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Architecture Decision

azure/architecture-decision

Conducts and records a verifiable ingestion architectural decision. Use when a choice alters pipeline boundaries, chunk/index contracts, identity, data, source integration, deployment, or operation with meaningful reversal cost.

608 tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
2
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
186
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/Azure/GPT-RAG --skill architecture-decision

What comes with it

1 300 bytes besides the instruction
references/adr-template.md

The instruction itself

1 sections, as written by the author

Ingestion architectural decision

  • Load the relevant engineering-principles references.
  • Define the retrieval or operator outcome, constraints, affected

repositories, and up to five prioritized characteristics with measures.

  • Compare at least two viable alternatives and not changing.
  • Evaluate document security, data contracts, index compatibility, chunk

quality, throughput, memory, cost, failure recovery, migration, and

reversibility.

  • Record the decision under docs/adr/ using

the ADR template.

  • Define fitness functions, adoption order, rollback or reindex strategy,

and a review trigger.

Do not turn a tool or Azure service preference into an architectural

requirement. When evidence is missing, record a time-bounded investigation

and its decision criterion rather than guessing.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take azure/architecture-decision from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

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.