decide

A structured technical decision process that compares options, records the choice, and creates an Agent Decision Record, a written history of why the decision was made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a library, deciding how to implement caching, or making another technical decision that should be documented.
Why use it?
It turns an informal coding choice into a reviewable decision with its context, trade-offs, and justification.

Command

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/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins/decide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 649 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 $0.00000 $0.00649
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00065

Measured yesterday against content hash 86929a889ea4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

plugins/agent-decision-record/commands/decide.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/decide - Technical Decision Gate

Forces structured decision-making and creates an auditable Agent Decision Record (AgDR).

Trigger

/decide "what you're deciding"
/decide which state management library to use
/decide how to implement caching

Process

1. Parse Decision Topic

Extract the decision topic from input. If unclear, ask:

What technical decision do you need to make?

2. Gather Context

Identify decision-relevant context only:

  • What problem are we solving?
  • What constraints exist?
  • What's already in the codebase?

3. List Options

Present 2-4 options in a table:

| Option | Pros | Cons |
|--------|------|------|
| Option A | ... | ... |
| Option B | ... | ... |

4. Make Decision

State the chosen option with justification.

5. Generate AgDR

Create file at {project-root}/docs/agdr/AgDR-{NNNN}-{slug}.md:

---
id: AgDR-{NNNN}
timestamp: {ISO-8601: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ}
agent: claude-code
model: {model-id from environment}
session: {session-id if available}
trigger: user-prompt
status: executed
---

# {short title}

> In the context of {context}, facing {concern}, I decided {decision} to achieve {goal}, accepting {tradeoff}.

## Context
{Decision-relevant context only - 2-4 bullets}

## Options Considered
| Option | Pros | Cons |
|--------|------|------|
| ... | ... | ... |

## Decision
Chosen: **{option}**, because {justification}.

## Consequences
- {consequence 1}
- {consequence 2}

## Artifacts
- {commit/PR links when available}

6. Get Next ID

# Find highest existing AgDR number
ls docs/agdr/AgDR-*.md 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1 | grep -oP 'AgDR-\K\d+'
# Increment by 1, or start at 0001

7. Return Decision

Output the decision so work can continue:

Decision: {chosen option}

AgDR-{NNNN} created at docs/agdr/AgDR-{NNNN}-{slug}.md

Proceeding with: {brief action}

Rules

  1. Always create AgDR - No decision without a record
  2. Context is minimal - Only what influenced the decision
  3. Y-statement required - One-line summary at top
  4. Options table required - At least 2 options compared
  5. Justification required - "because" clause mandatory
  6. Timestamp precise - Full ISO-8601 with time
  7. Slug from title - Lowercase, hyphens, max 50 chars

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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 · 111 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 86929a889ea4

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decide is a command published in the GitHub repository ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins (926 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 649 tokens. 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.