Agent skill

Decision Autopsy

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Judge a past decision by its PROCESS, not its outcome — because good decisions lose and bad decisions win, and teams that can't tell the difference learn the wrong lessons.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Decision Autopsy

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills decision-autopsy --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/decision-autopsy .claude/skills/decision-autopsy && 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
decision-autopsy
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
595 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Judge a past decision by its PROCESS, not its outcome — because good decisions lose and bad decisions win, and teams that can't tell the difference learn the wrong lessons.

  • Works in 5 steps: The two verdicts, separated — Decision:… → The knowability ledger — table: fact |… → The luck accounting — one honest… → …
  • Reviewing a big call after the fact (a bet that failed
  • SKILL.md covers Required Inputs, The Forensic Frames, Output Format and Quality Checks, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Decision Autopsy is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Judge a past decision by its PROCESS, not its outcome — because good decisions lose and bad decisions win, and teams that can't tell the difference learn the wrong lessons. Use when reviewing a big call after the fact (a bet that failed, a pass that haunts, a hire, a pivot) and the room is about to conclude 'it failed so it was wrong.' Produces a process-forensics report: what was knowable then, the quality grade of the decision as-made, the luck accounting, and the ONE process change worth keeping.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Accounting and bookkeeping. 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

  • Reviewing a big call after the fact (a bet that failed
  • A pass that haunts
  • A pivot) and the room is about to conclude it failed so it was wrong. Produces a process-forensics report: what was knowable then
  • The quality grade of the decision as-made

Example prompts

  • “it failed so it was wrong.”
  • “/decision-autopsy”

Workflow steps

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

  1. The two verdicts, separated — Decision: 🟢 sound / 🟡 flawed / 🔴 negligent as made. Outcome: good / bad / mixed. State them side by side…
  2. The knowability ledger — table: fact | knowable then? | actually known? | changed the call? Hindsight contamination gets flagged…
  3. The luck accounting — one honest paragraph: what fraction of this outcome was variance, with the reasoning shown.
  4. The one process change — a single, named, repeatable change to how decisions like this get made ("every >$100k bet gets a written…
  5. The replay line — "facing the same information again, the right call would be ___" — the sentence that inoculates the team against both…

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

Decision Autopsy loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 130 tokens; SKILL.md has 595 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~130
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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). 595 words, ~1,113 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/decision-autopsy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
decision-autopsy
description
Judge a past decision by its PROCESS, not its outcome — because good decisions lose and bad decisions win, and teams that can't tell the difference learn the wrong lessons. Use when reviewing a big call after the fact (a bet that failed, a pass that haunts, a hire, a pivot) and the room is about to conclude 'it failed so it was wrong.' Produces a process-forensics report: what was knowable then, the quality grade of the decision as-made, the luck accounting, and the ONE process change worth keeping.

Decision Autopsy

Outcome bias is the strongest bias in organisational memory: the bet that failed becomes "obviously reckless," the coin-flip that landed becomes "visionary." The autopsy separates the two questions that always get merged: was it a good decision? and did it get a good outcome? — because only the first is under anyone's control next time.

Required Inputs

  • The decision — what was decided, when, by whom, and what the live alternatives were.
  • What was knowable at the time — the information, constraints, and time pressure as of the decision date. Be strict: things learned afterward go in a separate pile, and the autopsy will police the boundary.
  • The outcome — what actually happened, so the luck accounting has something to account.

The Forensic Frames

  • The information test: given only what was knowable then, what would a calibrated outsider have chosen? (The autopsy answers this before re-examining the outcome, to keep hindsight out of the grade.)
  • The process test: were alternatives really generated? Was disconfirming evidence sought or only tolerated? Was the reversibility of the choice priced in? Was a kill-criterion set?
  • The luck accounting: decompose the outcome into decision quality vs. variance — what portion of the result would replay differently if the world rolled again?
  • The lesson filter: the only lessons worth keeping are process lessons ("we never priced reversibility") — outcome lessons ("don't bet on X") overfit to one roll of the dice.

Output Format

  1. The two verdicts, separated — Decision: 🟢 sound / 🟡 flawed / 🔴 negligent as made. Outcome: good / bad / mixed. State them side by side; the whole point is that they can disagree.
  2. The knowability ledger — table: fact | knowable then? | actually known? | changed the call? Hindsight contamination gets flagged explicitly ("this entered the story after the fact").
  3. The luck accounting — one honest paragraph: what fraction of this outcome was variance, with the reasoning shown.
  4. The one process change — a single, named, repeatable change to how decisions like this get made ("every >$100k bet gets a written kill-criterion before commitment"). One. Teams adopt one; they file lists.
  5. The replay line — "facing the same information again, the right call would be ___" — the sentence that inoculates the team against both regret and false confidence.
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Quality Checks

  • The decision grade was assigned from the knowability ledger BEFORE outcome discussion, and the report's structure shows it
  • At least one hindsight contamination is caught and named — reviews without any are usually not looking
  • The luck paragraph commits to a rough proportion, with reasoning — "some luck was involved" is evasion
  • The process change is executable next quarter and testable ("did we do it?"), not a value statement
  • If the decision was 🟢 and the outcome bad, the report says the uncomfortable sentence plainly: "do it again"

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not let the outcome leak into the grade — a bad result may not appear as evidence of a bad decision anywhere in the report
  • Do not run an autopsy as a trial — no verdicts on people; the unit of analysis is the process that any competent person was embedded in
  • Do not conclude "we were unlucky" without the ledger to earn it — luck is the residual after process is examined, never the headline
  • Do not extract more than one lesson — the second-best lesson dilutes the best one
  • Do not autopsy decisions younger than their outcome — if the result isn't actually in yet, this is a premortem's job

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Was this a bad decision or just bad luck?"
  • "Review the call we made last year."
  • "Judge this decision by its process, not the outcome."
  • "What should we learn from this failed bet?"

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Decision Autopsy

What does Decision Autopsy do?

Judge a past decision by its PROCESS, not its outcome — because good decisions lose and bad decisions win, and teams that can't tell the difference learn the wrong lessons. Decision Autopsy is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Judge a past decision by its PROCESS, not its outcome — because good decisions lose and bad decisions win, and teams that can't tell the difference learn the wrong lessons.

When should I use Decision Autopsy?

Decision Autopsy fits situations like: reviewing a big call after the fact (a bet that failed; A pass that haunts; A pivot) and the room is about to conclude it failed so it was wrong. Produces a process-forensics report: what was knowable then; the quality grade of the decision as-made.

How do I install Decision Autopsy in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Decision Autopsy in Codex?

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

Can I use Decision Autopsy 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 decision-autopsy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/decision-autopsy, .gemini/skills/decision-autopsy, .github/skills/decision-autopsy and .opencode/skills/decision-autopsy in your project.

What does Decision Autopsy need to run?

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

Does Decision Autopsy 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 Decision Autopsy 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 Decision Autopsy use?

Decision Autopsy 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 Decision Autopsy use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k 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 Decision Autopsy?

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.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.