making-decisions

making-decisions is a skill for Claude Code from synaptiai/synapti-marketplace. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,475 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A decision-making guide for turning research findings into explicit choices with documented trade-offs, meaning what each option gains and gives up.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review decision candidates, compare options using supporting evidence, record confidence levels, and identify risks.
Why use it?
It makes decisions traceable to evidence and exposes the risks and compromises behind each option.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the context-ledger plugin — 5 skills, 8 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps review decision candidates, compare options using supporting evidence, record confidence levels, and identify risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/making-decisions
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 synaptiai/synapti-marketplace --skill making-decisions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install context-ledger, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 8 commands, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,475 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 $0.00025 $0.01475
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00147

Measured 10d ago against content hash f87999e537a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

making-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 10d 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.

plugins/context-ledger/skills/making-decisions/SKILL.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Ledger

This skill guides the creation of explicit decisions with full trade-off documentation.

Prerequisites

  • Synthesis complete (/ledger-synthesize)
  • 03-synthesis/CROSS-SYNTHESIS.md exists with decision candidates
  • Per-pillar syntheses in 03-synthesis/SYN-*.md

Workflow

Use TodoWrite to track these mandatory steps:

Step 1: Load Decision Candidates

Read 03-synthesis/CROSS-SYNTHESIS.md to extract:

  • Decision topics needing resolution
  • Supporting evidence from each pillar
  • Identified options

Step 2: Gather Evidence per Decision

For each decision candidate:

  • Collect all relevant EV-* IDs
  • Summarize what evidence supports each option
  • Note confidence levels
decision_candidate:
  topic: target-segment-priority
  options:
    - name: SMB-first
      evidence:
        - EV-users-smb-pain-points (0.80)
        - EV-economics-smb-unit-economics (0.75)
    - name: Enterprise-first
      evidence:
        - EV-market-enterprise-tam (0.85)
        - EV-competitors-enterprise-gap (0.70)

Step 3: Present Trade-offs

For each decision, present:

  • Options with evidence support
  • What you win with each option
  • What you lose with each option
  • Risks created by each option

Use AskUserQuestion to get user's decision.

Step 4: Create Decision Entry

Write entry to 04-decisions/DECISIONS.yaml using schema from references/decision-ledger-schema.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 10d ago First seen · 232 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A f87999e537a8

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making-decisions is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/synapti-marketplace (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,475 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.