decision-making-under-pressure

decision-making-under-pressure is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 95 tokens per session (3,554 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to making important decisions under pressure, including reframing the problem, balancing intuition with analysis, and knowing when to stop deliberating.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a direction quickly, assessing high-stakes options, or deciding with limited data.
Why use it?
It addresses stalled decisions, overthinking, incomplete information, and small compromises that can become repeated habits.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the foreman plugin — 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when choosing a direction quickly, assessing high-stakes options, or deciding with limited data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/decision-making-under-pressure
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 fatihguner/foreman --skill decision-making-under-pressure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install foreman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,554 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 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 $0.00095 $0.03554
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01777
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00711
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00355

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5501aa4b249e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-making-under-pressure 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 4d 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.

plugins/foreman/skills/decision-making-under-pressure/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read runtime and advisory rules before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in ../../content/, relative to this SKILL.md.

Decision-Making Under Pressure

TIMER. Every undecided decision carries a holding cost -- and most leaders dramatically underestimate it. Projects stall waiting for approval. Teams hedge because direction is unclear. Competitors move while deliberation continues. The holding cost is invisible because it appears on no balance sheet, but it compounds daily: in lost momentum, in eroded team confidence, in the narrowing of options that occurs while a leader searches for certainty that will never arrive. Clayton Christensen observed that the most dangerous phrase in a leader's vocabulary is "just this once" -- a phrase that makes ethical and strategic erosion feel costless. Thomas Davenport's research suggests that the question is rarely whether a leader has enough information to decide, but whether they have the courage to decide with the information they have.

The cognitive science of decision-making -- Kahneman's System 1 and System 2, the taxonomy of biases -- is covered elsewhere in this system. What follows is the applied practice: the daily habits that separate leaders who decide well under pressure from those who decide late, or not at all.


The Framework

Practical decision-making under pressure operates through six habits. They are not sequential; they are concurrent disciplines that reinforce each other over time.

Habit 1: Frame Before You Solve

Julia Binder and Michael Watkins's research reveals a consistent failure pattern: leaders and teams devote too little effort to examining and defining problems before attempting to solve them. Jumping to solutions feels productive. It rarely is. Problem-framing is the practice of viewing a situation through multiple lenses -- adjusting angle, aperture, and focus -- before committing to a solution path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 4d ago First seen · 200 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 5501aa4b249e

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decision-making-under-pressure is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 3,554 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-06.

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