What problem does it solve?
Teams often lose the rationale behind structural, tooling, or workflow changes, making future maintenance and onboarding difficult. This skill ensures those decisions are clearly recorded, placed in a canonical location, and kept in sync with the actual code changes.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Decision Capture: Record the context, options, chosen path, and tradeoffs of an architectural or workflow decision.
- Canonical Placement: Automatically store the ADR in the repository’s decision surface for easy discovery.
- Verification: Validate that the documented decision aligns with the associated code changes and is reachable from the expected location.
- Use Case: When introducing a new build system or refactoring a core module, use this skill to document why the change was made and ensure the ADR lives in the project's
docs/adr directory.
Quick Start
Use the aoa-adr-write skill to record a new architectural decision and place it in the canonical ADR directory.