decision-journal

decision-journal is a skill for Claude Code from winstonkoh87/Athena-Public. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A record of important decisions before and after their outcomes are known. It captures alternatives, confidence, assumptions, expected results, and later reviews what happened.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a decision, run a post-mortem after success or failure, classify what went wrong, and track how well your predictions match reality.
Why use it?
It makes reasoning easier to examine instead of judging decisions only by their results. It also helps identify recurring mistakes and improve confidence estimates over time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to prepare a decision, run a post-mortem after success or failure, classify what went wrong, and track how well your predictions match reality.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/winstonkoh87/athena-public/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 winstonkoh87/Athena-Public --skill decision-journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/winstonkoh87/Athena-Public

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,009 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00035 $0.01009
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00404
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00101

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6d302a334b62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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.

examples/skills/decision/decision-journal/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Engine (Journal + Post-Mortem)

Absorbs: post-mortem-engine

Complete decision lifecycle in one skill: record decisions BEFORE outcomes are known, review them AFTER, classify failures objectively, and track calibration over time.

Triggers

"I've decided to", "logging a decision", "was that a good decision", "calibration", "what went wrong", "post mortem", "failure analysis", "AAR", "I screwed up"


Part 1: Pre-Decision Entry (BEFORE outcome)

## Decision Entry: [YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM]

### The Decision
[What am I deciding to do?]

### The Alternatives
1. [Alternative A and why I rejected it]
2. [Alternative B and why I rejected it]

### My Confidence
[X]% confident this is the right call.

### Key Assumptions (numbered)
1. [Assumption 1]
2. [Assumption 2]

### What Would Change My Mind
[Specific observable evidence that would make me reverse]

### Expected Outcome
- Best case: [description] (probability: X%)
- Most likely: [description] (probability: X%)
- Worst case: [description] (probability: X%)

### Decision Class
- [ ] Reversible (Type 2 — decide fast, adjust later)
- [ ] Irreversible (Type 1 — decide carefully, no undo)

Part 2: Post-Decision Review (30-90 days later)

## Review: [Original Decision Date]

### Actual Outcome
[What actually happened?]

### Assumptions Audit
1. [Assumption 1]: [Correct / Wrong / Partially correct]
2. [Assumption 2]: [Correct / Wrong / Partially correct]

### Calibration
- Stated confidence: X%
- Would I make the same decision with same info? [Yes / No]
- Outcome due to: [good decision / luck / bad decision / bad luck]

Part 3: Post-Mortem (When Things Go Wrong)

Phase 1: Just the Facts (No Interpretation)

Timeline of observable events only. No opinions, no "I should have."

Phase 2: Root Cause (The 5 Whys)

1. Why did [outcome] happen? → Because [cause 1]
2. Why? → Because [cause 2]
3. Why? → Because [cause 3]
4. Why? → Because [cause 4]
5. Why? → Because [ROOT CAUSE]

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 1mo ago First seen · 135 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 6d302a334b62

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decision-journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository winstonkoh87/Athena-Public (619 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,009 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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