design-decision-rights-framework

design-decision-rights-framework is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework that assigns final decision authority for specific types of decisions to named roles or groups. It separates the person who decides from people who provide input.

In plain words
What is it for?
Mapping strategic and operational decisions to the role or body responsible for making the final call.
Why use it?
When authority is unclear, decisions become slow, contested, and repeatedly reopened.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the grimoire-business plugin — 156 skills shipped together

Good fit Mapping strategic and operational decisions to the role or body responsible for making the final call.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/design-decision-rights-framework
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill design-decision-rights-framework
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grimoire-business, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 156 skills.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,380 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 $0.00070 $0.01380
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00552
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00138

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d8a7382628cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-decision-rights-framework 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/business/operations/skills/design-decision-rights-framework/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Decision Rights Framework

Explicitly map decision types to the specific role or body with final decision authority, distinct from who merely provides input — rather than leaving decision authority ambiguous and re-litigated each time a similar decision arises.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: Bain & Company's RAPID framework (Recommend, Agree, Perform, Input, Decide), introduced in Rogers & Blenko's "Who Has the D?" (Harvard Business Review, 2006), is one of the most widely adopted decision-rights frameworks in corporate strategy and organizational design practice, used to clarify decision authority across large, complex organizations where ambiguous authority repeatedly slows decision-making. Impact: Bain's own research documents that decision effectiveness (the speed and quality of organizational decision-making) correlates more strongly with clarity of decision rights than with almost any other organizational design factor studied — organizations with clear decision rights make faster, more consistently executed decisions than organizations with equivalent talent but ambiguous decision authority. Why best: Ambiguous decision authority means every decision of a given type gets re-litigated from scratch — who actually has the final call is negotiated anew each time rather than settled once, producing slower decisions and, worse, decisions that get revisited after the fact because the people who felt entitled to a say weren't clearly excluded from final authority in advance.

Sources: Rogers & Blenko, "Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance," Harvard Business Review (2006); Bain & Company, RAPID decision-making framework

Steps

Step 1: Identify the recurring decision types causing friction

Identify the specific categories of decisions that recur and currently experience friction, delay, or repeated re-litigation — pricing decisions, hiring above a certain level, product feature prioritization — rather than attempting to map decision rights for every conceivable one-off decision the organization might face.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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 · 68 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A d8a7382628cf

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design-decision-rights-framework is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,380 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.