decision-making SKILL.md skillA
decision-making from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/decision-making@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/decision-making/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 7,267 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Runs a structured decision process for high-stakes choices - reversibility classification, weighted decision matrices, expected value with explicit probabilities, pre-mortems, second-order thinking, and 10/10/10 - and produces a documented recommendation plus a decision-journal entry. Use when someone asks "should I take this job or stay", "how do I decide between these two paths", "I keep going back and forth on a big decision", or "help me think through whether to relocate". Do NOT use for…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Decision Making Most bad decisions are not caused by bad reasoning - they are caused by deciding the wrong question, rationalizing a pre-chosen favorite, or spending a week of analysis on a choice that could be undone in an afternoon. This process matches the depth of analysis to the stakes, forces criteria to be written before options are scored, and leaves a journal entry so judgment can be calibrated later. ## Operating procedure Order matters: classification comes first because it decides whether the rest of the process runs at all, and criteria must be locked before any option is scored - scoring first invites rationalizing a favorite. ### Step 1: Gather inputs Collect before analyzing. Label any estimate the user cannot source as a guess. - The decision, stated in one sentence with a deadline. Default deadline if none exists: set one now - endless analysis is itself a costly choice. - The real options on the table. Push for at least three; a binary framing usually hides a third option (negotiate, delay, pilot, partial commitment). - What happens if the user does nothing (the status quo is always an option and often the silently chosen one). …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/decision-making@sha256:e693681944f07466The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 7,267 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 7,230 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 7,262 B | A | view |
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ac6kizhazq2n37ap GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/decision-making GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e693681944f0746657465a049433cf122947437d62be78b7a4543c161cfc15e1
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