architectural-decision-record SKILL.md skillA
architectural-decision-record from testdouble/han is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add testdouble/han/architectural-decision-record@git:20260819.cdb751ePins git:20260819.cdb751e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- testdouble/han
- Path
han-documentation/skills/architectural-decision-record/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260819.cdb751e, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 30, 2026
- Size
- 16,323 bytes
- Repository stars
- 338
- License
- MIT
Create, extract, or convert an ADR (architectural decision record) using the ADR template. Use when creating new ADRs, extracting an ADR from existing documentation, converting a document into an ADR, recording an architecture or design decision, or updating the status of an existing ADR. Does not create or update enforceable coding standards or conventions — use coding-standard for that. Does not write feature or system documentation — use project-documentation instead.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Create ADR
## Operating Principles
- **YAGNI applies to ADRs themselves.** Apply the evidence-based YAGNI rule from
[../../references/yagni-rule.md](../../references/yagni-rule.md). An ADR is worth recording only when there is a
concrete forcing function today — a real decision the team is actively making, an existing code path or architectural
choice that will be locked in by this record, an applicable regulation, a customer commitment, or a documented
incident that drove the choice. ADRs about decisions that don't have to be made yet, "for future flexibility", "best
practice says we should pick X", or symmetry with other ADRs ("we have one for auth, so we should have one for
billing") are YAGNI candidates and the ADR should not be written. When proposed, recommend deferral with the trigger
that would justify writing the ADR (a real decision arising, a real incident, a real regulation taking effect). The
user always wins; the rule's job is to make the cost of writing speculative architectural records visible — every ADR
is a future-reader's load and a pattern future agents will treat as committed.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add testdouble/han/architectural-decision-record@sha256:aa396f931ac4a4aeThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.cdb751e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 30, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260819.cdb751e latest | 2026-08-19 | cdb751e | 16,323 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260818.55bdb1d | 2026-08-18 | 55bdb1d | 16,249 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260731.e79299f | 2026-07-31 | e79299f | 16,135 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260731.d95412f | 2026-07-31 | d95412f | 16,340 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260730.78dc4f8 | 2026-07-30 | 78dc4f8 | 16,711 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16323 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
testdouble/han · 338 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bttdhstwrtsml45h GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=testdouble/han/architectural-decision-record GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aa396f931ac4a4ae340635af733ed32e0ef1f3cfaa556f4d0bc5baaf8ad98d52
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