Explore a question through Socratic dialogue, rationality and systems-thinking prompts.
Decision-Making & Thinking Skills for Claude Code, Codex & AI Agents
These skills help an agent surface assumptions and compare choices before a commitment. Members include decision records, thinking sessions, theory grounding, opportunity analysis, councils, and perspective prompts.
26 skillsExplore Decision-Making & Thinking skills
14 skillsdbs-action · Action Blocker Diagnosis
Use an Adlerian psychology framework to examine procrastination or interrupted action when you already know what you intend to do.
grilling
Run structured rounds of questions to resolve the branches of a decision.
dbs-decision · Decision Knowledge Records
Build local records for decisions that need follow-up, including assumptions, outcomes, current state, and later review.
Marketing Psychology
Apply behavioral models to messaging and decisions while testing assumptions against evidence.
dbs-chatroom · Expert Discussion Simulation
Recommend or use named experts to simulate a multi-role discussion on a topic and summarize their disagreements.
Compare perspectives from configured thinker personas to examine complex decisions and record a reasoned outcome.
Marketing Council
Simulate different marketing lenses, surface disagreements and synthesize a decision with sources.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Perspective
Examine uncertainty through asymmetric risks, antifragility, skin in the game, subtraction and domain boundaries.
Naval Ravikant Perspective
Examine work and life choices through specific knowledge, leverage, long-term compounding and the costs of desire.
Doubt-Driven Development
Cross-examine non-trivial engineering decisions using fresh-context adversarial review and explicit stop conditions.
Charlie Munger Perspective
Review decisions with a latticework of mental models, inversion, incentives, cognitive biases and a circle of competence.
Life Decision Guide
Research everyday decisions against the Chinese How to Live Better guide, with source references, costs and evidence levels.
Elon Musk Perspective
Examine engineering assumptions, costs and processes with first principles, physical limits and iterative simplification.
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How to choose Decision-Making & Thinking skills
Use concept or theory skills when the question is fuzzy, scoring or opportunity skills when choices need ranking, and a decision record when the conclusion must remain findable.
- Clarify a confusing business concept
- Compare options with an explicit decision record
- Score opportunities before choosing one





