adr

adr is a skill for Claude Code from qGolem/orc. It costs 9 tokens per session (2,743 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for recording architectural decisions: choices about how a software system should be designed. It gathers evidence from web searches, social posts, code repositories, and documentation before creating an ADR, or Architecture Decision Record.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when comparing architecture options, researching best practices, or documenting why a technical decision was made.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of making important design choices from generic advice or unsupported assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool; $skill-name invocation.

Part of the orc plugin — 28 skills, 27 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when comparing architecture options, researching best practices, or documenting why a technical decision was made.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qgolem/orc/adr
View source ↗ qGolem/orc
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 qGolem/orc --skill adr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qGolem/orc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 27 agents.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/qgolem/orc/adr/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/qgolem/orc/adr)
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

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,743 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 $0.00009 $0.02743
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.01097
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00549
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00274

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 30d07e5325e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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/adr/SKILL.md · 398 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 398 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orc ADR

Research phase before implementation. Runs 4 parallel agents to find best practices, KOLs, and production code.

Avoid:

  • Generic searches ("best practices TypeScript")
  • Ignoring contradictory findings
  • Creating ADRs without evidence
  • Launching more than 4 agents (context limits)

Pattern

orc-adr (standalone skill, inherit)
    │
    ├── [parallel] Web Search Agent (general-purpose)
    ├── [parallel] Twitter/X Agent (general-purpose)
    ├── [parallel] GitHub Agent (general-purpose)
    └── [parallel] Docs Agent (general-purpose)
    │
    └── Synthesize → ADR(s)

Input

If $ARGUMENTS provided: Use as $TOPIC directly. If the topic looks like it references a plan phase (mentions a slug that exists in .claude/plans/), also load PLAN.md and STATE.md for richer context. Don't enforce a format — just work with what the user gives you.

Read the full file on GitHub · 398 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 398 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 30d07e5325e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adr is a skill published in the GitHub repository qGolem/orc (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 2,743 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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