adr-writer SKILL.md skillA

adr-writer from llopresto87/cypress is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add llopresto87/cypress/adr-writer@git:20261006.fa6eac5

Pins git:20261006.fa6eac5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
llopresto87/cypress
Path
skills/adr-writer/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
git:20261006.fa6eac5, committed Oct 6, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 1, 2026
Size
13,808 bytes
Repository stars
121
License
MIT

Author an Architecture Decision Record that captures a non-obvious technical choice — its context, the decision, the consequences, the rejected alternatives, and the reversibility cost. Use whenever a non-trivial dependency is picked, a framework is chosen, a one-way door is opened, two specialists disagree and the orchestrator must pick, or anyone in a future session would ask "why did we do this?" An ADR exists so the answer is on disk, not in someone's head. Its lifecycle status lives in…

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

# adr-writer

ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) live in `docs/graph/decisions/` and
record every non-obvious technical choice. Each is a short, recorded
answer to "why did we pick this?"; a design doc is a different artifact.

This skill encodes the discipline of writing them well.

## When to apply this skill

- A new dependency is being committed to (the wiki page handles the
  *what*; the ADR handles the *why*).
- A framework, language, or platform is being chosen.
- A one-way door is being opened (data model, public API contract,
  vendor lock-in).
- A boundary between two services or modules is being drawn.
- Two specialists disagreed and the orchestrator picked an option.
- A bug post-mortem revealed an implicit decision that should have been
  explicit.
- A **T2 contained-lane** change made a real choice among options and
  owes its why-record (`tiers.contained-lane`). Write the short form:
  Context, Decision, Consequences, Reversibility, the sections that
  carry the why. Skip Alternatives when none were weighed, and say so in
  one line. A contained change whose why needs every section was
  misclassified: hand it back for T3.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add llopresto87/cypress/adr-writer@sha256:1516c33ac5730f79

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.fa6eac5, 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 8 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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git:20261006.fa6eac5 latest2026-10-06 fa6eac5 13,808 BA view · diff
git:20260930.dd7591d2026-09-30 dd7591d 13,455 BA view · diff
git:20260927.b4072312026-09-27 b407231 14,407 BA view · diff
git:20260915.df305672026-09-15 df30567 11,492 BA view · diff
git:20260912.b8005e82026-09-12 b8005e8 11,316 BA view · diff
git:20260906.6fbfe662026-09-06 6fbfe66 10,895 BA view · diff
git:20260906.53f845a2026-09-06 53f845a 10,578 BA view · diff
git:20260901.c8706d72026-09-01 c8706d7 7,754 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13808 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

GitHub

llopresto87/cypress · 121 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zcuiy4mwb5muyx3k
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=llopresto87/cypress/adr-writer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1516c33ac5730f7939659af501e260f4c9e86b1fe0bf0b1c2c99f1a4f9a808bc

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