Record a Decision

Record a Decision is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by inkeep in open-knowledge.

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Install Record a Decision

Copy Record a Decision 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/inkeep/open-knowledge/tree/main/packages/server/assets/skills/packs/software-lifecycle/record-a-decision ~/.claude/skills/record-a-decision

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/inkeep/open-knowledge.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: packages/server/assets/skills/packs/software-lifecycle/record-a-decision/SKILL.md in inkeep/open-knowledge
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/record-a-decision
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Record a Decision does

Record a Decision captures a settled architecture choice as a Nygard/MADR-shaped ADR under decisions/, with context, options weighed, decision, consequences, and supersedes links. Use when recording an architecture decision, writing an ADR, or superseding an old decision.

Record a Decision is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Record a Decision comes from a repository tagged 2nd-brain, agent-skills, claude, codex and company-brain.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Record a decision — write an ADR under `decisions/`

The platform /open-knowledge skill still governs every markdown operation here (grounding, linking, the rule that OK's MCP tools own in-scope markdown); this skill layers ADR craft on top.

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

Commands Record a Decision provides

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

/open-knowledge
/frame-a-proposal
/review-a-design
/write-a-spec

Frequently asked about Record a Decision

What else does inkeep publish alongside Record a Decision?
Record a Decision is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from inkeep/open-knowledge, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Codebase Wiki, Consolidate Notes and Frame a Proposal. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Record a Decision does, and is maintained by inkeep in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the inkeep/open-knowledge page.
How does Record a Decision compare to other Writing skills?
Record a Decision ranks #186 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 Record a Decision against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.