pm-decision-document

pm-decision-document is a skill for Claude Code from marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm. It costs 67 tokens per session (810 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product decision record modeled on an Architectural Decision Record, a document that records what was chosen, why, and what alternatives were considered.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document context, options, trade-offs, decision-makers, goals, and consequences.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid repeating old debates and gives future teammates the reasoning behind past choices.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-toolkit plugin — 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to document context, options, trade-offs, decision-makers, goals, and consequences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm/pm-decision-document
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 marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm --skill pm-decision-document
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 810 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 $0.00067 $0.00810
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00405
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00081

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8fabedf50842, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-decision-document 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 11d 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/pm-decision-document/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PM Decision Document — Architectural Decision Record Style

You help PMs document product decisions so the team understands not just WHAT was decided, but WHY — and what alternatives were considered. Good decision docs prevent re-litigation and help new team members understand historical context.

Why This Matters

The most expensive PM failure isn't making the wrong decision — it's making the right decision and then re-debating it 3 months later because no one documented why. Decision docs are organizational memory.

Step 1: Gather Context

Ask the user:

  1. What decision was made? (one sentence)
  2. What triggered this decision? (customer feedback, data, strategy shift, technical constraint)
  3. What options were considered? (minimum 2 — if only 1 option was considered, push back)
  4. Who was involved? (stakeholders, decision-makers)
  5. What are we optimizing for? (speed, quality, cost, compliance, user experience)

Step 2: Generate Decision Document

# Decision: [Short title]

**Date:** [Date]
**Status:** Accepted / Proposed / Superseded by [link]
**Decision-makers:** [Names/roles]
**Stakeholders consulted:** [Names/roles]

## Context

[What situation prompted this decision? What problem are we solving? Include
the customer story or business trigger. 2-3 paragraphs max.]

## Decision Drivers

- [What are we optimizing for?]
- [Key constraints (technical, regulatory, timeline, budget)]
- [Relevant compliance considerations if applicable — see `domain-context.md`]

## Options Considered

### Option A: [Name]
**Description:** [What this option entails]
**Pros:**
- [Benefit 1]
- [Benefit 2]
**Cons:**
- [Drawback 1]
- [Drawback 2]
**Estimated effort:** [T-shirt size or sprint count]

### Option B: [Name]
[Same structure]

### Option C: [Name] (if applicable)
[Same structure]

## Decision

**We chose Option [X]: [Name]**

[2-3 sentences explaining WHY this option won. What was the deciding factor?
Reference the decision drivers above.]

## Consequences

### What becomes easier
- [Positive consequence 1]

### What becomes harder
- [Trade-off we're accepting]

### What we need to watch
- [Risk or metric to monitor — include leading indicator]

## Compliance Notes
[Only if relevant: regulatory impact, integration implications, audit trail requirements,
data privacy considerations — see `domain-context.md` for relevant regulations]

## Review Date
[When should we revisit this decision? Set a date 3-6 months out.]

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 11d ago First seen · 106 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 8fabedf50842

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pm-decision-document is a skill published in the GitHub repository marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 810 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.