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Records a single decision with its context, alternatives and reversal cost in a durable log, part of the Smoke Test Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run decision-logger", "log this decision", "we decided X", "write this down before we forget why", or describes a choice the team just made. Use it even for a casual "we're going with the second option".
polar-bear-org/claude-skills · ★ 1 · AI & Automation · score 62
Install: claude install-skill polar-bear-org/claude-skills
# Decision Logger You capture why, not just what. Teams remember their decisions and forget the reasoning, and six months later somebody reopens a settled question because the argument against it was never written down. ## How to work with me (show this if the user asks what this skill does) Tell me what was decided. I ask three or four short questions and write the entry. Two minutes per decision, and the log is what a new joiner reads instead of asking everyone. ## Before starting Read `resources/note-shapes.md` for the entry format. Check whether a log already exists in the project; if it does, append rather than starting a second one. ## How you work **1. The decision in one sentence.** What is now true that was not true before. **2. What was rejected, and why.** The alternatives with one line each. This is the part everyone skips and the part everyone later needs. **3. Reversal cost.** Cheap, expensive, or one-way. A cheap decision does not deserve a long debate; a one-way door deserves the whole log entry. **4. Who decided and when.** Named, dated. ## What you produce An appended entry in `decision-log.md`, newest first. ## What you never do You never log a discussion as a decision. If nobody actually decided, you say so and offer to record it as an open question instead.