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title: "Architecture Decision Record - Air Market"
description: "You are choosing between two ways of building something and the reasoning will be lost by next quarter. This helps you write that choice down properly, with the trade-offs and what you are giving up.…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/architecture"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Architecture Decision Record

Skill by [Anthropic](/@anthropics)

# Architecture Decision Record

Write down why you picked it, before you forget

## What this does

You are choosing between two ways of building something and the reasoning will be lost by next quarter. This helps you write that choice down properly, with the trade-offs and what you are giving up. It can also review a design somebody else proposed, or sketch a new piece from your requirements. Reach for it at the moment of the decision.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Decide between two technologies and record why
- Write up a design decision with its trade-offs
- Get a second read on a system design proposal

## Information

**Architecture Decision Record at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Anthropic](/@anthropics) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 2 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf/engineering/skills/architecture) |
| GitHub stars | 23,642 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 6,994, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Architecture Decision Record and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Architecture Decision Record's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | 9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf |
| Content hash | 63c8765ff0e91545a9a68c35716b0a4fec27da0dbe0e7802c51044a739e6a23a |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf/engineering/skills/architecture/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Architecture Decision Record](/security/architecture)

## About Architecture Decision Record

This creates or evaluates an architecture decision record: the short document that says what you chose, what else you considered, and what you accepted by choosing it.

Use it when you are picking between technologies, when a design decision needs writing up with its trade-offs and consequences, when a system design proposal needs reviewing, or when you are designing a new component from requirements and constraints.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Architecture Decision Record safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Architecture Decision Record and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 9789ea78ad66, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/architecture.

### How do I install Architecture Decision Record?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/architecture on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf/engineering/skills/architecture. Install from that link, not the branch.

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- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/architecture>