decision-graph

decision-graph is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaearon/woodshed. It costs 42 tokens per session (3,446 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of decision-graph, MIT.

A guide and command-line workflow for building a decision graph: a map of design choices and how they changed over time. It uses a directed acyclic graph, where links move forward without forming loops, and grounds the graph in repository evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate architecture history, follow features through introduction and removal, and document design evolution.
Why use it?
It helps explain why a codebase looks the way it does by tracing decisions through commits, code, comments, and tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate architecture history, follow features through introduction and removal, and document design evolution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gaearon/woodshed/original
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 gaearon/woodshed --skill original
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaearon/woodshed

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,446 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 86% 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 $0.00042 $0.03446
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01723
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00689
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00345

Measured 10d ago against content hash c7a5dbb3c482, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-graph 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

86% identical to decision-graph — 16 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.

example/skills/decision-graph/original/SKILL.md · 369 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 369 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Graph Construction

You are building a deciduous decision graph - a DAG that captures the evolution of design decisions in a codebase.

Use the deciduous CLI (at ~/.cargo/bin/deciduous) to build the graph. Run deciduous commands in the current directory (not inside the source repo).

For git commands to explore commit history, use git -C <repo-path> to target the source repo.

CRITICAL: Only use information from the repository itself (commits, code, comments, tests). Do not use your prior knowledge about the project. Everything must be grounded in what you find in the repo.

Commit Exploration

Use a layered strategy to find all relevant commits:

Layer 1: See all commits. Start with the full list when building narratives.

git log --oneline --after="..." --before="..." -- path/

Layer 2: Keyword expansion. Once you have narratives, search for spelling variations and related terms you might have missed (e.g., "cache" → "caching", "cached", "LRU", "invalidate"). For each key identifier in your narratives, trace its full lifecycle:

  • Introduction
  • Changes and modifications
  • Renames
  • Deprecation or removal
  • Replacement by other mechanisms
  • Becoming stable/public API

If there's a feature flag controlling the feature, search for commits mentioning that flag.

Layer 3: Follow authors. If a narrative has a key author, check their commits ±1 month from known commits. They often work on related things.

DO NOT:

  • git log ... | head -100NO. You will miss commits in the middle.
  • git log ... | tail -200NO. Same problem.
  • Start with keyword filtering — NO. You'll miss things with unexpected names.

DO:

  • See all commits first, filter mentally while building narratives
  • Include "remove", "delete", "disable", "deprecate" in keyword searches — removals explain transitions
  • Check the commit count first (| wc -l), but then see them all
  • Read full commit messages for any commit whose title mentions an identifier or concept relevant to your narrative — you need precise understanding of what happened to each one you care about

Read the full file on GitHub · 369 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. 10d ago First seen · 369 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A c7a5dbb3c482

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decision-graph is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaearon/woodshed (70 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 3,446 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to decision-graph, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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