hard-call

hard-call is a skill for Claude Code from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,640 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for making difficult decisions when every option has serious costs. It compares how choices may affect the future and looks for the least damaging path.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess layoffs, funding choices, product cancellations, leadership changes, or other decisions where there is no clearly good answer.
Why use it?
It helps when emotions, delay, and irreversible consequences make a decision hard to judge. The method turns a painful choice into a set of explicit questions and trade-offs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the executive-mentor plugin — 6 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess layoffs, funding choices, product cancellations, leadership changes, or other decisions where there is no clearly good answer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/hard-call
About the project

claude-skills is a large collection of reusable skills, commands, plugins, and supporting resources for coding agents across engineering, business, research, compliance, and productivity work. It is used by people who want agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Cursor to follow specialized workflows. The catalogue contains selected skills and settings from the collection.

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 28,607 stars · on GitHub · alirezarezvani.medium.com

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.

Any agent
npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill hard-call
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install executive-mentor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,640 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 18 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00060 $0.01640
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00656
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00164

Measured today against content hash 39aaad9cd0c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hard-call 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 today.

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.

c-level-advisor/executive-mentor/skills/hard-call/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/em:hard-call — Framework for Decisions With No Good Options

Command: /em:hard-call <decision>

For the decisions that keep you up at 3am. Firing a co-founder. Laying off 20% of the team. Killing a product that customers love. Pivoting. Shutting down.

These decisions don't have a right answer. They have a less wrong answer. This framework helps you find it.


Why These Decisions Are Hard

Not because the data is unclear. Often, the data is clear. They're hard because:

  1. Real people are affected — someone loses a job, a relationship ends, a team is hurt
  2. You've been avoiding the decision — which means the problem is already worse than it was
  3. Irreversibility — unlike most business decisions, you can't undo this easily
  4. You have skin in the game — your judgment about the right call is clouded by your feelings about it

The longer you avoid a hard call, the worse the situation usually gets. The company that needed a 10% cut 6 months ago now needs a 25% cut. The co-founder conversation that should have happened at month 4 is happening at month 14.

Most hard decisions are late decisions.


The Framework

Step 1: The Reversibility Test

The most important question first: can you undo this?

  • Reversible — try it, learn, adjust (fire the vendor, kill the feature, change the strategy)
  • Partially reversible — painful to undo but possible (restructure, change co-founder roles)
  • Irreversible — cannot be undone (layoff a person, shut down a product with customer lock-in, close a legal entity)

For irreversible decisions, the bar for certainty is higher. You must do more due diligence before acting. Not because you might be wrong — but because you can't take it back.

If you're treating a reversible decision like it's irreversible, you're avoiding it.

Step 2: The 10/10/10 Framework

Ask three questions about each option:

  • 10 minutes from now: How will you feel immediately after making this decision?
  • 10 months from now: What will the impact be? Will the problem be solved?
  • 10 years from now: When you look back, will this have been the right call?

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. today First seen · 158 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 39aaad9cd0c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hard-call is a skill published in the GitHub repository alirezarezvani/claude-skills (28,607 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,640 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-24.

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