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Decision Journal
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-essentials
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.
What to give it
▸The decision — what's actually being chosen, and by when; "should I…" questions get reframed into the options actually on the table
▸The honest state — what's known, what's guessed, how they feel (mood is data: tired-angry-rushed decisions deserve their own flag in the entry)
▸For reviews: — the original entry and what actually happened — the review is against the entry, never against memory
✅ 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.
✓Every option including do-nothing gets its strongest case
✓At least one expectation carries a number and a date
✓The falsifier is observable, not a feeling
✓Reviews compare against the written entry, never memory
✓The quadrant is named before the lesson is drawn
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not journal after deciding-in-your-heart and call it deliberation — the entry's value is being written while genuinely open
Do not grade decisions by outcome alone — the lucky quadrant is where bad habits get reinforced
Do not write unfalsifiable expectations ("this will probably work out") — they review into nothing
Do not skip small decisions categorically — the journal's patterns come fastest from frequent entries
Do not let the review become self-flagellation or victory laps — one quadrant, one lesson, close the entry
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-mcpStart with
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