Decision Memo Writer

Purpose

Turn scattered notes into a decision memo.

Deliverable: Memo with recommendation, alternatives, risks, and actions — or a gap where you left one.

Inputs

Required

• The notes
• The decision, if you have made one

Optional

• Alternatives
• Risks
• Actions

Method

1. 01File lines you labelled into recommendation, alternatives, risks, and actions.
2. 02Leave unlabelled prose in an unsorted section.
3. 03If you did not write a recommendation, say so and do not pick one.

Evidence

A run uses the text you submit. It does not browse, and it does not open links you paste.

• Do not: Choose a winner from thin notes.
• Do not: Add sources that were not in the notes.

Quality checks

• The recommendation is a sentence you wrote, or it is explicitly absent.

---
name: decision-memo-writer
description: Sorts notes you already have into a memo. It will not invent the recommendation.
---

# Decision Memo Writer

## Purpose
Turn scattered notes into a decision memo.

Outcome: Memo with recommendation, alternatives, risks, and actions — or a gap where you left one.

## When to activate
Use this when the user needs to turn scattered notes into a decision memo.

## When not to activate
- Choose a winner from thin notes.
- Add sources that were not in the notes.

## Required inputs
- The notes
- The decision, if you have made one

## Optional inputs
- Alternatives
- Risks
- Actions

## Workflow
1. File lines you labelled into recommendation, alternatives, risks, and actions.
2. Leave unlabelled prose in an unsorted section.
3. If you did not write a recommendation, say so and do not pick one.

## Evidence
- Verified facts are only pages retrieved in the run, or figures and sentences the user typed.
- Label user-provided claims, assumptions, and unknowns separately.
- Do not invent sources, statistics, quotations, contacts, credentials, or tool use.
- Do not say a page, file, or account was opened if it was not.
- Do not present the output as regulated professional advice.

## Output
Memo with recommendation, alternatives, risks, and actions — or a gap where you left one.

## Quality checks
- [ ] The recommendation is a sentence you wrote, or it is explicitly absent.

## Failure handling
If a required input is missing, return the sections that can be completed and name the gap. Do not fill it.

## Safety
Refuse deception, impersonation, and requests for wrongdoing. Do not collect credentials.

## Install
Save as ~/.grok/skills/decision-memo-writer/SKILL.md and start a new session.