Durable unresolved-decision lifecycle Agent Skill

Agent-only policy for completing investigations and visual reviews without losing unresolved captain decisions.

Context cost
975 tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 3.9 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
not declarednone named by its author
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Agent-only policy for completing investigations and visual reviews without losing unresolved captain decisions. Load before treating an investigation, scout report, structured review, or Lavish review as complete, before ending a visual review that exposed a decision, and when recording or routing the captain's answer.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

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The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md3.9 kB · preview
--- name: decision-hold-lifecycle user-invocable: false metadata: internal: true ---
11# Durable unresolved-decision lifecycle
12
13This skill is the single policy owner for unresolved captain decisions discovered by an investigation or visual review.
14
15## Policy
16
17Every unresolved decision that belongs to the captain and is discovered while producing, reading, presenting, or ending an investigation or visual review must become a structured captain-held work item in the authoritative backlog of the home that owns the originating work before that work or review may be treated as complete.
18The agent performs the semantic inventory because scripts must not infer decisions from report prose, visual-review artifacts, terminal output, or chat.
19Give each distinct unresolved decision a stable privacy-safe key, register it through bin/fm-decision-hold.sh hold, and use the same key on retry so registration is idempotent while different decisions retain different durable identities.
20After inventorying the whole report and review surface, run bin/fm-decision-hold.sh complete with every unresolved key, or with --none only when the reviewed surface contains no unresolved captain decision.
21A completed investigation and an ended visual review use this same owner and completion command; a visual tool, including Lavish, never owns a parallel completion policy.
22Run the command in the originating work's authoritative FM_HOME; main-home work creates main-home holds, and secondmate-owned work creates holds in that secondmate home's backlog rather than copying them into the main backlog.
23Do not close a hold merely because the originating investigation completed, its report was archived, its visual review ended, or its task was torn down.
24The hold remains the authoritative Captain's Call item until the captain's answer is durably recorded, dependent work is created in the same backlog and blocked by that hold, and bin/fm-decision-hold.sh resolve routes the answer by clearing those dependency edges before closing the hold.
25Resolved findings, recommendations that need no captain choice, and prose that merely sounds decision-like do not create holds.
26Bearings reads the resulting structured state and must never compensate by scraping historical reports, visual-review artifacts, terminal output, chat, or other prose.
27
28## Operating sequence
29
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md550 words
Files1
Licencenot declared
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈110
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
865
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
0.49%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 5% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

975 tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Small enough to keep loaded permanently without thinking about it.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 3.9 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md3.9 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Durable unresolved-decision lifecycle · 975 tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle ] || { mv .claude/skills/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add karanmrn/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as decision-hold-lifecycle in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencekaranmrn/durable-unresolved-decision-lifecycle

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