develop-adr

develop-adr is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/pm-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (998 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A short record of an important technical decision, including its background and likely effects. An Architecture Decision Record, or ADR, preserves why a system or technology choice was made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a framework, database, service, or development pattern, or when documenting a technical constraint or non-obvious approach.
Why use it?
It stops teams from having to rediscover the reasoning behind choices later, especially when the original decision is questioned or new developers join.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when choosing a framework, database, service, or development pattern, or when documenting a technical constraint or non-obvious approach.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/develop-adr
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 product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill develop-adr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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 develop-adr

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/develop-adr"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/develop-adr.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 998 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
  • Socket pass 18 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 18 May 2026
  • 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 $0.00044 $0.00998
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00499
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00100

Measured 8d ago against content hash acab95233131, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

develop-adr 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.

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/develop-adr/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Decision Record (ADR)

An Architecture Decision Record documents a significant technical decision along with its context and consequences. ADRs capture the "why" behind architectural choices so future team members understand the reasoning - especially important when they question why something was done a particular way. This skill follows Michael Nygard's lightweight ADR format.

When to Use

  • Making significant technical decisions that affect system architecture
  • Choosing between technology options (frameworks, databases, services)
  • Establishing patterns that future development should follow
  • Documenting the rationale for constraints or non-obvious approaches
  • Preserving institutional knowledge about past decisions

When NOT to Use

  • The decision is a product or UX design choice, not architecture or technology -> use develop-design-rationale
  • You are still exploring whether an approach is feasible -> time-box the exploration and record it with develop-spike-summary first
  • You need to pitch a solution to stakeholders -> use develop-solution-brief; an ADR records a decision, it does not sell one
  • Nothing is actually being decided (the status quo continues unchanged): an ADR without a decision is noise; wait until there is one

Instructions

When asked to create an ADR, follow these steps:

  1. Assign a Number and Title ADRs are numbered sequentially (ADR-001, ADR-002, etc.) for easy reference. The title should be a short noun phrase describing the decision, like "Use PostgreSQL for order data" or "Adopt React for frontend."

  2. Set the Status New ADRs start as "Proposed." After team review, they become "Accepted," "Deprecated," or "Superseded by ADR-XXX." Status changes should be tracked.

  3. Describe the Context Explain the circumstances that led to this decision. What problem are you solving? What forces are at play (technical constraints, team expertise, timeline, cost)? This section should help a reader who wasn't there understand why this decision was needed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 8d ago First seen · 74 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A acab95233131

Subscribe to this mod's changes

develop-adr is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/pm-skills (647 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 998 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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