making-decisions

making-decisions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from apple-ouyang/book-to-skill. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,974 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of Applicant Screening, MIT.

A structured guide for making important decisions under uncertainty. It uses the WRAP framework: widen the options, test assumptions, create distance from emotions, and prepare for mistakes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for significant choices such as selecting a technical approach, changing direction, allocating resources, or deciding between hard-to-reverse options.
Why use it?
It reduces narrow either-or thinking, untested assumptions, emotional reactions, and overconfidence about the outcome.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for significant choices such as selecting a technical approach, changing direction, allocating resources, or deciding between hard-to-reverse options.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/apple-ouyang/book-to-skill/making-decisions
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 apple-ouyang/book-to-skill --skill making-decisions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apple-ouyang/book-to-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,974 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00064 $0.01974
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00987
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00395
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00197

Measured 10d ago against content hash e46dba8a5458, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

making-decisions 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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to Applicant Screening — 321 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/making-decisions/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

决策引导框架(WRAP)

第一步:快速分类

先判断决策性质,再决定投入多少精力:

维度 判断 策略
可逆性 可逆(换工具、试新方向) 快决策,错了可以调整
可逆性 不可逆(结婚、辞职、大额投资) 慢决策,走完整 WRAP
投入度 低投入 直接试,不需要框架
投入度 高投入(核心资源、时间、金钱) 走完整流程

亦仁原则:不可逆的决策要慢,可逆的决策要快。不要在状态很差时做决策(吵架后、深夜、极度疲惫时)。


WRAP 四步骨架

面临选择 → [思维狭隘]  → W: 拓宽选择
分析选项 → [先入为主]  → R: 验证假设   ← 调度子 Skill
做出选择 → [情绪影响]  → A: 留出距离
接受结果 → [过度自信]  → P: 准备出错   ← 调度子 Skill

W:拓宽选择

警惕信号:决策形式是「要不要做 X」「是否选 A」——这是思维狭隘的典型症状。只有 6% 的「是否」型决策被评为「非常好」,而有两个以上选项的决策有 40% 被评为「非常好」。

消失选项测试

如果当前所有选项都不可行,你会怎么办?

强迫自己离开现有选项,往往能发现真正的第三条路。

  • Margaret Sanders 案例:纠结要不要开除接待员 Anna(业务能力强但不适合前台)。消除「开除 or 留下」的二选一后,发现第三条路——调岗做全职行政,前台用低成本实习生。
  • $14.99 视频研究:问「买不买这部片?」75% 说买;改成「买这部片,还是留着 $14.99 买别的?」拒绝率从 25% 翻倍到 45%。仅仅提醒「还有其他选项」就改变了决策。
  • 英特尔 CEO 格鲁夫:「如果我们被辞掉了,董事会推选上来一名新总裁,你认为他会怎么做?」
  • 丈夫想辞职案例:妻子问「要不要让他辞职」,这是典型的「是否」型窄框架。消失选项测试:假设辞职被禁止,他被迫留在现有岗位 5 年,他会怎么做让现状变好?这个问题往往能发现「重新配置现有工作」的第三条路,比直接辞职更低风险。

机会成本思维

做这件事花的时间和钱,如果不做,还能做什么?

不只问「要不要做」,还要问「如果不做,剩下的资源能做什么更有价值的事」。

  • 艾森豪威尔轰炸机案例:面对军费预算决策,艾森豪威尔把一架新轰炸机的成本换算成:多少所学校、多少座发电厂、多少家医院。这个「换算」让抽象的数字变成了真实的机会成本,迫使决策者正视「选这个就放弃了什么」。

赛马法(同时追踪多个选项)

不要只打磨一个方案,同时推进 2-3 个选项。同时评估多个方案的决策质量显著高于单一方案迭代。

  • Anne Mulcahy 拯救 Xerox:接手濒临破产的 Xerox 后,Mulcahy 规定所有关键职位必须同时考察至少 3 名候选人,不允许只有一个选项。这个强制多轨制度让人事决策质量大幅提升,是 Xerox 复苏的关键因素之一。

「这个还是那个」→「既要也要」

当陷入二选一时,问:有没有办法同时得到两者的核心价值?

继任者问题

如果明天有人接替我的工作,他会怎么做?

用局外人视角打破路径依赖。


R:验证假设

警惕信号:你在「预测」某件事会不会成功,而不是去测试它。

→ 调度 /reality-testing-decisions(用实验替代预测)

警惕信号:决策感觉很明显,或者周围人都同意。

→ 调度 /seeking-disconfirming-evidence(主动寻找反对证据)


A:留出思考距离

警惕信号:情绪激动、被人催促、感觉「现在不决定就来不及了」。

10/10/10 法则

这个决定,10 分钟后我会怎么看?10 个月后?10 年后?

用时间拉伸判断决策的真实重量。很多「紧急」的决定,10 年后根本不重要。

  • 丈夫辞职的 10/10/10:辞职后 10 分钟感觉很爽;但 10 个月后,如果还没找到新工作,感觉如何?这个时间拉伸让短期情绪冷却,暴露出「辞职前先找好下家」才是更理性的路径。

好朋友视角

如果是我最好的朋友面临这种情况,我会建议他怎么做?

把自己从当事人变成旁观者,情绪干扰立刻减少。Sophia 纠结了一整年要不要搬去芝加哥改善社交生活,问她「你会建议最好的朋友怎么做?」她脱口而出:「搬去芝加哥!」——答案一直在那里,只是被自己的恐惧挡住了。

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 150 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A e46dba8a5458

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making-decisions is a skill published in the GitHub repository apple-ouyang/book-to-skill (130 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,974 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to Applicant Screening, differing in 321 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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