# Simplify Decisions Recovery

> Simplify decisions, comparisons, pricing, recommendation flows, defaults, framing, choice architecture, error prevention, validation, undo, confirmation, and recovery across interfaces, presentations, PDFs, documents, tables, dashboards, forms, and decision-support visuals. Use when Codex needs to reduce choice overload, make tradeoffs clearer, prevent predictable mistakes, or help users recover safely.

- Skill: `amaledtuning/simplify-decisions-recovery` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add amaledtuning/simplify-decisions-recovery`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/amaledtuning/simplify-decisions-recovery/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: amaledtuning (https://skillmd.com/u/amaledtuning)
- Updated: 2026-09-21
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/amaledtuning/simplify-decisions-recovery

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# Simplify Decisions Recovery

Use this skill when the design problem is choosing, comparing, committing, preventing mistakes, or recovering after something goes wrong. It applies to pricing pages, comparison tables, recommendation flows, forms, dashboards, checkout, settings, PDF one-pagers, slide decks, reports, and decision-support visuals.

## Workflow

1. Identify the decision or failure point: choose, compare, submit, delete, pay, configure, recover, or undo.
2. Read `references/principles.md` when the task involves too many options, unclear tradeoffs, recommendations, defaults, pricing, validation, error messages, confirmation, undo, or recovery.
3. Diagnose overload and risk: too many choices, weak defaults, hidden consequences, poor comparison criteria, vague errors, irreversible actions, or stressful context.
4. Simplify with meaningful grouping, defaults, recommendations, comparison criteria, inline validation, safe recovery, and honest framing.
5. Pair with execution skills as needed: `frontend-design`, `react`, `presentations`, `documents`, `spreadsheets`, `figma`, or `imagegen`.

## Output Expectations

Return a concrete choice and recovery model: fewer options or clearer groups, recommended defaults, comparison criteria, error prevention, recovery path, and confirmation rules for high-consequence actions.

## Boundaries

Do not use this skill for general trust-building unless a choice or error point is central. Use `build-motivation-trust` for credibility and engagement, and `reduce-cognitive-load` for broad complexity reduction outside decision/recovery moments.