making-a-decision

making-a-decision is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from redhuntlabs/wizard. It costs 21 tokens per session (935 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making workflow for choosing between two or more options. It records the criteria, scores the options, names a recommendation and runner-up, and explains what could change the choice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for technology choices, project decisions, vendor comparisons, and any choice that deserves more than a quick judgment.
Why use it?
It makes the reasoning behind a choice explicit and prevents comparisons from continuing without a documented conclusion.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the wizard plugin — 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook 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/redhuntlabs/wizard/making-a-decision
Any agent
npx skills add redhuntlabs/wizard --skill making-a-decision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhuntlabs/wizard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install wizard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 935 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 $0.00021 $0.00935
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00467
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00093

Measured 5d ago against content hash a8f7167ece12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

making-a-decision 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 5d 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.

spells/thinking/making-a-decision/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Making a Decision

What this does

Produces a written decision with the criteria, the options scored, the recommendation, the runner-up, and the reason the runner-up lost. Documents what would change your mind.

When to use

  • Picking between two or more concrete options
  • Documenting a decision so future-you (or your team) remembers why
  • Closing out a comparison that's been dragging
  • Any decision worth more than 30 minutes of consideration

What you bring (Inputs)

  • The decision (one sentence: "should I X or Y")
  • The criteria that matter (3-5)
  • The options under consideration (2+)

What you get (Output)

A written decision document: criteria + scoring + recommendation + alternative + reversal trigger.

How it works (Steps)

This is a workflow.

Stages

Stage 1: State the decision

In one sentence. ("Should I X or Y.")

Stage 2: List the criteria

3-5 criteria, weighted (numeric or simple high/med/low).

Stage 3: Score each option

Score every option against every criterion. A 3-option, 4-criterion grid is enough.

Stage 4: Pick the winner

Based on the score, name the winner.

Stage 5: Name the strongest runner-up

Explicitly name the second-best option.

Stage 6: Reject the runner-up explicitly

State: "I considered [runner-up] and rejected it because [reason]." The reason must be specific (cite criteria, not "it wasn't as good").

Stage 7: State the reversal trigger

"I would change my mind if [concrete event or metric]." The trigger must be observable.

Checkpoints

  • After Stage 2: at least 3 criteria
  • After Stage 3: every option scored against every criterion
  • After Stage 6: rejection reason cites specific criteria
  • After Stage 7: reversal trigger is concrete (metric, date, or observation)

Loop-back conditions

  • If Stage 3 reveals a missing criterion, return to Stage 2 and add it
  • If Stage 6 cannot produce a real reason, the decision is not ready — the winner and runner-up may be too close; add a tiebreaker criterion in Stage 2

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 5d ago First seen · 118 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A a8f7167ece12

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making-a-decision is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhuntlabs/wizard (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 935 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.