decision-journal
Record decisions the way good judgment compounds — the reasoning, the alternatives, the probabilities, and what would change your mind, written down BEFORE the outcome arrives, then reviewed against reality. Use when asked help me think through this decision, start a decision journal, review my past decision, or why do I keep making the same mistake. Produces the pre-registered decision entry, the review-date trigger, and the outcome review that separates bad luck from bad process.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill decision-journal --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Decision Journal Skill Memory is a defense attorney: after the outcome arrives, everyone remembers having known it all along, and the reasoning that actually drove the choice is quietly rewritten. A decision journal defeats that — the reasoning gets pre-registered *before* reality votes, so the review can ask the only question that improves judgment: *was the process good, given what was knowable then?* Good decisions lose sometimes; bad ones win sometimes; only the written record can tell you which you're making. This is the library's 600th skill because it's the one all the others compound through. ## What This Skill Produces - **The entry** — situation, the real options, the choice, the reasoning, explicit probabilities, and the pre-registered "I'm wrong if…" markers - **The review trigger** — a date and the observable that will have resolved by then - **The outcome review** — process vs. luck separated, the delta between expected and actual, and the transferable lesson - **The pattern read** — across entries: the recurring biases this specific person's journal reveals ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The decision** — what's actually being chosen, and by w
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Pre-Registration Rules
- Output Format
- Options (each at its strongest)
- The Call
- Outcome Review — [date]
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the decision-journal skill do?
Record decisions the way good judgment compounds — the reasoning, the alternatives, the probabilities, and what would change your mind, written down BEFORE the outcome arrives, then reviewed against reality. Use when asked help me think through this decision, start a decision journal, review my past decision, or why do I keep making the same mistake. Produces the pre-registered decision entry, the review-date trigger, and the outcome review that separates bad luck from bad process.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill decision-journal --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.