decision-recording

decision-recording is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from robotaitai/project-bedrock. It costs 42 tokens per session (855 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A small written record of important software decisions, including what was chosen, why it was chosen and which alternatives were rejected. These records are called architecture decision records, or ADRs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Documenting technology choices, structural constraints, reversed decisions and other decisions whose reasoning should remain available in the project.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning behind decisions so future developers and coding agents do not have to reconsider settled choices.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Documenting technology choices, structural constraints, reversed decisions and other decisions whose reasoning should remain available in the project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robotaitai/project-bedrock/decision-recording
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add robotaitai/project-bedrock --skill decision-recording
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robotaitai/project-bedrock

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 855 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 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 $0.00042 $0.00855
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00428
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00085

Measured 9d ago against content hash 56b1a400f2e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-recording 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 9d 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.

assets/skills/decision-recording/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Recording

Persists the rationale for architectural and design choices so future agents do not re-litigate settled questions.


When to record a decision

Record when any of these occur:

  • A technology, framework, or pattern is chosen over alternatives
  • A structural constraint is adopted (e.g., "no ORM", "raw SQL only")
  • A previous decision is reversed or superseded
  • The user says "remember why we chose X" or "note that we decided not to do Y"

Do NOT record:

  • Tactical choices (variable names, minor refactors, formatting)
  • Facts that are obvious from reading the code
  • Speculative decisions not yet confirmed

Step 1 -- Create the decision file

SLUG="<short-hyphenated-title>"
DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
FILE="agent-knowledge/Memory/decisions/${DATE}-${SLUG}.md"

Copy from templates/memory/decision.template.md. Preserve YAML frontmatter.


Step 2 -- Fill in the template

Required fields -- keep each one short:

Field Content
What One sentence: what was decided
Why Primary driver: constraint, measurement, user preference
Alternatives considered 1-3 bullets: what was rejected and why
Consequences 1-3 bullets: what this locks in or rules out

Optional:

  • Superseded by: link to the reversal decision if this one is no longer active

In the relevant branch note under Memory/, add or update the Decisions section:

## Decisions
- [2025-01-15-use-raw-sql.md](decisions/2025-01-15-use-raw-sql.md) -- chose raw SQL over ORM

One line per decision. Keep descriptions under 10 words.


Step 4 -- Update decisions/decisions.md

Prepend a line in agent-knowledge/Memory/decisions/decisions.md:

- [2025-01-15-use-raw-sql.md](2025-01-15-use-raw-sql.md) -- chose raw SQL over ORM

Newest first. If the decision reverses an earlier one, add [reverses YYYY-MM-DD-slug].


Step 5 -- Update Memory/MEMORY.md if the root summary changed

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 9d ago First seen · 125 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 56b1a400f2e9

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decision-recording is a skill published in the GitHub repository robotaitai/project-bedrock (45 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 855 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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