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Explain My Decision To Me
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-06
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-thinking
Talk through a decision out loud with a patient thinking partner that reflects your reasoning back, so the answer you already half-know becomes clear. Use when asked help me think this through, I need to talk this out, be my sounding board, or I don't know what I actually think. Produces a structured reflection of your own reasoning — what you've actually said, the values driving it, the contradictions and gaps, and the question that would clarify it — acting as a rubber-duck / sounding board rather than handing you an answer you didn't reach yourself.
🗣 Say this to your agent
“Help me think through whether to end this relationship.”“I need to talk this out — be my sounding board.”“I don't know what I actually think about this offer.”“Rubber-duck this decision with me.”“Just reflect my reasoning back so I can hear it.”
What to give it
▸The decision — what you're trying to figure out
▸Your current thinking — talk it through, messy is fine
▸What's making it hard — the tension or the stuck point
▸What you want from this — clarity, permission, or a real answer
✅ 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.
✓Accurately reflects the person's own reasoning
✓Surfaces the underlying values
✓Flags genuine contradictions
✓Names the gaps being avoided
✓Ends with a clarifying question, not an imposed answer
✓Offers a verdict only if explicitly asked
⚠️ What it refuses to do
**Jumping to a recommendation** the person didn't ask for.
**Restating without insight** — just echoing.
**Missing the contradiction** that holds the answer.
**Leading them** to a predetermined conclusion.
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
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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