Agent skill

Decision Helper

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Help me decide between options with a weighted pros/cons that actually reaches a recommendation — not just two lists.

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Install Decision Helper

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills decision-helper --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-helper .claude/skills/decision-helper && 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-helper
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~998 tokens
SKILL.md length
517 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Help me decide between options with a weighted pros/cons that actually reaches a recommendation — not just two lists.

  • Works in 6 steps: Criteria before options. Name what a… → Weight honestly. If money is 3× more… → Score, then total. Each option × each… → …
  • Asked should I take job A
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Decide, Don't Just… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Decision Helper is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Help me decide between options with a weighted pros/cons that actually reaches a recommendation — not just two lists. Use when asked should I take job A or B, which one should I buy, help me decide, or make a pro/con list. Produces the criteria that matter (weighted by what you care about), the options scored against them, a clear recommendation with its confidence, and the single question that would flip the decision if you're still torn.

Its SKILL.md is about 1000 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 should I take job A
  • Which one should I buy
  • Make a pro/con list

Example prompts

  • “/decision-helper”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Criteria before options. Name what a good outcome depends on before looking at the choices, so scoring isn't rationalised.
  2. Weight honestly. If money is 3× more important than commute, say so — equal weights are a hidden lie.
  3. Score, then total. Each option × each criterion; the math surfaces where a "close call" actually isn't.
  4. Commit to a lean. State the recommendation and its confidence — "narrowly A" is more useful than "it depends."
  5. Name the tiebreaker. The one fact that would change the answer tells you what to research next.
  6. Respect the gut. If the math says A but your stomach sinks, that mismatch is a criterion you haven't named yet.

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 Helper loads about 998 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 115 tokens; SKILL.md has 517 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~115
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~998

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). 517 words, ~998 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/decision-helper/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
decision-helper
description
Help me decide between options with a weighted pros/cons that actually reaches a recommendation — not just two lists. Use when asked should I take job A or B, which one should I buy, help me decide, or make a pro/con list. Produces the criteria that matter (weighted by what you care about), the options scored against them, a clear recommendation with its confidence, and the single question that would flip the decision if you're still torn.

Decision Helper

Pro/con lists fail because they treat every point as equal and stop before deciding. This does the honest version: it pulls out the criteria that actually matter to you, weights them, scores each option, and then commits to a recommendation — while naming the one unknown that, if resolved, would change the answer. It helps you decide, not just organise the agonising.

What This Skill Produces

  • The criteria, weighted — what actually matters here, and how much (not a flat list)
  • The scored comparison — each option against each criterion
  • A recommendation — a clear lean, with how confident and why
  • The tiebreaker question — the one unknown that would flip it, so you know what to go find out
  • The gut-check — a prompt to notice if the "winner" makes you uneasy (that's data too)

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The options — what you're choosing between (2+ concrete choices)
  • What matters to you — money, growth, stress, location, values… (or the skill will propose criteria and ask you to weight them)
  • The stakes & reversibility — one-way door or easily undone? (changes how much rigor is worth)
  • Any hard constraints — deal-breakers that filter options before scoring

Framework: Decide, Don't Just List

  1. Criteria before options. Name what a good outcome depends on before looking at the choices, so scoring isn't rationalised.
  2. Weight honestly. If money is 3× more important than commute, say so — equal weights are a hidden lie.
  3. Score, then total. Each option × each criterion; the math surfaces where a "close call" actually isn't.
  4. Commit to a lean. State the recommendation and its confidence — "narrowly A" is more useful than "it depends."
  5. Name the tiebreaker. The one fact that would change the answer tells you what to research next.
  6. Respect the gut. If the math says A but your stomach sinks, that mismatch is a criterion you haven't named yet.
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Output Format

Deciding: [option A] vs [option B] · reversibility: [one-way / easy]
Weighted criteria
CriterionWeightAB
…high/med/lowscorescore
Recommendation

Lean: [option] — confidence [high/medium/low]. Why: …

Tiebreaker: the one thing to find out — [question]. Gut-check: does the winner sit right? If not, what's the unnamed criterion?

Quality Checks

  • Criteria were drawn from what the user cares about, then weighted (not equal by default)
  • Each option is scored against each criterion
  • A clear recommendation is given, with confidence — not "it depends"
  • The single decision-flipping unknown is named
  • Reversibility is factored into how much certainty is worth chasing
  • The gut-check prompt is included

Anti-Patterns

  • A flat pro/con list with no weights and no decision.
  • False precision — inventing exact scores for things you can't know; use ranges and label assumptions.
  • Refusing to recommend — "both have merits" is the one thing the user came to avoid.
  • Ignoring reversibility — agonising over an easily-undone choice, or rushing a one-way door.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Help me decide between two job offers."
  • "Which laptop should I buy — here are three?"
  • "Should I move cities for this role? Make it a weighted decision."
  • "I'm torn between two apartments — help me choose."
  • "Make a real pro/con list and actually tell me what to pick."

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Decision Helper

What does Decision Helper do?

Help me decide between options with a weighted pros/cons that actually reaches a recommendation — not just two lists. Decision Helper is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Help me decide between options with a weighted pros/cons that actually reaches a recommendation — not just two lists.

When should I use Decision Helper?

Decision Helper fits situations like: asked should I take job A; which one should I buy; make a pro/con list.

How do I install Decision Helper in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Decision Helper in Codex?

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

Can I use Decision Helper 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-helper -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-helper, .gemini/skills/decision-helper, .github/skills/decision-helper and .opencode/skills/decision-helper in your project.

What does Decision Helper need to run?

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

Does Decision Helper 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 Helper 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 Helper use?

Decision Helper 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 Helper use?

About 998 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Decision Helper?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Decision Helper: Options (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars), Decide (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars), Page Weight (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars) and Decide (superset-sh/superset, 15k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Decision Helper?

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.