decide

decide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from me2resh/apexyard. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,330 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 CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/me2resh/apexyard/decide
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, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for decide

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/me2resh/apexyard/decide.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/me2resh/apexyard/decide)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/me2resh/apexyard/decide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/me2resh/apexyard/decide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,330 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00020 $0.01330
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00133

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3fbd2be52adf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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.

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 · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/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.

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

Resolve the AgDR template via the portfolio helper so adopter overrides win when present:

source "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.claude/hooks/_lib-read-config.sh"
source "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.claude/hooks/_lib-portfolio-paths.sh"
template=$(portfolio_resolve_template agdr.md)   # → custom-templates/agdr.md if present, else templates/agdr.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 4d 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 (498 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,330 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

obra/superpowers · 37 tokens

auto-perf-optimize

Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations. Use when asked to launch Code OSS, automate a VS Code scenario, run the Chat memory smoke runner, capture renderer heap snapshots, take workflow screenshots, compare run summaries, or drive a repeatable scenario before heap-snapshot analysis.

microsoft/vscode · 62 tokens

chat-perf

Run chat perf benchmarks and memory leak checks against the local dev build or any published VS Code version. Use when investigating chat rendering regressions, validating perf-sensitive changes to chat UI, or checking for memory leaks in the chat response pipeline.

microsoft/vscode · 51 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens