decision-logger

decision-logger is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS. It costs 39 tokens per session (730 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured record of why an important product decision was made. It captures the decision, date, context, alternatives, evidence, and people involved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after approving a product requirements document, changing scope, deciding whether to launch an experiment, reprioritising work, or reaching important stakeholder agreement.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from losing the reasoning behind changes, so later developers can understand past choices instead of guessing or reopening settled debates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it after approving a product requirements document, changing scope, deciding whether to launch an experiment, reprioritising work, or reaching important stakeholder agreement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hardiktiwari/pm-operating-os/decision-logger
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS --skill decision-logger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 730 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 $0.00039 $0.00730
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00292
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00073

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cbf5fdc5fe47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-logger 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 1mo 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/decision-logger/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Logger

Capture the reasoning behind key product decisions as structured, append-only traces. This builds the "event clock" — the record of why things became true, not just what is true now.

When to Use

  • After a PRD is approved or rejected
  • After a scope change or pivot
  • After a launch/kill/iterate decision on an experiment
  • After a prioritization shift (quarterly planning, reprioritization)
  • After a significant stakeholder alignment (exec review, cross-functional agreement)
  • When asked "log this decision", "record why we decided this", or "decision trace"

Process

1. Identify the Decision

Ask if not obvious from context:

  • What was decided? (1 sentence)
  • What triggered this decision? (signal, meeting, data, escalation)

2. Capture the Trace

Gather the following — from conversation context, user input, or by asking:

  • Decision: What was decided (1 sentence)
  • Date: When the decision was made
  • Context: What prompted this — the signal, conversation, or data point
  • Alternatives considered: What other options were on the table (at least 2)
  • Evidence: What data, insight, or customer signal drove the call
  • Stakeholders: Who was involved, who approved, who dissented
  • Expected outcome: What we expect to happen as a result
  • Risk / reversal cost: How hard is this to undo if wrong
  • Tags: strategic-pillar, metric, segment, experiment (for retrieval)

3. Write the Entry

Save to memory/decisions/YYYY-MM-DD_short-slug.md using this format:

# [Decision title]

**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD
**Type:** [PRD approval | Scope change | Launch/Kill | Prioritization | Alignment | Other]
**Tags:** [pillar, metric, segment]

## Decision
[1-2 sentences: what was decided]

## Context
[What prompted this — the trigger]

## Alternatives Considered
1. **[Option A]** — [brief description, why not chosen]
2. **[Option B]** — [brief description, why not chosen]

## Evidence
- [Data point, customer insight, or signal that drove the call]

## Stakeholders
- **Decision maker:** [who]
- **Consulted:** [who]
- **Informed:** [who]

## Expected Outcome
[What we expect to happen, and how we'll know]

## Risk / Reversal Cost
[How hard is this to undo — low/medium/high, and why]

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 1mo ago First seen · 90 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A cbf5fdc5fe47

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decision-logger is a skill published in the GitHub repository hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 730 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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