architecture-decision-record

architecture-decision-record is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Stijnman/grok-custom-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (431 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A written record of an important software architecture or technology choice, including the situation, alternatives, consequences, and current status. An architecture decision affects the structure or major operation of a system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a technology, setting a major system design direction, or recording why an existing decision was accepted, deprecated, or replaced.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning behind a decision so future developers do not have to reconstruct an old discussion. It also makes trade-offs and possible migration work clear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when choosing a technology, setting a major system design direction, or recording why an existing decision was accepted, deprecated, or replaced.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stijnman/grok-custom-skills/architecture-decision-record
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Stijnman/grok-custom-skills --skill architecture-decision-record
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Stijnman/grok-custom-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 431 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 $0.00037 $0.00431
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00043

Measured 11d ago against content hash cb89eb8389c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-decision-record 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 11d 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.

.grok/skills/architecture-decision-record/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Architecture Decision Record

Purpose

Write a concise, durable record of a material technical decision so future contributors can understand the context, trade-offs, and consequences without reconstructing the discussion.

Workflow

  1. Confirm that a real architecture or technology decision is being made; do not create an ADR for routine implementation detail.
  2. Assign a stable identifier and a short active-voice title.
  3. Describe the context, constraints, decision drivers, and relevant stakeholders.
  4. Record the chosen decision precisely, including the intended scope and status: proposed, accepted, deprecated, or superseded.
  5. Compare meaningful alternatives and explain the evidence or trade-offs behind the choice.
  6. State positive, negative, and neutral consequences, including migration or operational effects.
  7. Link related decisions or supporting evidence when available, then deliver the ADR for review.

Output template

Use these headings: Status, Context, Decision, Alternatives considered, Consequences, and References. Keep the record self-contained and concise.

Quality boundaries

Do not fabricate consensus, benchmarks, approvals, or cost estimates. Preserve uncertainty where it remains. An ADR documents a decision; it does not replace a design review, security review, or implementation plan.

Error handling

Situation Response
Decision is still exploratory Recommend a time-boxed spike or options analysis before creating an ADR.
No clear decision owner Mark ownership as unresolved and request the needed governance context.
Prior decision exists Cross-reference it and use the correct supersession status.
Alternatives lack evidence State the limitation and identify the next validation step.
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. 11d ago First seen · 44 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A cb89eb8389c0

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architecture-decision-record is a skill published in the GitHub repository Stijnman/grok-custom-skills (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 431 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 2026-08-31.

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