decide

decide is a skill for Claude Code from me2resh/apexyard. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,791 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured process for making technical decisions and recording them in an Agent Decision Record (AgDR), an auditable document explaining what was chosen and why.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate technical options, decide on architecture or technology changes, and record decisions involving integrations, data models, authentication, encryption, secrets, or personal data.
Why use it?
It helps teams compare options, account for constraints, involve the right reviewers, and preserve the reasoning behind important engineering choices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to evaluate technical options, decide on architecture or technology changes, and record decisions involving integrations, data models, authentication, encryption, secrets, or personal data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/me2resh/apexyard/decide
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 me2resh/apexyard --skill decide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/me2resh/apexyard

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,791 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 131
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00020 $0.01791
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00716
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00179

Measured 4d ago against content hash 988dbbbdc366, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decide 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (tests/test_agdr_allocation_guard.sh, tests/test_agdr_unique_ids.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/decide/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing: read docs/skills/shared/writing-rule.md before you write a durable artifact.

/decide — Technical Decision Gate

Forces structured decision-making and creates an auditable Agent Decision Record (AgDR).

Activated role

When /decide runs, activate the Tech Lead role — they own technical decisions within their domain. For decisions that cross the architecture-review threshold (new service, new tech stack, new external integration, major data model change), escalate to the Head of Engineering before creating the AgDR.

If the decision touches auth / crypto / secrets / PII, also involve the Security Auditor for sign-off on the security implications before finalising the choice.

See .claude/rules/role-triggers.md for the full activation protocol.

Process

1. Parse the Decision Topic

Extract the decision topic from $ARGUMENTS. If unclear, ask:

What technical decision do you need to make?

2. Gather Context

Identify decision-relevant context only:

  • What problem are we solving?
  • What constraints exist?
  • What's already in the codebase?

3. List Options

Present 2–4 options in a table:

| Option | Pros | Cons |
|--------|------|------|
| Option A | … | … |
| Option B | … | … |

4. Make the Decision

State the chosen option with justification.

5. Generate the AgDR

Create file at {project-root}/docs/agdr/AgDR-{NNNN}-{slug}.md.

After writing the file, source .claude/hooks/_lib-review-markers.sh from the ops fork and run review_validate_body agdr <path-to-new-AgDR>. Repair any missing title or required section before reporting the decision. This local check does not approve the decision or write a review marker.

Important: AgDRs live in the current project's repository, not centralised. Each project has its own docs/agdr/ folder and its own ID sequence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 4d ago Changed · -2 lines 988dbbbdc366
  2. 11d ago Changed · +2 lines 2300830af4f4
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +28 lines 8b39e6cf8d77
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 155 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 3fbd2be52adf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

decide is a skill published in the GitHub repository me2resh/apexyard (533 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,791 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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