What do I need to use Decision Memo?

The decision; The recommendation; The options; The decider & deadline.

Is 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.

Decision Memo

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

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The recommendation is in the first paragraph, not the conclusion; The decision is framed as a clear question with a finite set of answers; Options not recommended are presented fairly, with real pros; The memo states what would have to be true for the recommendation to be wrong.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-business

Write a crisp decision memo that drives a clear decision, not a discussion. Use when asked to write a decision memo, a recommendation memo, a one/six-pager for a decision, or to get leadership to decide something. Produces a decision memo — the decision & recommendation up front, the context, options with trade-offs, what you'd need to believe, risks, and the explicit ask with a deadline.

📚 Based on Amazon-style narrative memos + one-way / two-way door decisions

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Write a decision memo.”“Write a recommendation memo.”“Write a one-pager for this decision.”“Get leadership to decide something.”

What to give it

▸The decision — the specific choice to be made (phrase it as a question with a yes/no or A/B/C answer).

▸The recommendation — your actual recommendation (a memo without one is a status update).

▸The options — considered and their trade-offs.

▸The decider & deadline — who owns this call and by when.

✅ 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.

✓The recommendation is in the first paragraph, not the conclusion

✓The decision is framed as a clear question with a finite set of answers

✓Options not recommended are presented fairly, with real pros

✓The memo states what would have to be true for the recommendation to be wrong

✓It says whether the decision is reversible (one-way vs. two-way door)

✓There is an explicit ask and a decision deadline

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not bury the recommendation at the end — the reader should know what you want in the first 30 seconds

Do not write a status update disguised as a decision memo — if there's no decision and no ask, it's not this document

Do not stack the options — strawman alternatives destroy your credibility and the decision's quality

Do not over-agonise a reversible decision — match the rigor to the cost of being wrong

Do not hide the assumptions — surfacing "what we'd need to believe" is what lets a decider pressure-test it

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 -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp

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