record-design-decisions

record-design-decisions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 50 tokens per session (869 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A repository-writing guide for recording changed terminology and lasting technical decisions in a project glossary and architecture decision log. An architecture decision log is a durable record of why important design choices were made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Documenting agreed technical terms and qualifying design decisions in project files.
Why use it?
It keeps the team’s vocabulary and design reasoning from being lost or rediscovered later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-code-advanced plugin — 30 skills shipped together

Good fit Documenting agreed technical terms and qualifying design decisions in project files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/record-design-decisions
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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill record-design-decisions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-code-advanced, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 869 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00050 $0.00869
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00434
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00087

Measured 5d ago against content hash a5503bd2dc0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

record-design-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 5d 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.

plugins/odin-code-advanced/skills/record-design-decisions/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Record design decisions

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Codebase terminology or a durable technical decision changes.
Authority Reversible local writes only; no remote, credential, paid, or deployed mutation.
Side effect Immediate glossary (CONTEXT) and ADR writes to the repository.
Done Every resolved term and qualifying decision is recorded.

Refusals

  • No recordable content: if no terminology change or qualifying decision is present, do not write anything. Stop.
  • Invalid target: if the target path is outside the repository root, stop rather than write. A path outside the repository root is a trust violation and halts the whole skill.
  • Unavailable ADR directory: if the ADR directory does not exist and cannot be created, do not halt the whole skill. Record the terminology change if present, skip the ADR, and return non-converged (see Failure and recovery).
  • Untrusted input in records: rejected. Validate each write at its trust boundary.

Inputs

  • Changed term or decision (required): the term or decision that triggered invocation.
  • Resolution context (required): what was agreed, chosen, or ruled out.
  • Rejected alternatives (optional, but required for a qualifying decision): alternatives considered and why they were rejected.
  • ADR triple (required for a qualifying decision): three affirmative answers confirming that the decision is hard to reverse, surprising without context, and carries a real trade-off.

Procedure

  1. Identify the changed term or decision from the invocation context. Done when: the change is named.
  2. Determine whether the change is a terminology resolution, an ADR-qualifying decision, or both. Done when: the change type is classified.
  3. For terminology changes: write the resolved term to CONTEXT.md using assets/CONTEXT-FORMAT.md. Done when: the CONTEXT entry is written.
  4. For qualifying decisions: write an ADR to docs/decisions/ using assets/ADR-FORMAT.md. Done when: the ADR file is written.
  5. Validate each write at its trust boundary: check the target file or directory is within the repository root and that the content does not contain untrusted input. Done when: every write passes validation.
  6. Write the records before the session continues. Done when: all records are persisted.
  7. Stop if no term resolves and no decision qualifies. Do not invent content. Done when: the procedure has stopped with blocked:no-recordable-content or all records are written.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 5d ago First seen · 51 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A a5503bd2dc0c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

record-design-decisions is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 869 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.

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