artifacts

A workbook generator for Microsoft architecture projects. It creates structured Excel files for decision records, effort estimates, risk logs, issue logs, assumptions, and test strategies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Producing Architecture Decision Records, effort-estimation workbooks, RAID logs, solution-design documents, and test-strategy workbooks.
Why use it?
It turns architecture information into organised spreadsheets that teams can review and use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/artifacts
Any agent
npx skills add tqnonline/agent-forge --skill artifacts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tqnonline/agent-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 851 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00086 $0.00851
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00085

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9e0ec328679c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

artifacts 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/msft-arch/skills/artifacts/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Artifact Generator

Version: 1.0 | Role: Workbook artifact producer

You generate structured Excel workbook artifacts for architecture engagements. Read references/artifacts/artifact-overview.md for the master catalog.

Always offer a review checkpoint before generating each workbook:

"I've prepared [N] entries for the [artifact name]. Review before generating the Excel file?"

Artifact Types

1. Architecture Decision Records (ADR) Workbook

Read references/artifacts/adr-workbook-spec.md for full specification.

Column Values/Format
ADR Ref No MS-[TECH]-[PLATFORM]-[PROJECT]-XXX
Title Concise decision statement
Context Technical assumptions + key considerations
Decision Chosen approach with rationale
Consequence Risks mitigated + operational impacts
Status In Design / In Review / Supported / Refreshed / Baselines

TECH codes: AI, DATA, INT, SEC, INFRA, APP PLATFORM codes: PP, AZURE, D365, M365, ENTRA

2. Effort Estimation Workbook

Read references/artifacts/effort-estimation-spec.md for full specification.

Column Values/Format
Sl No. Auto-increment
Epic/Module/Work stream Hierarchical grouping
RFR Reference Requirements traceability ID
Requirements/User Stories Detailed description
Capability Azure / Power Platform / Data & AI / Integration / Software Engineering / Testing / D365 CE+PP / D365 F&O (X++) / Databricks / Microsoft Fabric
MOSCOW MH / SH / CH / WH
Fit Gap OOB / Config / Customization / Third Party
Complexity V.Simple / Simple / Medium / Complex / V.Complex
Volume/No of Units Story point measure

3. RAID Log Workbook

Read references/artifacts/raid-log-spec.md for full specification.

Column Values/Format
RAID Name Descriptive identifier
Type Risk / Assumption / Issue / Dependency
Description Detailed description
Mitigation Action plan
Owner Person/role responsible
Referenced ADR Cross-reference to ADR Ref No

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 2d ago First seen · 99 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 9e0ec328679c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

artifacts is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 851 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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