decision-memo

decision-memo is a skill for Claude Code from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (873 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured memo for presenting a recommendation and asking a specific person to choose between defined options. It puts the proposed decision first, followed by context and trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write decision memos, recommendation memos, and one- or six-page documents for leadership decisions.
Why use it?
It prevents a memo from becoming a long discussion with no clear request. Readers can quickly understand what must be decided, why, and by when.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-business plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write decision memos, recommendation memos, and one- or six-page documents for leadership decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/decision-memo
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,449 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill decision-memo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-business, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 873 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 $0.00087 $0.00873
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00349
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00087

Measured 2d ago against content hash 798d79065c47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-memo 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 2d 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.

plugins/pm-business/skills/decision-memo/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Memo Skill

A decision memo exists to get a decision made — fast, on the record, by the right person. The failure mode is a memo that reads like a discussion: lots of context, no recommendation, no ask. This skill front-loads the recommendation and the decision being requested, then supports it — so the reader can say yes, no, or "here's my concern" in five minutes.

Not quite this? Use async-decision-memo when the decision will be made asynchronously, with a read window, comments and a deadline.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

  • The decision — the specific choice to be made (phrase it as a question with a yes/no or A/B/C answer).
  • The recommendation — your actual recommendation (a memo without one is a status update).
  • The options considered and their trade-offs.
  • The decider & deadline — who owns this call and by when.

Output Format

Decision Memo: [the decision]

To: [decider] · From: [you] · Date: [date] · Decision needed by: [date]

1. Recommendation (TL;DR) — the recommendation in 2–3 sentences, first. What you want them to approve, and the one-line why.

2. The decision — the question being decided, framed so the answer is a clear choice.

3. Context — the minimum background needed to evaluate it (link the rest). Why this is on the table now.

4. Options & trade-offs — a table; be fair to the options you're not recommending (a stacked deck reads as one):

Option Pros Cons Cost / effort

5. Why this recommendation — the reasoning, and what you'd have to believe for it to be wrong (the assumptions it rests on).

6. Risks & mitigations — the real downsides and how you'd handle them. A reversible decision deserves less agonising than an irreversible one — say which it is.

7. The ask — exactly what you need from the reader: approve / pick an option / give input — by the deadline.

Quality Checks

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 2d ago First seen · 73 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 798d79065c47

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decision-memo is a skill published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,449 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 873 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 2026-10-12.

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