documentation-and-adrs

documentation-and-adrs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Plazmodium/odin-workflow. It costs 21 tokens per session (298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for recording why important software decisions were made, along with their alternatives, consequences, and operational details. An ADR is a short architectural decision record.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architectural, API, dependency, storage, security, and operational changes, and for behavior that future maintainers need to understand.
Why use it?
It preserves reasoning that code alone does not show and prevents future maintainers from having to rediscover past decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for architectural, API, dependency, storage, security, and operational changes, and for behavior that future maintainers need to understand.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plazmodium/odin-workflow/documentation-and-adrs
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 Plazmodium/odin-workflow --skill documentation-and-adrs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Plazmodium/odin-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 298 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 $0.00021 $0.00298
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00149
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1848ad20213f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documentation-and-adrs 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 7d 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.

agents/skills/workflow/documentation-and-adrs/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

documentation-and-adrs

When To Use

  • Making architectural, API, dependency, storage, security, or operational decisions.
  • Changing behavior future maintainers must understand.
  • A decision has meaningful tradeoffs.

Workflow

  1. Decide whether the audience needs inline comments, API docs, README updates, or an ADR.
  2. Document the context and decision, not just mechanics.
  3. Record alternatives considered and why they were rejected.
  4. Capture consequences, risks, and follow-up work.
  5. Keep docs close to the code or established docs location.
  6. Update docs in the same change when behavior changes.

Anti-Rationalization

Excuse Rebuttal
"The code is self-documenting." Code shows what; docs often need to explain why.
"We'll document after launch." Post-launch docs are frequently incomplete or forgotten.
"An ADR is too heavy." A short decision record is cheaper than rediscovering context.

Verification

  • Docs match current behavior.
  • Decision records include context, decision, alternatives, and consequences.
  • No stale or contradictory docs remain in touched areas.

Exit Criteria

  • Future maintainers can understand the reason and safe use of the change.
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. 7d ago First seen · 42 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 1848ad20213f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

documentation-and-adrs is a skill published in the GitHub repository Plazmodium/odin-workflow (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 298 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-01.

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