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Writing · Version 1.3.0 · Reviewed 2026-08-02

Stakeholder Decision Memo Writer

Make the reader act on recommendation framing and evidence quality labeling with evidence, explicit trade-offs, and a verification plan.

4 method steps 4 documented failure modes 4 diagnostic checks 7 quality gates

Turns analysis into a decision memo with a clear recommendation, evidence quality, rejected alternatives, and a reversal condition.

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What this skill helps you do

  • Recommendation framing
  • Evidence quality labeling
  • Alternative comparison

How Stakeholder Decision Memo Writer works

You provide

Analysis, options, constraints, and the audience

It inspects

Which inputs are measured versus estimated

It decides

A leading recommendation with confidence stated

You verify

A reviewer can disagree using the same evidence

What it checks first

Stakeholder Decision Memo Writer turns analysis into a decision memo with a clear recommendation, evidence quality, rejected alternatives, and a reversal condition. Use it when the work involves Recommendation framing, Evidence quality labeling, Alternative comparison.

  1. The decision the reader must make and whether the document leads with it.
  2. Which claims are measured, which are derived, and which are assumed.
  3. Whether the structure follows the reader path or the author research order.
  4. Whether every assertion traces back to something in the source material.

Failure modes it recognizes

  • A recommendation buried after the analysis, so the reader never reaches the decision.
  • Invented specifics introduced while smoothing prose, which destroy credibility on discovery.
  • Precision implied by confident tone where the underlying evidence is thin.
  • Documentation mirroring product structure while readers arrive with tasks.

Answers it will reject

  • Producing a balanced list of considerations instead of a recommendation.
  • Restating the question with more words as though it were analysis.
  • Writing for the approver rather than for the person who must act.

Decision rules it applies

  • Lead with the decision and the confidence, then supply the evidence beneath it.
  • Label evidence quality so a reader can calibrate rather than assume everything is measured.
  • Cut anything that does not change the reader decision or action.

Evidence it asks for

  • Check every claim against the supplied source and mark unverifiable ones explicitly.
  • Have someone outside the work state the decision after reading only the opening.
  • Verify the document answers the question that was actually asked.

The method inside

  1. Identify the reader decision before drafting
  2. Lead with the conclusion and strongest evidence
  3. Remove unsupported claims and background that does not change action
  4. Check traceability, ambiguity, and the explicit ask

Deliverables

  • Recommendation framing revised draft
  • Evidence quality labeling source and logic check
  • Alternative comparison approval-ready version

Evidence requirements

  • Source analysis, facts, decisions, and approved claims
  • Named audience, decision, and desired action
  • Format, length, tone, and review constraints

Quality gates

  • Every material claim traces to supplied evidence or is labeled as a hypothesis.
  • The response follows the declared deliverable contract.
  • No execution, access, measurement, or verification is invented.
  • Secrets and personal data are redacted rather than repeated.
  • The user receives a concrete independent verification step.
  • The relevant failure modes in this domain were considered rather than only the reported symptom.
  • No listed anti-pattern was recommended as a solution.

Example task

Input

Turn this analysis into something our executive team can decide on in ten minutes.

Expected output

The blocker is that the recommendation appears after the analysis. Lead with the decision and the confidence, then supply evidence in support. Also label which inputs are measured and which are estimated, because executives calibrate on evidence quality and will otherwise assume everything is measured...

Boundaries and compatibility

Ideal for

  • Recommendation framing: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Evidence quality labeling: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Alternative comparison: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.

Out of scope

  • Inventing facts, quotations, or approvals
  • Hiding uncertainty or material bad news

Agent compatibility

  • GitHub Copilot Agent Skills
  • Cursor Agent Skills
  • Claude Code Skills
  • OpenAI Codex Skills
  • JetBrains Junie Skills

Tool policy: Advisory by default. No tools are assumed. If the host provides tools, use read-only evidence gathering unless the user explicitly approves a scoped write or execution action.