decision-journal

decision-journal is a skill for Codex from itseffi/agentic-os. It costs 24 tokens per session (341 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured record of an important decision, including the expected result, its likelihood, and conditions for stopping or changing course.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document major technical, product, business, or personal decisions and review their outcomes.
Why use it?
It makes your reasoning visible and gives you a way to compare expectations with what happens later.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to document major technical, product, business, or personal decisions and review their outcomes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/itseffi/agentic-os/decision-journal
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 itseffi/agentic-os --skill decision-journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itseffi/agentic-os

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 341 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 $0.00024 $0.00341
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00136
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00034

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a9b51134d1d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-journal 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.

.agents/skills/decision-journal/SKILL.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

Decision Journal

Create structured records of decisions for learning and accountability.

When to Use

When making important decisions that you want to track and learn from.

The Framework

Record these components for each decision:

1. Expected Outcomes

List 3-5 possible outcomes:

  • Best case scenario
  • Most likely scenario
  • Worst case scenario
  • Consider short and long-term

2. Probability Estimates

For each outcome, estimate likelihood (must sum to 100%):

  • Outcome A: X%
  • Outcome B: Y%
  • etc.

3. Key Assumptions

List 3-5 critical assumptions:

  • What beliefs underlie this decision?
  • Which, if wrong, would change the outcome?

4. Base Rates

Research relevant statistics:

  • What's typical for this type of decision?
  • Historical data or industry averages?
  • What do similar situations suggest?

5. Quit Conditions

Define 2-3 triggers to abandon or change course:

  • Clear, measurable indicators
  • Specific thresholds
  • Timeline checkpoints

6. Actual Results

Leave blank initially, fill in later:

  • What actually happened?
  • Which outcome occurred?
  • Were assumptions valid?

Review Process

After outcomes are known:

  1. Compare predictions to reality
  2. Identify where thinking was wrong
  3. Extract lessons for future decisions

When Not to Use

Do not use this skill when the request is unrelated, low-stakes, or better handled by a simpler direct response.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 64 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A a9b51134d1d2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

decision-journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository itseffi/agentic-os (117 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 341 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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