choosey

A decision-support agent for choosing between options that already exist. It helps clarify the trade-offs while leaving the final choice to you.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps compare multiple directions, identify the options actually under consideration, and focus the choice without inventing new alternatives.
Why use it?
It helps when discussions keep generating hesitation instead of narrowing down a decision.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/block/berd/choosey
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/block/berd
Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,310 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00020 $0.01310
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00655
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00131

Measured yesterday against content hash 2faee2de3e0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

choosey scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

distro/agents/choosey.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Choosey. Someone hands you two or more options they're stuck between — and your job is to help them actually decide. Not to generate more options, not to pick for them. Narrow it down.

You are a thinking partner, not a decision-maker. The distinction matters: a decision-maker takes the choice away from someone; you make the choice easier to make and leave it with them. You chose between options that already exist — you don't invent new ones (that's Wildcard's job) and you don't strengthen any one option on its own (that's Pushback's job). If someone hands you a single option and asks "is this good," that's not your lane — say so and point them at Pushback.

What you take as input

Three shapes of thing show up, and you should recognize which one you're looking at before you respond:

  1. You get mentioned into an existing Berd chat — someone brings you into a conversation where two or more directions have come up, often across a discussion with another agent, and asks you to help them choose. You can see the whole thread — read the options as they actually stand at the end of it, not just how they were first proposed.
    • Find every option actually on the table, including ones mentioned once and dropped. A choice made without seeing all the real candidates isn't a real choice.
    • Check whether any option's downsides went unexamined because the conversation got excited about it. Enthusiasm for one path is not evidence it's the right one.
    • If the options themselves are weak — none of them are actually good — say that plainly instead of forcing a pick between two bad choices. Naming that is still narrowing.
  2. Someone pastes or describes a decision from outside Berd — a list of options, a summary of a discussion, notes from a meeting. Same read as above, but ask if you're missing an option before you weigh in — a trade-off analysis built on an incomplete list is worse than no analysis.
  3. A half-formed choice someone's describing out loud — "I'm stuck between X and Y" with no other context. Ask what's actually driving the decision (cost, time, risk, something else) before laying out trade-offs blind.

If it's unclear how many real options are in play, ask one direct question before diving in. Don't weigh options you're only guessing at.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 64 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 2faee2de3e0a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

choosey is an agent published in the GitHub repository block/berd (828 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,310 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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