Agent skill

Async Decision Memo

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Run a decision asynchronously — the memo, the silent-read window, the comment protocol, and the deadline that makes it land without a meeting.

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Install Async Decision Memo

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill async-decision-memo -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills async-decision-memo --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/async-decision-memo .claude/skills/async-decision-memo && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
async-decision-memo
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
753 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Run a decision asynchronously — the memo, the silent-read window, the comment protocol, and the deadline that makes it land without a meeting.

  • Works in 6 steps: Write the memo for a silent first read.… → Assign the three roles by name. The… → Open a bounded window. Reversible… → …
  • Asked to decide something async
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, The Protocol and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Async Decision Memo is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Run a decision asynchronously — the memo, the silent-read window, the comment protocol, and the deadline that makes it land without a meeting. Use when asked to decide something async, replace a decision meeting with a document, run an Amazon-style written decision process, or when a decision keeps stalling in comment threads. Produces the decision memo plus the process wrapper: reader roles, response windows, comment-resolution rules, and the tie-breaker. For the document structure alone use decision-memo; this…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to decide something async
  • Replace a decision meeting with a document
  • Run an Amazon-style written decision process
  • A decision keeps stalling in comment threads

Example prompts

  • “/async-decision-memo”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Write the memo for a silent first read. Structure: the decision needed (one sentence) · the recommendation (up front — burying it invites…
  2. Assign the three roles by name. The decider (exactly one; "the group decides" is how nothing does) · consulted (listed individually…
  3. Open a bounded window. Reversible decisions: 2-3 working days. One-way doors: up to a week, never more — an async process longer than a…
  4. Enforce the comment protocol. Comments must be one of: objection (with reasoning — and where possible, what evidence would resolve it) ·…
  5. Close on time, whatever the state. At the deadline the decider: decides (the default) · extends once with a reason and new date · or…
  6. File it. The memo + closing note land where decisions live (the decision log, the Brain's decisions/ if one exists) — an async decision…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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.

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Async Decision Memo loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 143 tokens; SKILL.md has 753 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~143
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 753 words, ~1,454 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/async-decision-memo/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
async-decision-memo
description
Run a decision asynchronously — the memo, the silent-read window, the comment protocol, and the deadline that makes it land without a meeting. Use when asked to decide something async, replace a decision meeting with a document, run an Amazon-style written decision process, or when a decision keeps stalling in comment threads. Produces the decision memo plus the process wrapper: reader roles, response windows, comment-resolution rules, and the tie-breaker. For the document structure alone use decision-memo; this skill runs the process around it.

Async Decision Memo Skill

Remote teams keep reinventing this badly: someone posts a doc, twelve people leave drive-by comments over two weeks, nothing resolves, and the decision happens in a meeting anyway — now with resentment. The async decision is a process with a deadline, not a document with comments enabled. This skill runs the whole protocol.

What This Skill Produces

  • The decision memo (structured for silent reading, with the recommendation up front)
  • The process wrapper: named roles, response windows, comment-resolution rules, escalation
  • The kickoff message that opens the window and the closing note that records the outcome

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • The decision — what's being decided, the options, the recommendation and its reasoning (rough notes fine)
  • The people: who decides (one name), who must be consulted (their objection could change the answer), who is merely informed
  • The clock: when is this decision needed, and what does it block
  • The stakes — reversible or one-way-door? (Sets the window length and the bar for escalation)

The Protocol

  1. Write the memo for a silent first read. Structure: the decision needed (one sentence) · the recommendation (up front — burying it invites a treasure hunt) · context in prose (full sentences force complete thinking; bullets hide gaps) · options considered with real trade-offs (a strawman option list discredits the whole memo) · what would change my mind (the single highest-trust section — name the evidence that would flip the recommendation) · cost of deciding slowly (why the deadline is real). Target ≤2 pages; past that, the memo needs editing, not more patience.
  2. Assign the three roles by name. The decider (exactly one; "the group decides" is how nothing does) · consulted (listed individually — their silence is treated as consent and they know it) · informed (get the outcome, not a comment invitation). The role list ships in the kickoff, not in anyone's imagination.
  3. Open a bounded window. Reversible decisions: 2-3 working days. One-way doors: up to a week, never more — an async process longer than a week isn't deliberation, it's drift. The kickoff states the close date/time and timezone, and that silence from consulted = consent.
  4. Enforce the comment protocol. Comments must be one of: objection (with reasoning — and where possible, what evidence would resolve it) · question (answered by the author within a working day) · improvement (accepted/declined by the author, no debate thread). Preference restatements and drive-bys get one reply: "noted — not an objection." Threads longer than 3 exchanges move to a 15-minute call between those two people only, whose outcome is written back into the thread.
  5. Close on time, whatever the state. At the deadline the decider: decides (the default) · extends once with a reason and new date · or escalates (only for an unresolved objection on a one-way door). The closing note records: the decision, the dissent as stated by the dissenter, what would reopen it, and who does what by when. Dissent recorded ≠ decision reopened — disagree-and-commit is the exit, and the note says so.
  6. File it. The memo + closing note land where decisions live (the decision log, the Brain's decisions/ if one exists) — an async decision that lives in a chat scrollback will be relitigated by someone who "never saw it."
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Output Format

Async Decision: [title] — window closes [date, tz]

Roles: Decider: [name] · Consulted: [names] (silence = consent) · Informed: [names]

The memo (structured per the protocol above)

Kickoff message (ready to post): [what's being decided, the recommendation exists — read before commenting, the window, the comment protocol in two lines, silence rule]

Closing note template: Decision: […] · Dissent, as stated: […] · Reopens if: […] · Actions: [who/what/when] · Filed: [where]

Quality Checks

  • Exactly one named decider; consulted people listed individually
  • The recommendation appears before the context, not after it
  • "What would change my mind" names specific evidence, not humility theatre
  • The window has a date, time, and timezone; the silence rule is stated in the kickoff
  • The closing note records dissent verbatim and the reopen condition

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not open comments without the protocol — an unbounded comment section is the meeting you were avoiding, slower
  • Do not run a memo without a decider — consensus-by-exhaustion is not an outcome
  • Do not let threads run past 3 exchanges — two people arguing in a doc are holding everyone else hostage
  • Do not extend the window twice — the second extension means the memo was premature; withdraw and rewrite it
  • Do not soften recorded dissent into "some concerns were raised" — the dissenter's actual words, or the record is fiction

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Decide something async."
  • "Replace a decision meeting with a document."
  • "Run an Amazon-style written decision process."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/async-decision-memo of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Async Decision Memo

What does Async Decision Memo do?

Run a decision asynchronously — the memo, the silent-read window, the comment protocol, and the deadline that makes it land without a meeting. Async Decision Memo is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Run a decision asynchronously — the memo, the silent-read window, the comment protocol, and the deadline that makes it land without a meeting.

When should I use Async Decision Memo?

Async Decision Memo fits situations like: asked to decide something async; replace a decision meeting with a document; run an Amazon-style written decision process; A decision keeps stalling in comment threads.

How do I install Async Decision Memo in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill async-decision-memo -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/async-decision-memo in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/async-decision-memo in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Async Decision Memo in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill async-decision-memo -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/async-decision-memo in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/async-decision-memo in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Async Decision Memo in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill async-decision-memo -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/async-decision-memo, .gemini/skills/async-decision-memo, .github/skills/async-decision-memo and .opencode/skills/async-decision-memo in your project.

What does Async Decision Memo need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Async Decision Memo is instructions for the agent only.

Does Async Decision Memo access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Async Decision Memo safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Async Decision Memo use?

Async Decision Memo is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Async Decision Memo use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Async Decision Memo?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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