decision-log-setup
Set up the team decision log that ends relitigation — the one-line-per-decision format (what, why, who, when, reopening rule), the capture moments wired into existing rituals, and the lookup habit that makes it pay. Use when asked set up a decision log, we keep re-deciding the same things, where do decisions get recorded, or new people keep asking why we do X. Produces the log format, the capture wiring, the reopening rule, and the retrieval habits.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill decision-log-setup --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 Log Setup Skill Teams re-decide because decisions evaporate: made in a meeting, mentioned in a thread, remembered differently by everyone, and relitigated the moment someone new (or someone persistent) asks "wait, why do we…?" The decision log is the cheapest institutional memory there is — one line per decision (what, why, who, when, and the reopening rule) — but logs fail as shelf-ware unless *capture is wired into existing moments* (the meeting's last five minutes, the thread's landing) and *retrieval becomes reflex* ("checked the log?" as the first response to why-questions). ## What This Skill Produces - **The format** — the five-field line, with the two-sentence-why discipline and the option-we-rejected field that does the anti-relitigation work - **The capture wiring** — the existing moments ([decision-meeting-format](../decision-meeting-format/SKILL.md) closes, [thread-to-decision](../thread-to-decision/SKILL.md) landings, 1:1 calls) that now end with a log line - **The reopening rule** — what reopens a decision (new information) and what doesn't (new mood, new people) - **The retrieval habits** — the log-first reflex, the onboarding tour, the link-not-relitigate
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Log Rules
- Output Format
- The Format
- Capture Wiring
- The Reopening Rule
- Retrieval Habits
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the decision-log-setup skill do?
Set up the team decision log that ends relitigation — the one-line-per-decision format (what, why, who, when, reopening rule), the capture moments wired into existing rituals, and the lookup habit that makes it pay. Use when asked set up a decision log, we keep re-deciding the same things, where do decisions get recorded, or new people keep asking why we do X. Produces the log format, the capture wiring, the reopening rule, and the retrieval habits.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill decision-log-setup --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.