decision-analysis
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Use when comparing architecture options, tool choices, trade studies, criteria, scoring, rationale, or decision records for agentic coding.
2 other projects use a version of this.
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- govctl-org/govctltheir own version, first seen Oct 9, 2026
- HHC225/Japanese-Client-Breakertheir own version, first seen Apr 7, 2026
Other versions2 projects use a version of this.
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- govctl-org/govctl★ 276same name
- HHC225/Japanese-Client-Breaker★ 2same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository8 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- conops-builderSkill
- integration-plannerSkill
- requirements-auditorSkill
- requirements-distillerSkill
- technical-assessment-loopSkill
- validation-plannerSkill
- verification-plannerSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 8
Use this skill when a coding choice has multiple plausible options and the tradeoff should survive review.
- Very specific: line 23
Start with references/source-grounding.md, then inspect Section 6.8 pages extraction/pages/page_174.md through extraction/pages/page_180.md …
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Decision Analysis
Use this skill when a coding choice has multiple plausible options and the tradeoff should survive review.
Workflow
- State the decision needed, decision owner, scope, and deadline.
- List viable alternatives, including "do nothing" when realistic.
- Define criteria before choosing; include user impact, risk, cost, reversibility, maintainability, and verification burden.
- Weight or rank criteria when tradeoffs are not obvious.
- Compare alternatives against the same criteria using evidence, assumptions, and uncertainties.
- Select an option only after the matrix is visible.
- Record rationale, dissent or weak evidence, follow-up verification, and a revisit trigger.
- Output a decision record: decision, alternatives, criteria, evidence matrix, selected option, rationale, risks, verification burden, revisit trigger.
Source grounding
Start with references/source-grounding.md, then inspect Section 6.8 pages extraction/pages/page_174.md through extraction/pages/page_180.md before making NASA-handbook-derived decision-analysis claims.
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