create-decision

create-decision is a skill for Claude Code from tomzx/agents. It costs 22 tokens per session (841 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lightweight record of an architectural or implementation choice, including the situation, alternatives, trade-offs, and expected results. It is often called an Architecture Decision Record, or ADR.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a concrete technical decision, the options considered, what was chosen, what was given up, and what follows from the choice.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning behind a choice so future contributors do not have to guess why the code works that way.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to document a concrete technical decision, the options considered, what was chosen, what was given up, and what follows from the choice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tomzx/agents/create-decision
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tomzx/agents --skill create-decision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 841 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 $0.00022 $0.00841
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00336
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00084

Measured 22d ago against content hash 6ff818870dae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-decision 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 22d 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.

skills/create-decision/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Decision

Records a decision made during implementation as a lightweight Architecture Decision Record (ADR). Captures the context, the decision, alternatives considered, trade-offs, and expected consequences so future contributors understand why the code is the way it is.

Prerequisites

  • Apply the shared SDLC conventions in skills/sdlc/references/shared.md.
  • A concrete decision that was made (or needs to be made) during implementation
  • Enough context to explain the forces that shaped the decision

Steps

  1. Identify the decision: what question was answered or choice was made.
  2. Describe the context: what problem exists, what constraints apply, what prompted the decision.
  3. List the options that were considered (at least two, including the chosen one).
  4. State the decision clearly.
  5. Explain the trade-offs: what is gained and what is sacrificed.
  6. Describe the consequences: what changes as a result, what follow-up is expected.
  7. Save the document to .sdlc/knowledge/decisions/ (or the project's existing ADR directory if one exists) using the filename pattern N-<slug>.md where N is the next available number (counting existing files in that directory).

If this decision replaces an earlier one, run /supersede-decision <old> <new> afterwards to mark the prior ADR Superseded by [N] and record the reverse link. Do not hand-edit the older decision's status.

Output Format

Use the template at skills/sdlc/templates/knowledge/decision.md (copied to .sdlc/templates/knowledge/decision.md by /initialize-sdlc-directory; use the project's customized copy if present). Write the result to the artifact path named in the steps above.

Outcome

If $OUTCOME_YAML is set, emit verdict: approved there per skills/sdlc/references/shared.md once the record is written. In the same emission, list the artifact under artifacts: (.sdlc/knowledge/decisions/N-<slug>.md, or the project's existing ADR directory when one is used).

Example Usage

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 22d ago Changed · +1 lines 6ff818870dae
  2. 23d ago Changed · -4 lines 00d75b3507d2
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 6e916f963380

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create-decision is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 841 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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