decide

decide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 86 tokens per session (585 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided decision process for situations where the user must choose between several valid options. It frames one choice at a time, recommends a default, and applies the selected option.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding how to resolve a code or design fork, especially when the chosen option should be implemented immediately. It helps compare the resulting code or structure before acting.
Why use it?
It turns an open-ended discussion into a clear decision without making the choice for the user or stopping after asking a question. Existing code and evidence are checked first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: argument-hint in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin plugin — 29 skills, 14 plugins shipped together

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/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/decide
Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill decide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 14 plugins.

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/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/decide.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/decide)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/decide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/decide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 585 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 5.1 $0.00086 $0.00585
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00293
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00059

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1039e185479d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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/decide/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decide

The user owns the pick, you own the framing and the execution. Two failure modes sit on either side: deciding for them, which is pov, and asking without ever acting, which is askme. This skill closes the seam between them, and nothing shipped does the whole loop, because askme, clarify, and brainstorm all terminate in an artifact while fix acts without asking.

Ground the fork before framing it

Resolve from evidence first with grep, glob, read, or lsp. A fork the code already answers is not a fork: read it, say what it answers, and do not ask. Never ask what a search settles.

Frame it

Question contract: skills/askme/SKILL.md:64-127. One single-select per axis, two to four options, (Recommended) first with the consequence in its description. Never multiSelect for override semantics, an antipattern spelled out at skills/askme/SKILL.md:68-101.

Options carry consequences, not labels

Each option names what the code looks like afterwards. Where two options differ visibly, put the difference in preview as a diff or a tree.

Take the pick and act in the same turn

A pick applied in one edit gets the edit. A pick needing a verify, keep, or revert loop goes to fix, with the pick restated as its goal. A pick that removes an observable surface or cannot be reverted from git gets one concern stated, then a yes.

Chained forks

When applying one pick opens the next, ask it immediately with the settled decision restated in one line. Never bank a queue of questions to fire at the end.

When the user picks what you would not

Execute the pick, state the concern once, never re-litigate.

Close

One line naming the fork, the pick, and what changed.

Boundaries

  • A verdict of your own goes to pov.
  • An exploration ending in a document goes to askme.
  • A whole-session director-executor posture goes to duet.
  • A wide design tree in batched rounds goes to batch-ask-me.
  • Ambiguity inside a stated request rather than a fork goes to clarify.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago First seen · 46 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 1039e185479d

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decide is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 585 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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