A decision-tracking skill that reviews the conversation for unanswered questions, assumptions, conflicts, and pending choices. It orders them by dependency and asks the user focused questions with context and trade-offs.

Use it to surface unresolved choices in a project, group related questions, and collect the user's answers before work continues.

It prevents important decisions from being missed or made on hidden assumptions. Decisions that affect later choices are raised first.

decide — Skill for Claude Code by nicograef/handbook

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 nicograef/handbook --skill decide

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicograef/handbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nico, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 agent, 4 hooks.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nicograef/handbook/decide/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nicograef/handbook/decide)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nicograef/handbook/decide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nicograef/handbook/decide/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nicograef/handbook/decide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nicograef/handbook/decide.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 281 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00052	$0.00281
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00112
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00056
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00028

Measured 18d ago against content hash 96fbc56ae0cf, 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 18d 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.

plugin/skills/decide/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Decide

Everything the user needs lives inside the AskUserQuestion call. The chat gets no issue list or summary before it. Start without asking for permission.

Sweep the whole session for unanswered questions, assumptions stated or silent, deferred decisions, and ambiguous or conflicting instructions. Include blockers only the user can lift.
Drop items the session or a stated constraint already settles. Items with one clear winner: take it and record it. Nothing left: say so in one line and stop.
Order by dependency: an item whose answer changes another's options goes first. Dependents wait for a later round.
Ask one AskUserQuestion call per round, as many questions as it takes. Each question names where it came from and why it matters now. A reader who skipped the session must understand it alone. Give every option its consequences at equal depth, a recommendation first.
Follow up on answers that open new questions, round by round, until none remain.
Record every decision where the work is tracked: plan file, task, or memory across sessions. Continue the work.

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.

18d ago Changed · -18 lines 96fbc56ae0cf
1mo ago Changed · -2 lines 2bb08ac2da22
1mo ago Changed · -1 lines · +3 tokens per session 6a51f520b256
1mo ago First seen · 37 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 0bc7ed6af5d8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

decide is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicograef/handbook (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 281 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-16.

Planning Productivity

decide next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
decidenicograef/handbook	Skill	2	2d ago	MIT	A	52	Claude Code
orbit-notionnexu-io/open-design	Skill	106k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	117	Claude Code, Codex
agentmailpaperclipai/paperclip	Skill	111k	yesterday	MIT	A	30	Claude Code, Codex
Cortexdanielmiessler/LifeOS	Skill	20k	yesterday	MIT	A	184	Claude Code
rowboat-spacesrowboatlabs/rowboat	Skill	18k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	60	Claude Code, Codex
feishuHmbown/CodeWhale	Skill	41k	6d ago	MIT	A	33	Claude Code, Codex
pinchtab-mcppinchtab/pinchtab	Skill	11k	10d ago	MIT	A	52	Claude Code, Codex