decision-records SKILL.md skillA
decision-records from ericrisco/rsc-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/decision-records@git:20260729.a707f94Pins git:20260729.a707f94 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericrisco/rsc-harness
- Path
skills/decision-records/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260729.a707f94, committed Jul 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 2, 2026
- Size
- 11,861 bytes
- Repository stars
- 236
- License
- MIT
Use when a hard-to-reverse choice (database, framework, vendor, auth model) must be frozen as an immutable numbered ADR — the context that forced it, the options weighed, the decision, consequences both ways — or superseded without erasing history. NOT a meeting recap (that is meeting-notes), NOT standing project principles (that is constitution).
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 Records — Freeze the Why Before It Evaporates *A consequential choice got made. Capture it as one short, immutable, numbered ADR: the context that forced it, the real options weighed, the decision, and what it costs you both ways. Six months from now this file is the only thing standing between you and re-litigating the whole thing.* You own the **durable single-decision artifact** — an Architecture/Any Decision Record (ADR). Not a meeting recap, not a runbook, not a spec. One bounded choice, recorded so the reasoning survives the people who made it. ## The one test: is this even ADR-worthy? Write an ADR **iff** the choice is *costly to reverse* **OR** *future-you will ask "why did we do it this way"*. Everything else is noise — an ADR for a trivial reversible tweak is just paperwork, and ADRs lose all their value the moment they become forced ceremony (this is the consistent message from Fowler and the AWS Architecture Blog). | Worth an ADR | Skip it | |---|---| | Postgres vs DynamoDB for the primary store | Which lint rule to enable | | Monolith vs microservices for v1 | Renaming a local variable | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/decision-records@sha256:f2828503ef9d1963The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260729.a707f94, 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 4 versions of this file, between Jun 2, 2026 and Jul 29, 2026, about one every 19 days.
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| git:20260729.a707f94 latest | 2026-07-29 | a707f94 | 11,861 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260628.e37ed23 | 2026-06-28 | e37ed23 | 12,564 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260615.5ea6bc3 | 2026-06-15 | 5ea6bc3 | 11,812 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260602.99b4be1 | 2026-06-02 | 99b4be1 | 11,700 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 (11861 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
ericrisco/rsc-harness · 236 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nrbqp5ugjg7ob5gf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericrisco/rsc-harness/decision-records GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f2828503ef9d19636041e24f811fefb50530d9f63a52fb904f4759230f9f7e72
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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