Adr Authoring

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The technical-architect profile needs to document architectural decisions
• Tasks that involve Architecture decision records

Example prompts

• “/adr-authoring”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Proposal — any team member creates an ADR in proposed state. The author is the ADR owner.
2. 2Review meeting — dedicated time slot with structured format
3. 3Decision — three outcomes
4. 4Superseding — new decision invalidates an accepted ADR? Create a new ADR. On acceptance, update old ADR status to superseded and move it…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 867a555. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • github.com
  • thinkrelevance.com
  • magnus919.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Adr Authoring loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~12k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 79 tokens; SKILL.md has 644 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~79

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.7k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~12k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from magnus919/hermes-profiles at commit 867a555, republished under its MIT licence (© magnus919). 644 words, ~1,683 tokens.

name

adr-authoring

description

Architecture Decision Records — decision capture, rationale documentation, alternatives analysis, and consequence tracking. Maps ADRs to Artifact Pyramid layers (navigation index→L1, active ADRs→L2, superseded ADRs→L3). Use when the technical-architect profile needs to document architectural decisions.

Initiating → Researching → Evaluating → Implementing → Maintaining → Sunsetting

[Identify need] → [Draft (proposed)] → [10-15m silent read] → [Discuss]
                      ↓                     ↓                     ↓
                 [Rework/review] ← [Needs rework]          [Accepted] → [Immutable]
                                                           [Rejected] → [L3]

001-choose-database.md
002-format-timestamps.md
003-manage-secrets.md

© magnus919, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files (references) in skills/architecture/adr-authoring of magnus919/hermes-profiles.

• SKILL.md
• references/adr-format.md
• references/adr-to-pyramid-mapping.md
• references/decision-sustainability.md
• references/fitness-functions.md
• references/project-setup-guide.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 867a555