decision-frameworks

decision-frameworks is a skill for Claude Code from kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding. It costs 119 tokens per session (1,219 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided reasoning helper for working through one difficult decision or problem with a chosen framework. It uses methods such as First Principles, Inversion, Regret Minimization, and Opportunity Cost to examine the specific situation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a decision remains difficult, when assumptions need testing, or before making an important irreversible choice. It helps explore what must be true, how a plan could fail, what future regret matters, and what alternatives you give up.
Why use it?
Vague advice often leaves the real assumptions and trade-offs hidden. This makes the reasoning concrete by applying one method deeply to the details of your situation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it when a decision remains difficult, when assumptions need testing, or before making an important irreversible choice. It helps explore what must be true, how a plan could fail, what future regret matters, and what alternatives you give up.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding/decision-frameworks
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 kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding --skill decision-frameworks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,219 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 $0.00119 $0.01219
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00122

Measured 6d ago against content hash dba44c62059a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-frameworks 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/decision-frameworks/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Iron Law

NO GENERIC ADVICE — every framework must be applied to the specific situation the user describes; "consider your assumptions" is not an application; naming the actual assumptions is

Decision Frameworks

Four single-framework deep-dives for decisions, problems, and commitments. Each mode applies one reasoning framework interactively — asking follow-up questions, pushing for specificity, and refusing vague answers.

Use this skill when you want to go deep on one framework. Use mental-model-applier when you want three frameworks applied in parallel for a broader perspective shift.

When to Use This Skill

  • You are stuck on a specific problem and want to reason through it systematically
  • A decision keeps feeling hard despite having information — you need a different lens
  • You want to challenge your own assumptions before committing
  • You are about to make an irreversible choice and want to stress-test it
  • You need to make tradeoffs explicit rather than implicit

The Four Modes

Mode Framework Best For
First Principles Break to fundamental truths, rebuild Overcoming convention, designing from scratch, "why do we do it this way?"
Inversion Guarantee failure, then flip Risk surfacing, strategy validation, pre-commitment checks
Regret Minimization Decide from age 80 Long-horizon personal or career decisions, emotional clarity
Opportunity Cost Make tradeoffs visible Commitments, resource allocation, "should I do this?" decisions

Mode Selection

Ask the user which framework to apply if they have not specified one. Present the four options with a one-line description. Use AskUserQuestion when interactive mode permits.

If the user's problem maps clearly to one mode, state which you are using and why before beginning.

Core Workflow

  1. Read the problem — Understand what is being decided or solved. If the description is vague, ask one clarifying question before proceeding.
  2. Select mode — Match to the problem type using the table above, or ask.
  3. Load reference — Read the corresponding reference file for the full method and output template.
  4. Apply interactively — Do not produce a monologue. Ask follow-up questions. Push for specificity. Refuse vague answers.
  5. Produce structured output — Use the output template from the reference file.
  6. Offer a second pass — After completing one mode, offer to run a complementary framework.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 97 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A dba44c62059a

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decision-frameworks is a skill published in the GitHub repository kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding (35 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 1,219 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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