Ca Adr Agent Skill
Author a numbered, dated, user-attributed Architecture Decision Record under .codearbiter/decisions/.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/arbiterForge/codeArbiter --skill ca-adrThe instruction itself
4 sections, as written by the author$ca-adr — author an ADR
Record an architectural decision as a numbered, dated ADR. Title the decision clearly — name what was
decided, not what was considered ("Use PostgreSQL as the primary database", not
"Database selection"). This is the only sanctioned path to author an ADR.
Routes to
The decision-lifecycle skill (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/routines/decision-lifecycle/SKILL.md). The skill
owns numbering, the file template, the proposed → accepted → superseded | rejected status lifecycle,
and writes the file to <project-root>/.codearbiter/decisions/. Status transitions require
explicit user instruction; the orchestrator never advances an ADR on its own.
When NOT to use
- Check the health of existing ADRs →
$ca-adr-status. - Reconcile or challenge a suspect ADR →
$ca-reconcile. - Ask about a decision without recording it →
$ca-btw.
Hard gate
An ADR is authored ONLY via $ca-adr with explicit user attribution. MUST NOT author an ADR as the
disposition of a routine finding — decision-worthy findings surface to the user or to
open-questions.md as a [CONFIRM-NN]. MUST NOT resolve a [CONFIRM-NN] in the ADR by guessing.
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How to use it
Take arbiterforge/ca-adr from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.