decide

decide is a command for coding agents from valsecchi75/project-scaffolder. It costs 29 tokens per session (427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided record for documenting an important design or product choice, including the problem, alternatives, reasoning, and consequences. It adds each entry to a decisions file with a numbered ID.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing between technical approaches, product plans, or policy options. It helps create a consistent decision history for a project.
Why use it?
It keeps the reasoning behind past choices from being lost or reduced to unexplained code. It also shows when a decision replaces an earlier one without deleting the original.

Command

Part of the project-scaffolder plugin — 7 skills, 19 commands, 2 hooks 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/valsecchi75/project-scaffolder/decide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/valsecchi75/project-scaffolder

Or install project-scaffolder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 19 commands, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 427 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 $0.00029 $0.00427
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 3d ago against content hash d5161248e01a, 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 3d 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 · 61 lines

What it actually says

/decide

Record a decision with its context, alternatives, and rationale.

Usage

/decide <short title>

Examples

/decide Switch from SQLite to Isar for subscription storage
/decide Require biometric auth for premium tier
/decide Freemium model with 5-subscription free cap

Prompt flow

Guide the user through:

  1. Problem: what question does this decision answer?
  2. Options considered: minimum 2 alternatives, each with pros/cons
  3. Decision: which option, in one sentence
  4. Rationale: why this option beats the others
  5. Consequences: what becomes true; what is closed off
  6. Status: tag [DECISION] or [HYPOTHESIS] (if reversible)
  7. Supersedes: if this replaces a prior decision, list the DEC-NNN

Output

Append to wiki/product/decisions.md:

## DEC-NNN: <title>
**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD | **Status:** [DECISION|HYPOTHESIS] | **Supersedes:** DEC-XXX (if any)

**Problem:** ...
**Options:**
- Option A: ...
- Option B: ...
**Decision:** ...
**Rationale:** ...
**Consequences:** ...

If a superseded decision exists: edit DEC-XXX to add ~~Superseded by DEC-NNN~~ while preserving the original text.

Rules

  • Never delete prior decisions — always supersede.
  • Minimum 2 options considered — if only one was evaluated, ask "what else did you consider?".
  • Auto-increment DEC-NNN from the highest existing ID in the file.
  • If no wiki/product/decisions.md exists: suggest /scaffold first.
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. 3d ago First seen · 61 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A d5161248e01a

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decide is a command published in the GitHub repository valsecchi75/project-scaffolder (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 427 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 2026-08-31.