adr-code-traceability

adr-code-traceability is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (940 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for linking code to an Architecture Decision Record, or ADR—a document that explains an important technical choice. It provides placement and comment patterns for several programming languages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing an ADR, creating related files, or adding a reference beside code whose design choice needs context.
Why use it?
It makes the reason behind non-obvious code decisions easier to find and connect to the original design discussion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the itp plugin — 9 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Use it when implementing an ADR, creating related files, or adding a reference beside code whose design choice needs context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/adr-code-traceability
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill adr-code-traceability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install itp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 940 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 fail 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
  • high Rogue Agent · line 115
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
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 $0.00032 $0.00940
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00094

Measured 2d ago against content hash ca2cf70d4249, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr-code-traceability 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 2d 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.

plugins/itp/skills/adr-code-traceability/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADR Code Traceability

Add Architecture Decision Record references to code for decision traceability. Provides language-specific patterns and placement guidelines.

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

When to Use This Skill

  • Creating new files as part of an ADR implementation
  • Documenting non-obvious implementation choices
  • User mentions "ADR traceability", "code reference", "document decision"
  • Adding decision context to code during /itp:go Phase 1

Quick Reference

Reference Format

ADR: {adr-id}

Path Derivation: ADR: 2025-12-01-my-feature/docs/adr/2025-12-01-my-feature.md

Language Patterns (Summary)

Language New File Header Inline Comment
Python """...\n\nADR: {adr-id}\n""" # ADR: {adr-id} - reason
TypeScript /** ... \n * @see ADR: {adr-id} */ // ADR: {adr-id} - reason
Rust //! ...\n//! ADR: {adr-id} // ADR: {adr-id} - reason
Go // Package ... \n// ADR: {adr-id} // ADR: {adr-id} - reason

See Language Patterns for complete examples.


Placement Decision Tree

Is this a NEW file created by the ADR?
├── Yes → Add reference in file header
└── No → Is the change non-obvious?
    ├── Yes → Add inline comment with reason
    └── No → Skip ADR reference

See Placement Guidelines for detailed guidance.


Examples

New File (Python)

"""
Redis cache adapter for session management.

ADR: 2025-12-01-redis-session-cache
"""

class RedisSessionCache:
    ...

Inline Comment (TypeScript)

// ADR: 2025-12-01-rate-limiting - Using token bucket over sliding window
// for better burst handling in our use case
const rateLimiter = new TokenBucketLimiter({ rate: 100, burst: 20 });

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 118 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A ca2cf70d4249

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adr-code-traceability is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (62 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 940 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 2026-09-05.

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