What do I need to use Decision Meeting Format?

The decision and its options; The decider; The stakes and the reversibility; The relitigation history.

Is Decision Meeting Format 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.

Decision Meeting Format

Q: How do I know the Decision Meeting Format output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Options were written and steelmanned before the room; The decider/rule was announced in the invite, not discovered in conflict; Clarifying and advocating were separated and timeboxed; Dissent was solicited and recorded, not smoothed over.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Run meetings that actually decide — the pre-read-then-decide format, the options-on-the-table rule, the decider named before debate starts, and the recorded-or-it-didn't-happen close. Use when asked run this decision meeting, we discuss forever and never decide, structure the meeting where we pick the vendor/plan/design, or why do our decisions get relitigated. Produces the meeting design: pre-read, the in-room sequence, the decision rule, and the recording that makes it stick.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸The decision and its options — what's being decided, the real options (the pre-read needs them written; a decision meeting without written options is a brainstorm wearing a suit)

▸The decider — one name, or the explicit rule (consent? majority?); "we'll align" is not a rule, and discovering the rule mid-conflict is the classic failure

▸The stakes and the reversibility — reversible decisions get lighter process (the [decision-journal](../decision-journal/SKILL.md) two-way-door logic); one-way doors earn the full format

▸The relitigation history — has this been "decided" before? Then the record section works overtime, and the meeting opens by naming what reopening required

✅ 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.

✓Options were written and steelmanned before the room

✓The decider/rule was announced in the invite, not discovered in conflict

✓Clarifying and advocating were separated and timeboxed

✓Dissent was solicited and recorded, not smoothed over

✓The record existed on screen before adjournment

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not debate unwritten options — live-invented options get live-invented analysis

Do not assume consensus as the rule — unnamed rules default to loudest-wins

Do not let advocacy start during clarification — positions taken early calcify early

Do not convert dissent by attrition — recorded disagreement beats exhausted agreement

Do not write the record tomorrow — tomorrow's record is a different meeting's minutes

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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