feature-decision-analysis SKILL.md skillA

feature-decision-analysis from robsonkades/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/feature-decision-analysis@git:20261016.c769bd8

Pins git:20261016.c769bd8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
robsonkades/agent-skills
Path
skills/feature-decision-analysis/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261016.c769bd8, committed Oct 16, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 6, 2026
Size
14,093 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
Apache-2.0

Keeping the decision log for a feature and, before each entry, answering the two questions that make it trustworthy: where the decision came from — the user, the repository, an organisational standard or the agent — and whose it was to take. Use when a technology is about to be chosen for a feature, when "the project already uses X" is being treated as a reason to use X, when a corporate standard is being asserted without a source, when an agent is about to commit to a database, a broker, a…

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

# Feature Decision Analysis

## Purpose

The damaging decisions in a feature are rarely the ones someone argued about. They are the ones
that were never noticed as decisions: a broker chosen because it appeared in the build file, a
retention period invented because a number was needed, a "corporate standard" that was one
team's habit.

This skill makes **provenance** and **authority** explicit. Record missing sources or authority as
unresolved rather than claiming supported acceptance. An unresolved feasibility question does not
prevent documenting a proposal or continuing independent work.

## Workflow

1. **Notice consequential choices**, including defaults that affect the feature's contracts
   or constraints. Inspect the relevant existing log, accepted baseline and policy before adding an
   entry. Do not inventory every naming alternative; the categories are below.
2. **Assign provenance** from the four classes. This is a question of fact and it is checkable.
   Read [provenance and authority](references/provenance-and-authority.md) when establishing
   sources, resolving conflicting claims, reconstructing history, reusing an earlier decision,
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/feature-decision-analysis@sha256:6aed9ee63d220fc5

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.c769bd8, 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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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14093 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source

GitHub

robsonkades/agent-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_d64dyngvmddb2h7f
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=robsonkades/agent-skills/feature-decision-analysis
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6aed9ee63d220fc5dc618723bf9e4f0475156ee967f09c3659d13e0991e19bbb

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