decide

decide is a skill for Claude Code from ArcticFox2029/chamnan. It costs 93 tokens per session (2,172 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision procedure for checks and guards uses counted evidence, a cost-based threshold and a deliberately tested failure. A guard is a rule that blocks or allows an action.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing validation checks, gates and guards, including defining the population, threshold and test that demonstrates failure.
Why use it?
It replaces vague confidence with an explicit way to decide how strict a validation rule should be and to prove that the rule can catch a bad case.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the chamnan plugin — 11 skills, 2 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for designing validation checks, gates and guards, including defining the population, threshold and test that demonstrates failure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arcticfox2029/chamnan/decide
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 ArcticFox2029/chamnan --skill decide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArcticFox2029/chamnan

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install chamnan, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 2 agents, 6 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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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.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,172 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 $0.00093 $0.02172
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00869
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00217

Measured 23d ago against content hash 67338edfd3b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 23d 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.

skills/decide/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decide from counted evidence, not from an impression

Code calculates. A model reasons. This decides. The pattern is borrowed openly from the decision models now being built for agent systems, and one thing is deliberately different: the confidence here does not come from a model. It comes from evidence you counted. Nothing in this procedure calls out, and nothing about it needs a network.

That difference is the whole reason it can be trusted offline — and the reason step 3 is the one that cannot be skipped.


1 · Name the decision, and what being wrong costs

Write both before looking at anything. The cost sets the threshold; there is no global one.

"Is this file safe to edit?" Being wrong means the edit is silently discarded. "Does this component already exist?" Being wrong means a wasted afternoon, recoverable. "Is this a credential?" Being wrong once is the whole product failing.

One threshold per action, scaled to that cost. A single number for the whole system is how a gate ends up too strict for cheap mistakes and too loose for expensive ones.

2 · Write the questions before you look

Each question gets a type, and the type is one of three:

type shape example
choice one value from a set you named generated · hand-written · cannot tell
count a number, with what it is out of 26 of 28 planted credentials caught
yes/no with the evidence that decides it is a test command in this session's log?

Never a free-prose answer. Prose cannot be thresholded, cannot be compared to last week's, and cannot be checked by anybody else. If a question can only be answered in prose, it is not a decision — it is a discussion, and it belongs with a person.

3 · Answer each from something you counted — and record the count

This is the step that makes the rest honest.

A number you did not count is an impression wearing a number's clothes.

Where the counts come from, offline:

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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. 23d ago First seen · 172 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 67338edfd3b1

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decide is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArcticFox2029/chamnan (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 2,172 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-23.