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Cad Decide — Development skill for Claude Code

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Record a "Why This, Not That" Architectural Decision Record (ADR) for interviews and agent memory.

How to install Cad Decide

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/sayanthegamer-cadence-cad-decide/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/sayanthegamer-cadence-cad-decide && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sayanthegamer/cadence/HEAD/commands/cad-decide.md -o ~/.claude/skills/sayanthegamer-cadence-cad-decide/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Cad Decide does

name: cad-decide description: Record a "Why This, Not That" Architectural Decision Record (ADR) for interviews and agent memory.

Execute the `cadence-decide` skill:

Capture the architectural crossroad (chosen option vs rejected alternatives).
Generate an ADR file in .agents/decisions/ADR-XXX-[title].md:
- Decisive reason why chosen option won.
- Exact reasons alternatives were rejected ("Why Not That?").
- Conscious trade-offs & sacrifices.
- Measurable Revisit Trigg

Alternatives in Development

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Engage.Memory — Cross-engagement pattern memory — recall prior techniques, record confirmed findings, housekeeping 348 ★
Obsidian ADR — Generate a decision record when the vault structure changes — the vault knows why it knows what it does 277 ★