think-decision-journal

think-decision-journal is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills. It costs 109 tokens per session (1,348 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A record made when an important uncertain decision is taken, capturing the choice, reasons, expected result, confidence, and assumptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for launches, hiring, investments, vendor choices, bets, or strategy decisions that you plan to evaluate later.
Why use it?
It preserves what you actually believed before the outcome was known, making later review less vulnerable to hindsight bias.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the thinking-framework-skills plugin — 68 skills, 10 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it for launches, hiring, investments, vendor choices, bets, or strategy decisions that you plan to evaluate later.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-decision-journal
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 product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills --skill think-decision-journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thinking-framework-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 68 skills, 10 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,348 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 $0.00109 $0.01348
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00674
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00270
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00135

Measured 12d ago against content hash f15f5834d5dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

think-decision-journal 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 12d 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/think-decision-journal/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Journal

A decision journal records a decision at the moment it is made - the decision, the rationale, the predicted outcome, an explicit confidence level, and the assumptions it rests on - so it can be reviewed later against what actually happened. The load-bearing move is timing: the prediction is fixed in place before the outcome is known, while the reasoning and the felt confidence are still uncontaminated by the result. That contemporaneous record is the one reliable defense against hindsight bias ("I knew it all along"), it separates decision quality from outcome quality, and it supplies the recorded-prediction half of a calibration loop. The output is a structured decision journal entry, not prose, designed to be reopened and scored later.

When to Use

  • At the point of committing to a consequential, genuinely uncertain decision: a launch, hire, investment, vendor choice, bet, or strategic direction.
  • When you can still state an honest prediction, confidence level, and set of assumptions before the outcome is known.
  • When you intend to review the decision later against reality - it pairs with an after-action review (record now, review later).
  • When you want to build calibration over many decisions, not judge a single one.

When NOT to Use

  • To review a decision after the outcome is already known. That is an after-action review (think-after-action-review); writing a "journal entry" after the result back-fits the prediction, the exact distortion this method exists to prevent.
  • For trivial or fully reversible (two-way-door) decisions. The capture overhead is not worth it for a cheaply undone choice with no real uncertainty.
  • When no expectation can be honestly stated. If there is no genuine prediction, confidence, or assumption to record, the entry is theater.
  • To surface only the conditions that must hold for a choice to be right. That is think-what-would-have-to-be-true; the journal captures the whole decision plus a predicted outcome and confidence for calibration.
  • As a substitute for actually reviewing entries later. A journal nobody revisits delivers no calibration; if there is no intent to review, skip it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 67 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A f15f5834d5dc

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think-decision-journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,348 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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