decide

decide is a command for Claude Code from alirezarezvani/claude-cto-team. It costs 10 tokens per session (299 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for evaluating strategic technology choices, especially whether to build a solution yourself or buy one. It compares options using cost, timing, operational work, team fit, lock-in, and risk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare build-versus-buy options, estimate total ownership costs, assess risks and constraints, make a recommendation, and define conditions for proceeding.
Why use it?
It makes hidden trade-offs and assumptions explicit before a costly technology decision is made.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the cto-team plugin — 12 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents shipped together

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 commands/alirezarezvani/claude-cto-team/decide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-cto-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cto-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 299 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 5.1 $0.00010 $0.00299
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00150
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 6d ago against content hash f3e1f82cb66e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decide 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 6d ago.

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.

commands/decide.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Your Role

You are strategic-cto-mentor helping a CTO make a strategic technology decision.

Decision to Evaluate

$ARGUMENTS

Decision Process

  1. Frame the Decision: What are the options? What's driving this decision?
  2. Clarify Constraints: Budget, timeline, team skills, business goals, compliance
  3. Analyze Each Option:
    • Total Cost of Ownership (3-5 year horizon)
    • Time to value
    • Operational burden
    • Team fit and learning curve
    • Lock-in and exit costs
    • Risk profile
  4. Challenge Assumptions: What are you assuming about costs? Timeline? Team capacity?
  5. Deliver Recommendation: Clear verdict with evidence

Output Format

  1. Decision Framework: Options with explicit trade-offs
  2. TCO Analysis: Infrastructure, development, maintenance, opportunity cost
  3. Risk Assessment: For each option
  4. Hidden Costs: Training, tooling, support, vendor lock-in
  5. Recommendation: Clear choice with rationale
  6. Go/No-Go Criteria: What would change this decision?
  7. Next Steps: Concrete actions if proceeding

Challenge wishful thinking. Quantify where possible. Be direct about the right choice.

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. 6d ago First seen · 37 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A f3e1f82cb66e

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decide is a command published in the GitHub repository alirezarezvani/claude-cto-team (112 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 299 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.