Managers constantly have to choose between options, but there is rarely time to weigh every alternative cleanly against the others. This skill takes over exactly that: it sharpens the decision question, sets weighted evaluation criteria, scores each option against them with a rationale, and closes with a clear recommendation together with a risk assessment and next steps.
\nIt is built for anyone who needs to prepare a decision or justify it to stakeholders: team leads ahead of a tool or vendor choice, management ahead of an investment question, project leads ahead of a prioritization decision. The result is a document that decision makers can grasp in a few minutes, not just a loose list of pros and cons.
\nWhat it deliberately does not do: it evaluates with the options and data you give it, or explicitly flags missing information as an assumption. It does not research external market data and does not make the decision itself, the recommendation remains a proposal for review. Where the decision has legal or contractual weight, the dossier does not replace legal advice.
\n" }, { "id": "skill-text", "title": "Skill Text", "html": "Copy the prompt below in full into your AI tool. As a file: entscheidungs-dossier.en.json
\n" } ], "schritte": [ { "nr": 1, "titel": "Enter the decision question, options and context", "beschreibung": "What needs to be decided, which options are available, and why the decision needs to be made now are provided.", "rolle": "mensch" }, { "nr": 2, "titel": "Define evaluation criteria", "beschreibung": "Four to six weighted criteria are set and the decision question is sharpened.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 3, "titel": "Score the options", "beschreibung": "Each option is scored against every criterion with a rationale.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 4, "titel": "Formulate the recommendation", "beschreibung": "A clear recommendation with rationale and next steps is produced.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 5, "titel": "Decision template", "beschreibung": "The finished document with the scoring matrix, pros and cons, risk assessment and recommendation is ready.", "rolle": "ergebnis" } ], "herausgeber": "Voyage Digital", "version": "2.0", "stand": "2026-07-26", "umsetzung": [ { "titel": "Choose a real decision", "text": "Starting with a decision that is already under discussion works best." }, { "titel": "Sharpen options and criteria beforehand", "text": "Before starting, the options and, where available, the key evaluation criteria are noted down so the input is complete." }, { "titel": "Set up the skill", "text": "The skill text is copied and the placeholders are filled in with the relevant details." }, { "titel": "Cross check the template", "text": "The scoring matrix, risk assessment and recommendation are reviewed for plausibility by a second person before being shared." }, { "titel": "Share with stakeholders", "text": "The finished template is distributed to the decision makers who make the final call." } ], "zutaten": [ "Decision question", "Options", "Context" ], "beispielSzenario": "A team lead needs to recommend to management whether the company should choose Tool A, Tool B, or build the solution in house. He gives the skill the three options, the evaluation criteria such as cost, implementation time, scalability and team acceptance, and the available data on each option. The skill creates a weighted scoring matrix, scores each option against every criterion with a rationale, and formulates a clear recommendation together with a risk assessment.", "eingaben": [ { "feld": "Decision question", "pflicht": true }, { "feld": "Options", "pflicht": true }, { "feld": "Context", "pflicht": true }, { "feld": "Evaluation criteria", "pflicht": false }, { "feld": "Available data on the options", "pflicht": false }, { "feld": "Stakeholders and their preferences", "pflicht": false }, { "feld": "Budget or time frame", "pflicht": false }, { "feld": "Prior discussions or pre-commitments", "pflicht": false } ], "ausgabe": "A sharpened decision question, brief context, an options overview, a weighted scoring matrix, pros and cons per option, a risk assessment, a substantiated recommendation and concrete next steps with ownership.", "prompt": "# DESCRIPTION\nYou create a structured decision template. You analyze the options presented, evaluate them against traceable criteria, and close with a clear, substantiated recommendation for decision makers. Address the user in a professional manner throughout. If facts or data on an option are missing, explicitly mark your own assessment as an assumption and keep it visibly separate from substantiated information. The recommendation is a proposal, the final decision rests with the people who are accountable for it.\n\n# INPUT\n- Decision question: what needs to be decided (required)\n- Options: at least two to choose from (required)\n- Context: why this decision is needed (required)\n- Optional: evaluation criteria such as cost, time, quality, risk, available data on the options, stakeholders and their preferences, budget or time frame, prior discussions or pre-commitments\n\n# OUTPUT\nStructured decision template with the following sections:\n1. Decision question: stated clearly in one sentence\n2. Context: why this decision is needed, in five sentences or fewer\n3. Options overview: brief description of each option\n4. Scoring matrix: criteria against options with scoring\n5. Pros and cons per option: strengths and weaknesses\n6. Risk assessment: risks per option with likelihood of occurrence\n7. Recommendation: clear recommendation with rationale\n8. Next steps: what happens after the decision\nLength: 500 to 1,000 words\n\n# CONTEXT\n- Global placeholders: COMPANY, INDUSTRY, TARGET AUDIENCE\n- Skill-specific: role of the user, company values as an evaluation frame\n- Domain knowledge: decision theory, scoring matrices, risk management\n- Constraint: the recommendation is a proposal, the final decision rests with the human. Never invent facts, always mark missing data as an assumption.\n\n# WORKING INSTRUCTIONS\n## Step 1: Sharpen the decision question\nPhrase the question so it can be answered with one of the options.\n- Rule: phrase it as \"Should we do A, B or C\", not \"What should we do\"\n- Rule: clearly define the scope of the decision\n- No-go: leaving overly vague decision questions unaddressed\n\n## Step 2: Define evaluation criteria\nDetermine which criteria the options are evaluated against.\n- Rule: choose four to six criteria, more dilutes the analysis, fewer is incomplete\n- Rule: weight the criteria, not all of them carry equal importance\n- Rule: criteria must be measurable or at least assessable\n- No-go: using overlapping criteria\n\n## Step 3: Score the options\nScore each option against each criterion.\n- Rule: use a scoring system, for example a scale from 1 to 5 or High/Medium/Low\n- Rule: justify every score, do not just assign numbers\n- Rule: also consider the option of doing nothing, if it is relevant\n- No-go: leaving scores without a rationale\n\n## Step 4: Formulate the recommendation\nGive a clear recommendation with a rationale.\n- Rule: exactly one recommendation, not several\n- Rule: tie the rationale back to the evaluation criteria\n- Rule: name the conditions under which the recommendation holds\n- No-go: giving \"it depends\" as a recommendation\n\n## Step 5: Define next steps\nDetermine what happens after the decision.\n- Rule: name concrete first steps with ownership\n- Rule: give a timeline for implementation\n\n# QUALITY CONTROL\n[ ] Decision question stated clearly in one sentence\n[ ] Context described in five sentences or fewer\n[ ] At least two options with a brief description\n[ ] Four to six weighted evaluation criteria defined\n[ ] Scoring matrix with score and rationale per option\n[ ] Pros and cons for every option\n[ ] Risk assessment per option\n[ ] Exactly one clear recommendation with rationale\n[ ] Next steps with ownership\n[ ] All assumptions made where no data was available clearly flagged\n[ ] Template can be grasped in five minutes\n\n# CONVERSATION START\nWhat decision are you facing? Give me the decision question, at least two options and the context for why the decision needs to be made now. Optional: which criteria should be used for the evaluation, and what data is already available on the options. From that I will put together a structured template with a scoring matrix, pros and cons per option and a clear recommendation.", "einrichtung": { "intro": "Step-by-step guides for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot Studio and Langdock.", "plattformen": [ { "plattform": "ChatGPT", "anbieter": "OpenAI", "schritte": [ "Copy the skill text above using the copy button.", "Click your profile picture and select \"Skills\".", "Click \"Create skill\" and paste the copied text as the instruction.", "Adjust inputs, outputs and format where your case requires it.", "Save the skill. It is available in all chats from that point on." ], "doku": { "label": { "de": "OpenAI Dokumentation: Skills in ChatGPT", "en": "OpenAI documentation: Skills in ChatGPT" }, "url": "https://help.openai.com/de-de/articles/20001066-skills-in-chatgpt" } }, { "plattform": "Claude", "anbieter": "Anthropic", "schritte": [ "Copy the skill text above using the copy button.", "Open claude.ai and go to \"Skills\" in your profile.", "Create a new skill and paste the copied text as the instruction.", "The skill works in claude.ai, in Claude Code and through the API.", "Available on the Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans." ], "doku": { "label": { "de": "Anthropic Dokumentation: Benutzerdefinierte Skills erstellen", "en": "Anthropic documentation: Creating custom skills" }, "url": "https://support.claude.com/de/articles/12512198-benutzerdefinierte-skills-erstellen" } }, { "plattform": "Copilot Studio", "anbieter": "Microsoft", "schritte": [ "Copy the skill text above using the copy button.", "Open 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