What do I need to use Async Decision Memo?

The decision; The people; The clock; The stakes.

Is Async Decision Memo free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Async Decision Memo

Q: How do I know the Async Decision Memo output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Exactly one named decider; consulted people listed individually; The recommendation appears before the context, not after it; "What would change my mind" names specific evidence, not humility theatre; The window has a date, time, and timezone; the silence rule is stated in the kickoff.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-02 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-operations

Run a decision asynchronously — the memo, the silent-read window, the comment protocol, and the deadline that makes it land without a meeting. Use when asked to decide something async, replace a decision meeting with a document, run an Amazon-style written decision process, or when a decision keeps stalling in comment threads. Produces the decision memo plus the process wrapper: reader roles, response windows, comment-resolution rules, and the tie-breaker. For the document structure alone use decision-memo; this skill runs the process around it.

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What to give it

▸The decision — what's being decided, the options, the recommendation and its reasoning (rough notes fine)

▸The people — who *decides* (one name), who must be *consulted* (their objection could change the answer), who is merely *informed*

▸The clock — when is this decision needed, and what does it block

▸The stakes — reversible or one-way-door? (Sets the window length and the bar for escalation)

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Exactly one named decider; consulted people listed individually

✓The recommendation appears before the context, not after it

✓"What would change my mind" names specific evidence, not humility theatre

✓The window has a date, time, and timezone; the silence rule is stated in the kickoff

✓The closing note records dissent verbatim and the reopen condition

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not open comments without the protocol — an unbounded comment section is the meeting you were avoiding, slower

Do not run a memo without a decider — consensus-by-exhaustion is not an outcome

Do not let threads run past 3 exchanges — two people arguing in a doc are holding everyone else hostage

Do not extend the window twice — the second extension means the memo was premature; withdraw and rewrite it

Do not soften recorded dissent into "some concerns were raised" — the dissenter's actual words, or the record is fiction

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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