deciding-who-decides

deciding-who-decides is a skill for Claude Code from FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering. It costs 80 tokens per session (2,188 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for deciding whether an agent or a human should have authority over a particular change, based on how reversible it is, the available evidence, and its consequences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assign preparation, recommendation, verification, approval, application, reopening, and closing rights, with clear escalation conditions.
Why use it?
It prevents an agent’s technical ability or repository access from being mistaken for permission to make an important decision.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the nuclear-grade plugin — 29 skills, 28 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to assign preparation, recommendation, verification, approval, application, reopening, and closing rights, with clear escalation conditions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flyfission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering/deciding-who-decides
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 FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering --skill deciding-who-decides
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nuclear-grade, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 28 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,188 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 $0.00080 $0.02188
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01094
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00438
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00219

Measured 9d ago against content hash be925f626fc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deciding-who-decides 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 9d 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/deciding-who-decides/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deciding Who Decides

Overview

Authority should sit where the policy, evidence, competence, and effective ability to intervene support it, not automatically at the top or with the actor holding the tool. This skill creates an evidence-conditioned authority record for one bounded decision episode. It separates prepare, recommend, verify, validate, verdict, accept, apply, reopen, and close rights; links evidentiary rights to exact Evidence IDs; names the authority that may assemble each right's basis; preserves unknown and disputed states; and names transfer or blocking triggers. It does not infer authorization from technical capability, repository activity, fluency, or nominal human presence.

Decision contract

  • Claim checked: each decision right is assigned under an explicit local policy to a named actor; each right's declared basis and basis authority are visible; required Evidence IDs and their custody profile are visible; unresolved evidence cannot silently clear agent application; and transfer/reopen/close triggers are concrete.
  • Artifact observed: the bounded action; verification.md Evidence IDs, coded source states, intended-use/V&V status, and coupling profile; declared policy identity, authority, custody, digest, and validity; effective intervention capability; and any existing human gate -> decision-authority.md plus a declaration-relative structural result.
  • Decision affected: block -- does the declared record structurally permit agent application, require authority transfer or separate/dual control, or remain blocked/prohibited/indeterminate?
  • Failure class: misplaced-authority or unsupported-basis (capability treated as authorization, unresolved/self-check evidence clearing agent action, prohibited role overlap, stale basis, or skipped gate).
  • Next action: record raw observations, derive the declaration-relative result, and transfer or block before side effects when the basis or authority is unresolved.

When to Use

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 9d ago First seen · 110 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A be925f626fc4

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deciding-who-decides is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,188 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.