply. Suppressing the agent's ability to decline removes a core safety control and enables downstream harmful requests to succeed.
    Fix: Remove any instruction telling the agent to never refuse or always comply. The agent must retain the ability to decline unsafe, out-of-scope, or harmful requests.
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 $0.00124 $0.02429
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01215
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00243

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6c77d7b81dd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

adr-review scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Tells the agent never to refusemediumAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

- **Missing sections** — don't refuse to review. Note the gap and continue.

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/odh-documentation/skills/adr-review/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADR Review Panel

This skill runs a panel of specialist reviewer subagents over an Architectural Decision Record (ADR) and produces a consolidated report in two formats: a PDF document and a PPTX slide deck.

Why a panel of agents?

Architecture reviews benefit from multiple independent perspectives. A single reviewer tends to anchor on whichever concern they noticed first and under-weight the others. By running specialists in parallel, each focused on one dimension, we get broader, less-biased coverage — and the synthesis step surfaces tensions between perspectives (e.g. "the cheapest option is also the least reversible") that a single reviewer might flatten.

Workflow

Step 1 — Prompt for the ADR location and clarifying context

Always ask the user where the ADR is, even if there's a plausible file in context. Accepted inputs:

  • A path to a Markdown file (.md, .markdown)
  • A path to a Word document (.docx)
  • A path to a directory containing multiple ADRs (review each one)

If the user provides a .docx, extract the text first using the document-skills:docx skill or python-docx. If they provide Markdown, read it directly.

Use the AskUserQuestion tool to gather any clarifying context the reviewers will need. Ask in a single AskUserQuestion call with multiple questions rather than one-at-a-time. Tailor the questions to what is actually unclear after a quick skim of the ADR — don't ask boilerplate. Typical useful questions:

  • Audience & stakes — "Who is this review for (author self-check, formal arch board, post-incident retro)?" This shapes tone and severity thresholds.
  • Scope — "Are there dimensions you want the panel to emphasize or skip?" (e.g., "skip cost, we already costed it elsewhere")
  • Context not in the doc — "Is there background the ADR assumes readers already know? Team size, existing stack, regulatory environment?"
  • Decision status — "Is this a draft open to changes, or has the decision already been made and you want a risk audit?"
  • Known concerns — "Anything you're already worried about that you want the panel to focus on?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 12d ago First seen · 154 lines · 124 tokens per session scan B 6c77d7b81dd0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adr-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository opendatahub-io/ai-helpers (37 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 2,429 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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