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adr-writer is agent-read markdown (skill) from llopresto87/cypress: 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 fron.

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# adr-writer

ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) live in `docs/graph/decisions/` and
record every non-obvious technical choice. They are not philosophy
papers and not design docs; they are a recorded answer to "why did
we pick this?"

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 rather than inventing them. A contained change whose why
  needs every section was misclassified; hand that back, do not pad.
…

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How to install

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Source

GitHub

llopresto87/cypress · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · 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/56144fd60546bc3ef8a84da9fdba97544dbaa10c10238864fd3036ee2c8ab2bb

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