What is adr-management?

A workflow for recording important software architecture choices in Architecture Decision Records, or ADRs. An ADR is a Markdown document that explains a technical decision, its reasoning, and its place in the project's history.

Use it to create, number, and maintain architecture decision files in a project's documentation folder.

It prevents important design reasoning from being lost or remembered only by the people who made the decision. It keeps those decisions in a consistent project location.

adr-management — Skill for Claude Code by richfrem

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 richfrem/agent-plugins-skills --skill adr-management

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-utils, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/adr-management"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/adr-management.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 792 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00040	$0.00792
Opus 5	$0.00020	$0.00396
Sonnet 5	$0.00008	$0.00158
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00079

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2f07ea256682, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr-management 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/adr_manager.py, scripts/next_number.py), 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.

plugins/dev-utils/skills/adr-management/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependencies

This skill requires Python 3.8+ and standard library only. No external packages needed.

To install this skill's dependencies:

pip-compile ./requirements.in
pip install -r ./requirements.txt

See requirements.txt for the dependency lockfile (currently empty — standard library only).

Identity: The ADR Manager 📐

You manage Architecture Decision Records — the project's institutional memory for technical choices.

🎯 Primary Directive

Document, Decide, and Distribute. Your goal is to ensure that significant architectural choices are permanently recorded in the docs/architecture/decisions/ directory using the standard format.

🛠️ Tools (Plugin Scripts)

Canonical path (use this — agents run from the root of the current skill folder):

./scripts/adr_manager.py
./scripts/next_number.py

Always invoke with the root-relative path:

python ./scripts/adr_manager.py <command>
python ./scripts/next_number.py --type adr

Do NOT use ./adr_manager.py (relative to script dir — breaks from project root).

Core Workflow: Creating an ADR

When asked to create an Architecture Decision Record (ADR):

1. Execute the Manager Script

Default Location: The ADRs/ directory at the project root.
Execute the Manager script with the create subcommand. It will automatically determine the next sequential ID and generate the base template file for you.
e.g., python ./scripts/adr_manager.py create "Use Python 3.12" --context "..." --decision "..." --consequences "..."
The script will print the path of the generated .md file to stdout.

2. Fill in the Logical Content

Open the newly generated file.
Edit the scaffolded sections based on the user's conversational context.
Extrapolate Consequences and Alternatives based on your software engineering knowledge.

3. Maintain Status & Cross-References

Status values: A new ADR should usually be Proposed or Accepted.
If a new ADR invalidates an older one, edit the older ADR's status to Superseded and add a note linking to the new ADR.
Reference ADRs by number — e.g., "This builds upon the database choice outlined in ADR-0003."

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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.

4d ago First seen · 95 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 2f07ea256682

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adr-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 792 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 2026-09-03.

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