decision-capture

A decision record that saves what was chosen, the alternatives considered, and the reasoning behind it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a choice has been made, options were compared, or the reasoning needs to be remembered later.
Why use it?
It prevents important context from being lost after a conversation. Future readers can understand not only the decision, but also its trade-offs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/teejayen/arc/decision-capture
Any agent
npx skills add teejayen/arc --skill decision-capture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/teejayen/arc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 414 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 $0.00037 $0.00414
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00207
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00041

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2963cecd85f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-capture 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/decision-capture/SKILL.md · 84 lines

What it actually says

Decision Capture

Extract and document a decision from the conversation.

When to Use

  • A clear decision has been made during conversation
  • User wants to record reasoning for future reference
  • Trade-offs were weighed and a choice was made

Execution Steps

Step 1: Get date

date "+%Y-%m-%d"

Step 2: Identify the decision

If not clear from context, ask which decision to capture.

Step 3: Create decision file

Location: decisions/YYYY-MM-DD-decision-topic.md

---
title: "Decision: [Clear title]"
created: YYYY-MM-DD
tags: [decision, relevant-area]
status: active
---

# Decision: [Clear title]

**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD
**Area:** [Which life domain - career, projects, family, etc.]

## The Decision
[Clear statement of what was decided]

## Context
[What situation led to needing this decision]

## Options Considered

### Option 1: [Name]
[Description]
- Pros: ...
- Cons: ...

### Option 2: [Name]
[Description]
- Pros: ...
- Cons: ...

## Why This Option
[The reasoning and trade-offs that led to this choice]

## Implications
- What this means for...
- Changes to...

## Success Criteria
[How we'll know it was the right call]

## Review
[When to revisit - "in 3 months", "after X happens", or "no review needed"]

## Related
- [[session-file-if-applicable]]
- [[related-notes]]

Step 4: Confirm

  • Confirm the file location
  • Remind that /session will push to GitHub
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. 3d ago First seen · 84 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 2963cecd85f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

decision-capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository teejayen/arc (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 414 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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