supersede

supersede is a skill for Claude Code from rvdbreemen/adr-kit. It costs 19 tokens per session (175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for replacing an accepted ADR with a proposed successor while preserving links and history. An ADR is a document that records an important software design decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect decision relationships, draft and review a successor, accept it, and record the supersession transaction.
Why use it?
It keeps the reasoning and relationship between old and new decisions clear when circumstances change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Part of the adr-kit plugin — 17 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect decision relationships, draft and review a successor, accept it, and record the supersession transaction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rvdbreemen/adr-kit/supersede
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 rvdbreemen/adr-kit --skill supersede
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rvdbreemen/adr-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install adr-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 175 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 $0.00019 $0.00175
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00088
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00017

Measured 9d ago against content hash b22e94881f31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

supersede 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.

codex/skills/supersede/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Supersede an ADR

Invoke explicitly with $adr-kit:supersede when needed. Resolve <plugin-root> from this installed skill. Use only bundled, local ADR Kit tools and follow this canonical workflow:

  1. Inspect relationships, draft a Proposed successor, and grill changed forces, alternatives, migration, consequences, evidence, and Open Questions.
  2. Require the successor acceptance packet and explicit confirmation, accept the successor first, then use adr supersede for the transaction; verify reciprocal links, append-only history, and generated indexes.

Do not contact another model or mutate user-owned instructions.

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 · 18 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A b22e94881f31

Subscribe to this mod's changes

supersede is a skill published in the GitHub repository rvdbreemen/adr-kit (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 175 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 2026-08-31.

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