explain-my-decision-to-me
Talk through a decision out loud with a patient thinking partner that reflects your reasoning back, so the answer you already half-know becomes clear. Use when asked help me think this through, I need to talk this out, be my sounding board, or I don't know what I actually think. Produces a structured reflection of your own reasoning — what you've actually said, the values driving it, the contradictions and gaps, and the question that would clarify it — acting as a rubber-duck / sounding board rather than handing you an answer you didn't reach yourself.
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill explain-my-decision-to-me --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.
# Explain My Decision To Me Often you already know what you think — you just haven't heard yourself say it. This is a sounding board: you talk through a decision, and it reflects your reasoning back in a structured way, names the values underneath, points out where you contradict yourself, and asks the question that brings it into focus. It doesn't decide for you; it helps *you* decide, which is a different and often better thing. ## What This Skill Produces - **Your reasoning, reflected** — a clear restatement of what you've actually said, so you can hear it - **The values underneath** — what your reasoning reveals you actually care about (often clearer than you realized) - **The contradictions** — where what you're saying doesn't line up (a strong signal about the real answer) - **The gaps** — what you haven't figured out or are talking around - **The clarifying question** — the single question that would bring the decision into focus ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The decision** — what you're trying to figure out - **Your current thinking** — talk it through, messy is fine - **What's making it hard** — the tension or the stuck point - **What you want from
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: Reflect, Don't Prescribe
- Output Format
- Thinking through: [the decision]
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
- Example Trigger Phrases
What does the explain-my-decision-to-me skill do?
Talk through a decision out loud with a patient thinking partner that reflects your reasoning back, so the answer you already half-know becomes clear. Use when asked help me think this through, I need to talk this out, be my sounding board, or I don't know what I actually think. Produces a structured reflection of your own reasoning — what you've actually said, the values driving it, the contradictions and gaps, and the question that would clarify it — acting as a rubber-duck / sounding board rather than handing you an answer you didn't reach yourself.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill explain-my-decision-to-me --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 1,277 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.