# Choose Options With Clear Tradeoffs

Important choices often stall when options and risks are unclear. This skill structures a decision, compares options, and gives a firm recommendation with revisit triggers.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add bellabe/decision-action
```

## Metadata

- - Slug: bellabe-decision-action
- - Version: 1.0
- - Author: BellaBe
- - GitHub username: BellaBe
- - License: MIT
- - Repository: https://github.com/BellaBe/lean-os/tree/main/.claude/skills/action-decision
- - Ref: main
- - Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- - Risk level: low
- - Quality score: 78
- - Quality tier: bronze
- - Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/bellabe-decision-action
- - Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/bellabe-decision-action/manifest

## Capabilities

- Defines the decision that needs a clear answer.
- Lists available options and includes doing nothing when relevant.
- Compares options against explicit decision criteria.
- Makes a clear recommendation instead of only describing choices.
- States key risks, tradeoffs, and revisit triggers.

## Use Cases

- Prioritize Product Work: Compare roadmap items using impact, effort, risk, and timing. Leave with one recommended next priority.
- Make Technical Tradeoffs: Choose between implementation approaches using reliability, maintainability, delivery speed, and operational risk.
- Decide Go Or No-Go: Review readiness, blockers, risks, and revisit triggers before committing to a launch or initiative.

## Prompt Templates

### Choose Between Options

```
Help me choose between these options: [options]. My goal is [goal]. Compare them and recommend one choice.
```

### Prioritize A Shortlist

```
Prioritize these items: [items]. Use these criteria: [criteria]. Include do nothing if it is a real option.
```

### Make A Go Or No-Go Decision

```
Assess whether we should go or no-go on [decision]. Consider readiness, risks, constraints, and revisit triggers.
```

### Evaluate A Strategic Tradeoff

```
Make a recommendation for [decision]. Compare [options] across [criteria], explain tradeoffs, and define triggers for revisiting the choice.
```

## Limitations

- Does not create execution plans or project schedules.
- Does not replace expert legal, medical, or financial advice.
- Works best when the user provides options, goals, and constraints.
- Does not gather external market data by itself.

## Best Practices

- Provide the real options, constraints, and decision deadline.
- Name the criteria that matter most before asking for a recommendation.
- Ask for risks and revisit triggers when the decision has uncertainty.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not use it when you only need a task execution plan.
- Do not ask for a firm choice without giving enough context.
- Do not treat the recommendation as expert advice in regulated domains.

## Security Audit

- - Safe to publish: true
- - Audited at: 2026-06-28T14:39:49.367\+00:00
- - Summary: The static weak cryptographic algorithm finding at SKILL.md:3 is a false positive. The line is a natural-language description, and no cryptography, code execution, network access, or prompt injection text was found.

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