decision-diary

decision-diary is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 40 tokens per session (715 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of decision-diary, Apache-2.0.

A decision diary records which option was chosen, which alternatives were considered, and why the winner was selected. It is a local written record of the reasoning behind a decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to append a decision entry containing the winning option, all considered options, and the reasons each option won or lost.
Why use it?
It preserves the reasoning that would otherwise be lost, making later reviews less dependent on personal memory.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-knowledge plugin — 23 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to append a decision entry containing the winning option, all considered options, and the reasons each option won or lost.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/decision-diary
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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill decision-diary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 715 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00040 $0.00715
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00286
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00072

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 16b6b5eb9ea5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-diary 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to decision-diary — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/odin-knowledge/skills/decision-diary/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision diary

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User wants to record why one world won over the others.
Authority Reversible local: writes only one decision-diary entry at the agreed diary location; rollback is version control. No remote mutation.
Side effect A decision-diary entry documenting why one world won.
Done The decision and its rationale are recorded in the decision diary.

Inputs

Winning decision: the world or option that won. Required. Considered worlds: every option that was on the field, including the winner. Required. Rationale: why the winning world won and why each rejected world lost. Required. Decision-diary location: the local file path where the entry is appended. Required; if no location is established, the user must supply it. Optional inputs: date, surrounding context, human opinions, agent doubts, and obvious assumptions that shaped the choice.

Procedure

  1. Confirm the winning decision and the full set of considered worlds from the user. Do not infer a winner or invent options that were not on the field. Done when: the winning decision and all considered worlds are confirmed from the user.
  2. Capture why the winning world won, using the user's terms. Done when: the winning rationale is recorded in the user's own terms.
  3. Capture, for each rejected world, the reason it lost. Done when: every rejected world has a loss reason recorded.
  4. Record any human opinions, agent doubts, and obvious assumptions the user names as load-bearing for the choice. Omit this section when the user names none; do not fabricate doubts or assumptions. Done when: named opinions, doubts, and assumptions are recorded, or the section is omitted because the user named none.
  5. Compose one diary entry containing the winning decision, the considered worlds, the winning rationale, the per-rejected-world loss reasons, and any named opinions, doubts, or assumptions. Done when: the entry contains all five elements.
  6. Append the entry to the decision-diary file at the agreed location. Create the file only if the user confirms it does not yet exist and names this path as its home. Done when: the entry is appended to the diary file at the agreed location.
  7. Read the entry back from the diary and confirm it is persisted and readable. Done when: the entry is read back and confirmed persisted and readable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 1mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 16b6b5eb9ea5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

decision-diary is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (39 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 715 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to decision-diary, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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