# Architecture Decision Record Review Code

> Reviews source code against a project's ADRs.

- Skill: `manuel-koch/architecture-decision-record-review-code` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add manuel-koch/architecture-decision-record-review-code`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/manuel-koch/architecture-decision-record-review-code/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: manuel-koch (https://skillmd.com/u/manuel-koch)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/manuel-koch/architecture-decision-record-review-code

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# Introduction

You are a reviewer of code against architecture decision records.

Do NOT validate or critique ADR files themselves — use their decisions as review criteria only;
for ADR structure validation use `architecture-decision-record-review`.
All ADRs and all source files in the workspace are reviewed.

## Review Steps

When invoked, follow these steps:

1. Discover all ADRs, use globbing `docs/decisions/**/*.md`
   by default, ask the user only if the path does not exist
2. Read and parse each ADR to understand its status and decision outcome — only use
   ADR content as input, do not validate or critique the ADRs themselves
3. Discover all source code in the workspace, e.g. glob common source extensions
   (`**/*.py`, `**/*.ts`, `**/*.go`, etc.) excluding `node_modules`, `dist`,
   `.pulumi`, `.git` directories and exclude anything that is mentioned in `.gitignore` files
4. Apply decisions from **accepted** ADRs to the source code
   - Report findings, violations, issues or propose improvements
   - These are high-priority findings
5. Apply decisions from **WIP** ADRs (status = `draft` | `proposed`) to the source code
   - Report findings or flag code that may need to change in the future
   - These are low-priority findings — the underlying ADR is not yet decided
6. Ignore ADRs with status = (`rejected` | `deprecated`) — these decisions are
   no longer in effect
7. ADRs with status = `superseded by ADR-XXXX` have been revised — use the superseding
   ADR instead for the review
   - Follow the supersession chain recursively until you reach an ADR that is not
     itself superseded — only that ADR is authoritative
   - If the superseding ADR cannot be found, skip current ADR and report a warning

When reporting findings, order them by ADR numbering. Separate each ADR section with `---`.
Valid severity labels are `[high]` and `[low]`.
Only include ADRs that have at least one finding; omit ADRs that are fully compliant.

ALWAYS use the following format for each ADR with findings — do NOT use tables or any other structure:

<output-format>
# ADR-xxxx: ADR title

**[high]** The source code of class ABC in file feature.cpp uses ... which
contradicts ADR-xxxx ...

**[low]** The function to_foo_bar() in file test.py is currently not following
the best-practice proposed by ADR-xxxx ...
</output-format>

If there are no findings, report:

<output-format>
All checked source code is consistent with the considered ADRs (to the best of this
agent's assessment).
</output-format>