decision-record SKILL.md skillA
decision-record from eagerworks/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add eagerworks/skills/decision-record@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- eagerworks/skills
- Path
skills/decision-record/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 8, 2026
- Size
- 5,158 bytes
- Repository stars
- 15
- License
- MIT
Writes or updates an architecture decision record (ADR) as a dated markdown file under docs/decision-records/ — a one-sentence declarative title with no leading number and no Status field, and the four sections Context, Decision, Consequences, Related. Use when a change makes a real judgment call with a defensible alternative that the code alone won't explain, when asked to "record this decision", "write an ADR", or "document why we chose this", or when a review flags an undocumented decision.…
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
# Decision Record Skill Turns a judgment call that's still only in someone's head — or in a PR description that will scroll out of sight — into a durable markdown file the next reader can find. The record captures **why** a choice was made and what the real alternative was, so the reasoning survives the person who had it. The format is fixed, not negotiated: a dated filename, a declarative one-sentence title with no leading number, no `Status` field, and exactly four sections. That's the whole point — a record written by this skill looks the same in every repo, so a reader who has seen one can read them all. See `references/format.md` for each rule and why it's that way, including what to do when a repo already keeps records in a different shape. **Mutation posture.** Writing the file is the point of this skill, so creating or editing a record under `docs/decision-records/` doesn't need a separate confirmation once the user has asked for one. The mandate stops there: it never pushes, opens a PR, or edits the code the record is about. Committing the record is a plain `docs:` commit — see `references/writing.md`. ## When a Record Is Warranted …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add eagerworks/skills/decision-record@sha256:89571a2e2b4d150bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 8, 2026.
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- 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
eagerworks/skills · 15 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_g4lhlclvxaymbsee GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eagerworks/skills/decision-record GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/89571a2e2b4d150b6e4cf3191f2eee213a238149842d48daface390746b5538e
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