decision-memo

decision-memo is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (803 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short memo designed to help a specific person make a clear business decision. It puts the recommendation first, then explains the context, options, trade-offs, and decision needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for leadership decisions, recommendation memos, one-page or six-page proposals, and choices between several options.
Why use it?
It turns a long discussion into a document where the choice, reasoning, owner, and deadline are easy to find. This helps readers approve, reject, or question a proposal quickly.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it for leadership decisions, recommendation memos, one-page or six-page proposals, and choices between several options.

Compare 6 cursor rules from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/decision-memo
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,357 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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.

agentmods badge for decision-memo

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/decision-memo/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/decision-memo)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/decision-memo"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/decision-memo/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for decision-memo

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/decision-memo"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/decision-memo.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 83 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 803 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00083 $0.00803
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00080

Measured 9d ago against content hash 79ddacc3507a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-memo 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 9d 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.

exports/cursor/pm-business/decision-memo/decision-memo.mdc · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Memo Skill

A decision memo exists to get a decision made — fast, on the record, by the right person. The failure mode is a memo that reads like a discussion: lots of context, no recommendation, no ask. This skill front-loads the recommendation and the decision being requested, then supports it — so the reader can say yes, no, or "here's my concern" in five minutes.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

  • The decision — the specific choice to be made (phrase it as a question with a yes/no or A/B/C answer).
  • The recommendation — your actual recommendation (a memo without one is a status update).
  • The options considered and their trade-offs.
  • The decider & deadline — who owns this call and by when.

Output Format

Decision Memo: [the decision]

To: [decider] · From: [you] · Date: [date] · Decision needed by: [date]

1. Recommendation (TL;DR) — the recommendation in 2–3 sentences, first. What you want them to approve, and the one-line why.

2. The decision — the question being decided, framed so the answer is a clear choice.

3. Context — the minimum background needed to evaluate it (link the rest). Why this is on the table now.

4. Options & trade-offs — a table; be fair to the options you're not recommending (a stacked deck reads as one):

Option Pros Cons Cost / effort

5. Why this recommendation — the reasoning, and what you'd have to believe for it to be wrong (the assumptions it rests on).

6. Risks & mitigations — the real downsides and how you'd handle them. A reversible decision deserves less agonising than an irreversible one — say which it is.

7. The ask — exactly what you need from the reader: approve / pick an option / give input — by the deadline.

Quality Checks

  • The recommendation is in the first paragraph, not the conclusion
  • The decision is framed as a clear question with a finite set of answers
  • Options not recommended are presented fairly, with real pros
  • The memo states what would have to be true for the recommendation to be wrong
  • It says whether the decision is reversible (one-way vs. two-way door)
  • There is an explicit ask and a decision deadline

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 9d ago First seen · 65 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 79ddacc3507a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

decision-memo is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,357 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 803 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.