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decide — Structured Decision Workflow + Decision Log

Triages the 37signals 38-question decision guide down to 6–8 load-bearing questions, forces a clear call, and archives the rationale with a revisit date.

UtilitiesBeginner★ 727⑂ 58AI score 10/10Last updated: Aug 28, 2026

What it does

  • Frames the decision first: one-sentence statement, stakes (low/medium/high), reversibility (easy/hard/one-way door), and deadline. If anything is vague, it asks instead of proceeding.
  • Triages the 37signals decision guide (38 questions) plus house additions like Q39 opportunity cost ("what does saying yes displace?") down to 6–8 relevant questions. Five defaults always apply: does this need deciding, is the right person deciding, how reversible is it, what's your first instinct, how will you feel in a year.
  • Captures your gut call (Q9) before any analysis, so you can later tell whether the "analysis" was really rationalization.
  • Forces one of five outcomes — decide now, decide smaller, wait, don't decide, or hand to the right decider — stated without hedging.
  • Sets a revisit date scaled to the decision type (tools 30 days, strategy 90 days, hires/partnerships 90–180 days) plus what evidence to check.
  • Archives each decision to ~/.config/makerskills/decide/archive/ as YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md and appends to an INDEX.md, so past calls are greppable.

Who it's for

  • Founders and solo operators who stall on decisions
  • PMs and team leads who need the rationale written down and shareable
  • Anyone prone to analysis paralysis
  • People who want to audit their own judgment over time

Example uses

  1. "Should I raise my SaaS pricing?" — pulls in money questions (Q38 is this really about money, Q39 opportunity cost) plus customer-impact questions, and archives with a 90-day check on MRR and churn.
  2. "Should I accept this partnership?" — flagged as a one-way door, so it adds Q14, Q17 and Q34, then sets a 180-day revisit asking "did the partner actually ship?".
  3. "I've been stuck on a hire for two months" — uses the stuck cluster (why hasn't this been decided, what if we don't decide, do you even care) to force either a call or an explicit wait.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r makerskills/skills/decide ~/.claude/skills/

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  1. Open your terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, WSL or Git Bash on Windows).
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills.git
  3. Create the skills directory if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the whole skill folder, including its references/questions.md: cp -r makerskills/skills/decide ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify with ls ~/.claude/skills/decide — you should see SKILL.md and a references folder.
  6. Restart Claude Code and try /decide or "help me decide whether to…".
  7. Decisions are archived to ~/.config/makerskills/decide/archive/; search them later with grep -r "pricing" ~/.config/makerskills/decide/archive/.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT