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Decision Log Setup
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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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.
What to give it
▸Where decisions currently happen — the meetings, threads, and hallways; capture wires into real venues, and unwired venues keep leaking
▸The platform — a doc, a wiki page, a database/table; sortable-and-searchable beats beautiful, and the log lives where the team already looks
▸The scope line — which decisions get logged (the test: would someone plausibly ask "why" in six months?) vs. the operational micro-calls that don't; over-logging kills the habit as surely as under-logging kills the value
▸The relitigation history — the decisions that keep reopening; they get back-filled first, because they're the demonstration
✅ 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 field fits the one-line discipline; whys include the rejected alternative
✓Capture is attached to named existing moments with named writers
✓The reopening default is stated and per-decision triggers are possible
✓The link-first response habit has been demonstrated on a real why-question
✓Back-fill stopped at the greatest hits
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not log without the rejected alternative — "we chose X" without "over Y because Z" relitigates fine
Do not build capture as new ceremony — hitch to rituals that already happen
Do not log everything — the six-month-why test keeps the log readable and the habit light
Do not let new-people-energy reopen settled calls — the rule distinguishes information from mood
Do not write and never link — retrieval is where the log earns; capture alone is journaling
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-mcpRelated skills
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