sdd-decision-log

sdd-decision-log is a skill for Claude Code from danweinerdev/claude-sdd-planner. It costs 70 tokens per session (645 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule set for recording important project decisions in a durable decision log.

In plain words
What is it for?
Capturing decisions, definitions, answers to design questions, reversals, and other choices that should remain project-wide guidance.
Why use it?
It prevents design and architecture choices from being lost in temporary conversations or documents and helps detect conflicts with earlier decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the sdd-planner plugin — 34 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Capturing decisions, definitions, answers to design questions, reversals, and other choices that should remain project-wide guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danweinerdev/claude-sdd-planner/sdd-decision-log
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 danweinerdev/claude-sdd-planner --skill sdd-decision-log
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danweinerdev/claude-sdd-planner

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdd-planner, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 8 agents.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 645 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 $0.00070 $0.00645
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00322
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00064

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3787fa35f6da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdd-decision-log 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 8d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.codex-plugin/skills/sdd-decision-log/SKILL.md · 23 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 23 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Log — Capture and Collision Discipline

The full convention (entry schema, lifecycle rules, collision procedure, distribution rules) lives in shared/decision-log.md in the plugin directory — read it before your first ledger write of a session. This skill exists so decision moments outside the lifecycle skills still reach the ledger.

Resolve the ledger per shared/decision-log.md § Ledger location — <planning-root>/Decisions/decisions.md for an in-repo planning root, <repo-root>/DECISIONS.md when the planning root is external (decisions live with the repo they represent). Create it from shared/templates/decision-log.md if missing.

When the user just decided something

  1. Recognize the moment: a stated choice between alternatives, a definition of a project term, an answer to a design question, or an explicit reversal. Then apply the admission test (shared/decision-log.md § Capture) before writing anything: the truth has to outlive the document being worked on, not already be carried by that document, and have had a real alternative that lost. Status updates, task events, one-off dispositions, and choices that a spec or design already states in full are not ledger entries — leaving them where they are is the correct outcome, not a miss.
  2. Run the collision check first (shared/decision-log.md § Collision Detection): grep the ledger for the new entry's tags, scope, and key nouns; apply the structural checks; judge survivors. On contradicts/supersedes → STOP and present both entries for the user to reconcile. Never auto-resolve, never pick by recency.
  3. Draft the entry (next sequential D-NNNN, decided_by: user only if the user actually stated the choice — otherwise status: proposed) and show the exact, complete entry text to the user for explicit approval before writing anything. The ledger is never edited without that approval — the decision being the user's does not make the write approved, and non-objection is not approval. If the user amends the entry, show the amended text and get approval again.
  4. Only after explicit approval: append the approved text verbatim, update the ledger's updated date, and confirm the frontmatter still parses as YAML. Confirm in one line (e.g., "Recorded as D-0007 in the decision ledger").

Read the full file on GitHub · 23 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. 8d ago First seen · 23 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 3787fa35f6da

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sdd-decision-log is a skill published in the GitHub repository danweinerdev/claude-sdd-planner (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 645 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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