decision-memo
Write a crisp decision memo that drives a clear decision, not a discussion. Use when asked to write a decision memo, a recommendation memo, a one/six-pager for a decision, or to get leadership to decide something. Produces a decision memo — the decision & recommendation up front, the context, options with trade-offs, what you'd need to believe, risks, and the explicit ask with a deadline.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill decision-memo --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 Memo Skill A decision memo exists to get a decision made — fast, on the record, by the right person. The failure mode is a memo that reads like a discussion: lots of context, no recommendation, no ask. This skill front-loads the recommendation and the decision being requested, then *supports* it — so the reader can say yes, no, or "here's my concern" in five minutes. ## Required Inputs Ask for these only if they aren't already provided: - **The decision** — the specific choice to be made (phrase it as a question with a yes/no or A/B/C answer). - **The recommendation** — your actual recommendation (a memo without one is a status update). - **The options** considered and their trade-offs. - **The decider & deadline** — who owns this call and by when. ## Output Format ### Decision Memo: [the decision] **To:** [decider] · **From:** [you] · **Date:** [date] · **Decision needed by:** [date] **1. Recommendation (TL;DR)** — the recommendation in 2–3 sentences, *first*. What you want them to approve, and the one-line why. **2. The decision** — the question being decided, framed so the answer is a clear choice. **3. Context** — the minimum background needed to evaluate it (link th
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What does the decision-memo skill do?
Write a crisp decision memo that drives a clear decision, not a discussion. Use when asked to write a decision memo, a recommendation memo, a one/six-pager for a decision, or to get leadership to decide something. Produces a decision memo — the decision & recommendation up front, the context, options with trade-offs, what you'd need to believe, risks, and the explicit ask with a deadline.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill decision-memo --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.