The Decision Clarity Framework

High-stakes decisions — career moves, business pivots, major investments, relationship commitments — are made worse by almost everything humans naturally do. Confirmation bias filters out the evidence you do not want to see. Loss aversion makes you overweight the downside. Sunk cost fallacy makes past investment feel like future obligation. Social pressure from people who will not bear the consequences shapes the analysis.

The Decision Clarity Framework is a systematic antidote to all of them. It starts by classifying the decision as reversible or irreversible — the foundational question that determines how much effort it deserves. Then it runs a personalized cognitive bias audit specific to this decision, executes a pre-mortem that surfaces the risks optimism suppresses, and maps second and third-order consequences that most decisions look past.

What you get:

• SKILL.md — Full invocation protocol with decision type classification, cognitive bias audit (12 biases with counteractions), pre-mortem template, pre-parade template, regret minimization framework, information sufficiency audit, second and third-order consequence mapper, stakeholder impact assessment, decision journal template, fast-enough decision protocol (15-minute compressed version), emotional readiness check, and OpenClaw integration as standing decision advisor.