Precedent Record — Development skill for Claude Code
Record a decision that was just settled, with its rationale and rejected alternatives.
How to install Precedent Record
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/asm0dey-precedent-precedent-record/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/asm0dey-precedent-precedent-record && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asm0dey/precedent/HEAD/commands/precedent-record.md -o ~/.claude/skills/asm0dey-precedent-precedent-record/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Precedent Record does
description: Record a decision that was just settled, with its rationale and rejected alternatives argument-hint: "[what was decided, or leave blank to use the conversation]"
Record the decision: $ARGUMENTS
If that is blank, use the decision settled in this conversation. Read `~/.claude/skills/precedent/SKILL.md` first if it is not already loaded — it covers what is worth recording and what is not.
Draft the command, show the user the one-line summary, and run it only once they confir
Alternatives in Development
- ADR Rubber Duck — ADR(Architecture Decision Record)の壁打ち相手としてヒアリングを通じて意思決定を整理し、ADRドラフトを作成する 974 ★
- Obsidian ADR — Generate a decision record when the vault structure changes — the vault knows why it knows what it does 277 ★
- Compass — Compass — Record a Decision 262 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
View Source RepositoryRelated Skills
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Capture architectural decisions made during coding sessions as structured ADRs. Auto-detects decision moments,
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Use before ending a session or when context is getting large. Saves decision rationale for future sessions.
Precedent Analyze
Read this project and record the decisions already visible in it
Precedent Diverge
Record that this project knowingly departs from precedent, and why
V ADR
Capture one genuine architecture decision as a thin, human-confirmed ADR under docs/superpowers/adr/NNNN-slug.
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Writes the durable record — what was decided, what was known at the time, what was rejected, and the date it g
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Use this agent to author a new Architecture Decision Record (ADR). Hand it the decision, the alternatives, and