Decide

What it does

When your agent uses it

• I need to make a decision about
• Stuck on a decision
• Deciding between
• What should I do about. This is both the decision-making workflow AND the decision log — making the decision is the act of logging it

Example prompts

• “what does saying yes displace?”
• “/decide,”
• “help me decide,”
• “/decide”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Capture the decision
2. 2Triage the question set
3. 3Walk through
4. 4Reach a call
5. 5Set the revisit
6. 6Archive
7. 7Surface

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cc31579. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • 37signals.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Decide loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 214 tokens; SKILL.md has 856 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~214

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.9k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from coreyhaines31/makerskills at commit cc31579, republished under its MIT licence (© coreyhaines31). 856 words, ~1,889 tokens.

name

decide

description

When you have a decision to make and want a structured workflow that picks the load-bearing questions, walks through them, reaches a call (or "wait"), and archives the rationale for future reference. Based on the 37signals Guide to Making Decisions (38 questions) plus house additions like Q39 opportunity cost ("what does saying yes displace?"). Triages to 6–8 relevant questions per decision instead of forcing the full set. Archives every decision to ~/.config/makerskills/decide/archive/ with a revisit date so you can check later whether the call was right. Triggers on "/decide," "help me decide," "should I [X]," "I need to make a decision about," "stuck on a decision," "deciding between," "go/no-go on," "what should I do about." This is both the decision-making workflow AND the decision log — making the decision is the act of logging it.

metadata.version

0.3.1

# Decision: <one-line>

**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD
**Decide by:** <date or "open">
**Reversibility:** easy / hard / one-way door
**Stakes:** low / medium / high

## Context
<1–3 sentences>

## Questions

### <Q3 phrasing>
<answer>

### <Q8 phrasing>
<answer>

(only questions actually applied — heading is the question text, not "Q3")

## Decision
**<the call, stated clearly>**

## Rationale
<2–3 sentences synthesizing the answers>

## Expected outcome
<what should be true if this was right, by <date>>

## Revisit
**<YYYY-MM-DD>** — <what to look for>

## Source
Questions adapted from [The 37signals Guide to Making Decisions](https://37signals.com/how-we-make-decisions)

- 2026-06-16 — [<decision>](./<filename>.md) — **<call>** — <one-line rationale> — revisit 2026-09-16

© coreyhaines31, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/decide of coreyhaines31/makerskills.

• SKILL.md
• references/questions.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cc31579