What do I need to use Franklin Decision Ledger?

The two options, stated as the user would say them; Everything currently pulling them each way, however small; The deadline, and what happens if they decide; Who else the decision lands on.

Is Franklin Decision Ledger 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.

Franklin Decision Ledger

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

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Weights came from the user — the assistant proposed none, but challenged at; least one; The cancellation pass actually happened, pairs named — without it this is an; ordinary pros/cons list and the skill has failed.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06 ✅ 4/5 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-dead-mentors

Run a hard two-option decision through Benjamin Franklin's 'moral or prudential algebra' — the weighted pro/con method he described to Joseph Priestley in 1772 — including the part everyone skips: striking out reasons that cancel, and letting the ledger sit before deciding. Use when weighing job offers, relocations, build-vs-buy, take-the-promotion, shut-it-down decisions, or any 'I keep going back and forth'. Produces a completed decision ledger with a leaning, its strongest counter, and a revisit date.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft ⬇ Add to Claude (works in Duet) 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Help me decide between these two options.”“Weigh the pros and cons properly.”“Run Franklin's pro and con method on this choice.”“I can't decide whether to take the job.”

What to give it

▸The two options, stated as the user would say them — if there are three, split the decision or run twice — the algebra is pairwise

▸Everything currently pulling them each way, however small — or embarrassing

▸The deadline, and what happens if they decide — nothing

▸Who else the decision lands on — (family, team) — their motives belong in the ledger

✅ 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.

✓Weights came from the user — the assistant proposed none, but challenged at

✓least one

✓The cancellation pass actually happened, pairs named — without it this is an

✓ordinary pros/cons list and the skill has failed

✓The strongest counter-reason is presented in its best form (steelman), not

✓its dismissible form

✓Motives affecting other people appear in the ledger, attributed

✓The output ends with a revisit date, not just a verdict — the waiting period

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not decide for the user — the algebra's output is a *leaning* plus its

strongest counter; the user decides

Do not fill the ledger with invented motives to look thorough; every entry

traces to something the user said or confirmed

Do not let weights masquerade as objectivity — surface that a 5-point fear

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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