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Franklin Decision Ledger
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-26
🔷 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.
✅ 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 pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
<div data-pm-skill="franklin-decision-ledger"></div>
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