decide
Skill138 starsChanged 7 months agoMITView on GitHub
Log a decision with context, alternatives considered, and rationale. Use for "/decide project: using websocket over polling" or "/decide project: chose React for frontend".
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 41 edited versions we read keep these.
3
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 30
Look for alternatives: "over", "instead of", "vs", "considered"
- Very specific: line 42
Search for related docs in docs/{project}/
- Distinctive: line 43
Add backlinks to relevant docs
- Distinctive: line 46
Add to project index if exists
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 41 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
/decide — Decision Logging
Record decisions with context and alternatives.
Context
Today's date: !date +%Y-%m-%d
Recent decisions: !ls decisions/*/*.md 2>/dev/null | tail -10
Reference template: @_templates/decision.md Config: @_core/config.yaml Processing logic: @_core/PROCESSING.md
Input
User input: $ARGUMENTS
Processing Steps
- Parse Input
- Extract project (before colon)
- Extract decision statement
- Look for alternatives: "over", "instead of", "vs", "considered"
- Extract context if provided
- Create Decision Note
- Filename:
decisions/{project}/{date}-{slug}.md - Apply template with:
- Decision statement
- Alternatives considered
- Context/rationale
- Add
## Linkssection
- Filename:
- Auto-Link
- Search for related docs in
docs/{project}/ - Add backlinks to relevant docs
- Search for related docs in
- Update References
- Add to project index if exists
- Append to Vault Log
- Append entry to
01-index/_vault-log.md(see.claude/rules/vault-log.md) - Action:
decision - Details: the decision statement in ~10 words
- Append entry to
Output
Created: decisions/{project}/{date}-{slug}.md
Decision: {decision}
Alternatives: {count} consideredOther versions42 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 0
None found.
Edited · 0
None found.
Wrote their own version · 42
- ParadevAI/Paradev★ 16ksame name
- superset-sh/superset★ 16ksame name
- coreyhaines31/makerskills★ 873same name
- me2resh/apexyard★ 532same name
- menkesu/awesome-pm-skills★ 441same name
- BlockRunAI/blockrun-mcp★ 392same name
- Abilityai/cornelius★ 109same name
- me2resh/agent-decision-record★ 48same name
- seandavi/lifeos-template★ 41same name
- alirezarezvani/gaios★ 37same name
32 more not listed
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.
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