Architecture Decision Records

Architecture Decision Records is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by yonatangross in orchestkit.

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Install Architecture Decision Records

Copy Architecture Decision Records into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit/tree/main/src/skills/architecture-decision-record ~/.claude/skills/architecture-decision-record

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: src/skills/architecture-decision-record/SKILL.md in yonatangross/orchestkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/architecture-decision-record
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1109 skills

What Architecture Decision Records does

Architecture Decision Records provides a Nygard-format template for documenting architectural decisions with context, decision, consequences, and alternatives. Use it when recording important technology choices or evaluating trade-offs.

Architecture Decision Records is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Architecture Decision Records comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, agents, ai-agents, ai-development and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Architecture Decision Records

Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) are lightweight documents that capture important architectural decisions along with their context and consequences. This skill provides templates, examples, and best practices for creating and maintaining ADRs in your projects.

Overview

Making significant technology choices (databases, frameworks, cloud providers)
Designing system architecture or major components
Establishing patterns or conventions for the team
Evaluating trade-offs between multiple approaches
Documenting decisions that will impact future development

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Architecture Decision Records provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/create-adr

Frequently asked about Architecture Decision Records

What else does yonatangross publish alongside Architecture Decision Records?
Architecture Decision Records is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from yonatangross/orchestkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI UI Generation, API Design and Accessibility. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Architecture Decision Records does, and is maintained by yonatangross in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the yonatangross/orchestkit page.
How does Architecture Decision Records compare to other Writing skills?
Architecture Decision Records ranks #923 by stars among the 1109 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 Records against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.