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decision-memo is agent-read markdown (skill) from rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os: Write a decision memo a decider can act on in one read: the situation, the options priced, the door type, one recommendation, and the dissent recorded. Use when a decision is stuck in threads and meetings, when a choice needs a sponsor's sign-off, when a team keeps re-deciding the same question, or when a reversible call is getting one-way-door treatment (or the reverse). Takes the question, the options, and the evidence on hand; returns the memo in the decision memo template and, once decided, .

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What the file says

# Decision Memo: one page, one decider, one recorded answer

Decisions die in two ways. The reversible ones get committee treatment and take a quarter; the irreversible ones get made in a chat thread on a Friday. Either way the rationale evaporates, and the question comes back in six months to a room that has to guess why. This skill sizes the process to the door, forces the options to be priced, and puts the answer where the next person can find it.

## Files this skill drives

- [../../templates/planning/decision-memo.md](../../templates/planning/decision-memo.md), the memo itself
- [../../templates/execution/decision-log.md](../../templates/execution/decision-log.md), where the decided outcome lands as a numbered entry
- [../../frameworks/prioritization/decision-doors.md](../../frameworks/prioritization/decision-doors.md), the reversibility sheet that sets how much process the decision gets
- [../../frameworks/prioritization/weighted-decision-matrix.md](../../frameworks/prioritization/weighted-decision-matrix.md), used only when three or more options and three or more criteria need comparing
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rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

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