adr-creator

adr-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pantheon-org/tekhne. It costs 64 tokens per session (2,495 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating Architecture Decision Records, or short documents that record an important technical choice, its context, and its consequences. It also keeps track of when one decision replaces another.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps start an ADR log, create and list decision records, and mark an earlier decision as superseded by a new one.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning behind past technical decisions so future developers do not have to reconstruct it from code or conversations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps start an ADR log, create and list decision records, and mark an earlier decision as superseded by a new one.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pantheon-org/tekhne/adr-creator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pantheon-org/tekhne --skill adr-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pantheon-org/tekhne

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,495 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
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 10
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00064 $0.02495
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01247
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00249

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7e4e9b299cdd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr-creator 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check-undocumented-decisions.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/documentation/adr-creator/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Authoring Architecture Decision Records

Mindset

An ADR is a dated, immutable record of one decision and the forces that shaped it, not living documentation. Its value is archaeological: a reader six months from now must understand why a choice was made without asking anyone. Once accepted, an ADR is never edited to change its meaning. When the decision changes, you write a new ADR and mark the old one superseded, preserving the chain of reasoning.

Two rules make an ADR log trustworthy over time. First, numbering is append-only and gap-tolerant: the next number is always max(existing) + 1, never a count of files, so deleting or archiving a record never reuses an identifier. Second, status is the only mutable field: an accepted decision's Context and Decision text are frozen; only its Status flips to Superseded when a later ADR replaces it. The adr CLI enforces both rules, which is why you should reach for it rather than hand-writing files that drift from the template.

Treat the template's section order as a contract. Downstream tooling and reviewers scan for ## Context, ## Decision, and ## Consequences in that order. Reordering or renaming them breaks that expectation even when the prose is good.

Prerequisites

This skill drives the pantheon-adr CLI and is distributed by it (pantheon-adr skill install). Every step below invokes that binary, so it must be on PATH. Confirm before proceeding:

pantheon-adr --version

If it is not found, the skill was installed without its companion CLI. Install the pantheon-adr CLI (its release binary, or cargo install) and retry; there is no self-contained fallback for these commands.

When to Use

  • The user asks to record, write, or draft an architectural or technical decision.
  • A significant, hard-to-reverse choice was just made (framework, data store, protocol, boundary) and needs a durable rationale.
  • An earlier decision is being replaced and the old record must be marked superseded while keeping its history.
  • A repository needs an ADR log bootstrapped under docs/adr.
  • A decision already exists in an existing planning or review document (a design doc, a review, a retrospective) and needs to be captured as an ADR after the fact, rather than authored fresh — see Deriving an ADR from an Existing Document.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. 8d ago First seen · 163 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 7e4e9b299cdd

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adr-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository pantheon-org/tekhne (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,495 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 2026-09-03.

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