Forki

galmuri:forki — Decision Forcing

Pattern: binary → roles → trade-off → forced choice. This is a decision skill, not an explanation skill. If the user already has a verdict and only needs slides, route to galmuri:deck (preset decision-sandwich-6); if they need a summary of a decision doc, route to galmuri:distill / explain / doc.

Entry Check

If invoked with no context (no decision topic, no problem description): → Ask: "어떤 결정이 필요한가요? 고민 중인 상황을 설명해주세요. e.g. Postgres vs SQLite for the new service, hire vs contract for the data role." → Wait for user response before proceeding to Step 0.

Mode — HITL only

| Category | Steps | LLM authority | |---|---|---| | Auto query | 0 (query) | Full | | Flow gate | 0 (decision) | None — trust / reopen | | Verdict gate | 1, 3, 6 | None — user states it | | Confirmation gate | 2, 5 | Propose only | | Scaffold (skippable) | 4, 7 | Propose, user skip | | Side effect (opt-out) | 8 | y / n |

LLM proposes; user confirms before next step. No autonomous mode.

References (load once, reuse)

| File | First loaded at | Used for | |---|---|---| | references/protocol.md | Step 1 (first HITL) | All HITL prompts, response rule parsing, report templates | | references/asset.md | Step 0 entry, or Step 8 entry if Step 0 was skipped | Bash query/record blocks for .galmuri/ |

Each reference is loaded at most once per forki invocation and reused across all subsequent steps. See Context Budget below for the exhaustive read/write inventory.

Step 0: Past-Decision Query (optional)

→ Load references/asset.md and execute the Step 0 query block as documented there. The full branching logic (trust / reopen / skip on absent / skip on no match) lives in asset.md.

Step 1: Binary

Exactly 2 options. 3+ → collapse to "do A vs everything else". "It depends" → ask user to constrain.

→ HITL via Step 1 prompt in references/protocol.md. Wait for explicit confirmation. Output: A vs B, one line.

Step 2: One-Line Reduction

Compress to one sentence: "Who executes X?" / "Who owns X?" / "What changes when X?"

→ HITL via Step 2 prompt in references/protocol.md. Reject → propose alternative. Reject again → back to Step 1 (binary is wrong).

Step 3: Role Decomposition (D/E/V/R)

On entry, output first line: Step 3 attempt {n}/3. {n} starts at 1 on first Step 3 entry; +1 on each back-jump from Step 5/6/7. On attempt 3/3, this is the last allowed run (2 back-jumps total). If forki would back-jump to Step 3 again from this attempt, abort instead: "forki could not converge after 2 back-jumps. Gather more context outside this skill."

Fill all 4 roles per option:

| Role | Question | |---|---| | Decision | Who judges? | | Execution | Who acts? | | Validation | Who verifies? | | Recovery | Who fixes when broken? |

→ HITL via Step 3 prompt in references/protocol.md. LLM may draft; user confirms or overrides each cell. Empty ? → re-ask only those cells.

Step 4: Three Examples (scaffold)

→ HITL via Step 4 prompt in references/protocol.md. Skip when concrete enough or user says skip. Record skip in report.

Step 5: Trade-off

A: gains {X}, loses {Y}
B: gains {Y}, loses {X}

Axes: flexibility↔stability, speed↔safety, autonomy↔control.

→ HITL via Step 5 prompt in references/protocol.md.

• User says "don't care about X" → strike axis, propose new (stay in Step 5).
• Both options gain/lose the same → not real trade-off → back-jump to Step 3.

Step 6: Forced Choice

> Choice: Option {A|B}. Reason: {one structural reason}.

→ HITL via Step 6 prompt in references/protocol.md. LLM must not answer for the user, must not signal a preference. "You choose" → reply: "forki cannot decide for you."

User truly cannot choose → back-jump to Step 3.

Step 7: Comprehension Check (scaffold)

→ HITL via Step 7 prompt in references/protocol.md. Cannot answer all 3 → back-jump to Step 3. Skip on skip.

Step 8: Record as Decision Asset (side effect, opt-out)

Trigger: runs only after Step 6 reaches a verdict (and Step 7 if not skipped). If forki aborts at any earlier step (counter 3/3, user Stop, Step 0 trust reuse, etc.), Step 8 does not run.

→ Load references/asset.md for sub-steps 8.0 / 8.1 / 8.2 (pre-check, HITL, write+record).

Side effect, not gate: the Step 6 verdict stands regardless of Step 8 outcome.

Context Budget

forki is a thinking skill, not a reading skill.

Reference loading: see References section above (single source of truth).

Filesystem I/O:

| Operation | When | |---|---| | Read .galmuri/assets/*.jsonl (tag-filtered) | Step 0 only. Skip if directory absent. | | Write /tmp/forki-{ts}.md | Step 8 sub-step 8.2 only, after y confirmation. | | Append .galmuri/assets/decision-{ts}.jsonl (1 line) | Step 8 sub-step 8.2 only, via scripts/record-asset.sh. |

Maximum 2 references in context simultaneously (protocol.md + asset.md).

Prohibited

• More than 2 options in Step 1
• Skipping any verdict gate (Steps 1, 3, 6)
• Treating Steps 4 / 7 as gates
• LLM picking the final choice in Step 6
• Interpreting yes / ok / 응 as confirmation. Always re-ask.
• Proceeding on silence
• Both / depends / later as final choice
• Reading files to "gather more info" (without explicit user request)
• Trade-offs where both options gain / lose the same thing
• Initializing .galmuri/ from forki
• Recording an asset on user n. Honor opt-out.
• Inlining HITL prompts or report templates in this file — they live in references/protocol.md
• "FYI..." style supplementary information
• Verbose decision reports

Source & license

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

• Author: jazz1x
• Source: jazz1x/galmuri
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://skills.sh/jazz1x/galmuri

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