synthesize-decisions

synthesize-decisions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ProsusAI/prism. It costs 97 tokens per session (2,437 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow that turns documented design decisions from a codebase into practical instructions for developers. It is meant to run after the design-analysis step has produced an analysis/design.md file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing design findings, avoiding duplicate guidance, and creating practice skills from decisions, unusual behaviors, and architectural patterns.
Why use it?
It preserves important architectural choices and trade-offs as guidance that appears before developers make conflicting changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Reviewing design findings, avoiding duplicate guidance, and creating practice skills from decisions, unusual behaviors, and architectural patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/prosusai/prism/synthesize-decisions
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ProsusAI/prism --skill synthesize-decisions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ProsusAI/prism

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,437 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 $0.00097 $0.02437
Opus 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00975
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00487
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00244

Measured 2mo ago against content hash a1c2c34f5842, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synthesize-decisions 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 2mo 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/synthesize-decisions/SKILL.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to use this skill

Promote design decisions from _analysis/design.md into normative practices — guidance that loads before a developer makes the wrong choice, not after they hit a bug. Complements /synthesize (Claude Code) or @synthesize (Cursor) (which promotes failure-mode practices from incident history and assembled cross-subsystem patterns).

Run this after /mine-design (Claude Code) or @mine-design (Cursor). Run /synthesize (Claude Code) or @synthesize (Cursor) separately for incident-history practices.


Step 1 — Read inputs

Read _analysis/design.md fully. If it doesn't exist, stop and tell the developer:

"_analysis/design.md not found. Run /mine-design (Claude Code) or @mine-design (Cursor) first."

Read all sections: decisions, trade-offs, non-obvious behaviors, structural anti-patterns, and the ## Architectural patterns section. Record every finding.

Also list all directories under _analysis/extracted_skills_codebase/. Read the description field from each existing SKILL.md. Any decision already covered by an existing practice is skipped — do not duplicate.


Step 2 — Apply 7 concern lenses

Re-read every design.md finding through each of these 7 lenses. A finding can be relevant to more than one lens. Collect findings into concern clusters — you are grouping by class of problem, not by subsystem.

The probes 7–9 findings from mine-design are especially relevant here (explicit non-defaults, framework departures, deliberate failure prevention) — start with those.


Concern 1: Shared state and isolation

Where state that should be scoped to one request, coroutine, or session accidentally escapes into a wider scope.

Look for: process-global state set per-request, shared mutable objects accessed concurrently, missing per-coroutine isolation in async frameworks, global registries modified at runtime.

Framing question: What breaks under concurrent load that single-threaded testing never reveals?

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 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. 2mo ago First seen · 242 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A a1c2c34f5842

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synthesize-decisions is a skill published in the GitHub repository ProsusAI/prism (20 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 2,437 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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