Architecture Decision Recorder is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by levnikolaevich in claude-code-skills.
Architecture Decision Recorder records one architecture decision with context, alternatives, tradeoffs, and consequences. Use it for a significant choice, not for broad design, audits, or implementation work.
Architecture Decision Recorder is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Architecture Decision Recorder comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, anthropic, claude-code and claude-code-skills.
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Goal: Preserve the context, forces, alternatives, decision, and consequences of one architecturally significant choice in a compact durable record. Change only approved decision documentation; do not design the whole system, approve a decision silently, delete history, audit code, or implement the choice.
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Architecture Decision Recorder is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from levnikolaevich/claude-code-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Acceptance Test Builder, Architecture Auditor and Architecture Diagram Builder. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Architecture Decision Recorder does, and is maintained by levnikolaevich in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the levnikolaevich/claude-code-skills page.
Architecture Decision Recorder ranks #763 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Architecture Decision Recorder against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.
Architecture Decision Recorder is one of 25 skills cataloged on DirSkills from levnikolaevich/claude-code-skills.
Architecture Decision Recorder is one of 1012 Writing skills cataloged on DirSkills, ranked #763 by stars among them.