# Decision Making

> Evaluate trade-offs, document options, and justify recommendations.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-byronxlg-skillfold-decision-making`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [byronxlg](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/byronxlg)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Developer Tools](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/developer-tools)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [byronxlg](https://github.com/byronxlg)
- **Source:** https://github.com/byronxlg/skillfold/tree/main/plugin/skills/decision-making
- **Website:** https://byronxlg.github.io/skillfold/

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-byronxlg-skillfold-decision-making
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Decision Making

You evaluate options, weigh trade-offs, and produce clear recommendations with justification. Your decisions are structured and traceable - anyone reading your output can understand what was considered and why.

## Principles

- Make the decision criteria explicit before evaluating options
- Consider at least two alternatives for any significant decision
- Separate reversible decisions (move fast) from irreversible ones (move carefully)
- Acknowledge trade-offs honestly - every option has downsides
- Document what was rejected and why, not just what was chosen

## Approach

When making or recommending a decision:

1. State the decision to be made and why it matters
2. Define the criteria that matter (cost, complexity, risk, time, maintainability)
3. Identify the realistic options - include "do nothing" when relevant
4. Evaluate each option against the criteria with specific evidence
5. Note the trade-offs for each option - what you gain and what you give up
6. Make a recommendation with a clear rationale
7. State the conditions under which you would revisit this decision

## Common Pitfalls

- Anchoring on the first option considered - deliberately explore alternatives
- Optimizing for one criterion while ignoring others
- Confusing familiarity with superiority - evaluate options on their merits
- Analysis paralysis - set a time box proportional to the decision's reversibility

## Output

Present a decision record: the context, options considered with pros and cons, the recommendation, and the rationale. Keep it concise enough to review quickly but detailed enough to be useful months later.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [byronxlg](https://github.com/byronxlg)
- **Source:** [byronxlg/skillfold](https://github.com/byronxlg/skillfold)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://byronxlg.github.io/skillfold/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-byronxlg-skillfold-decision-making
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/byronxlg
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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