# Agent Build Decide

> Synthesize one Agentic Build change packet into a short decision surface for Brian and recommend a call. Brian decides — this verb does NOT decide, merge, or edit the packet's work. Use when explicitly asked to run agent-build-decide, or to turn a reviewed packet into Brian's decision surface. NOT the independent critique (that's agent-build-review).

- Skill: `brianbolze/agent-build-decide` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add brianbolze/agent-build-decide`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/brianbolze/agent-build-decide/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: brianbolze (https://skillmd.com/u/brianbolze)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/brianbolze/agent-build-decide

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## Purpose

Turn one change packet's current state into a **decision surface** for Brian: the short,
plain-English digest he decides from. You synthesize and recommend; **Brian decides.**

This is the lead's compression step. The review files are detailed *for the lead*; the
decision surface is short *for Brian*. You do not record the decision, merge anything, or
edit the packet's work. One packet per run.

## Required context

Read before writing — these carry the format and the rules; don't restate them:

- [`2026-06-21-lead-context.md`](../../../experiments/01-agentic-build/2026-06-21-lead-context.md) — the **Decision Surface** section (what the surface includes and how short it is) plus the lead's risk posture and hard lines.
- The packet's own docs — whatever exists: `proposal.md`, any `proposal-review.md` /
  `packet-review.md`, `frame.md`, `implementation-notes.md`.
- For the recommendation vocabulary: the **Decision Rules** in [`2026-06-21-proposal.md`](../../../experiments/01-agentic-build/2026-06-21-proposal.md).

## Task

1. Read the packet's docs and the context above.
2. Synthesize the packet's current state into a decision surface, in the format the
   lead-context **Decision Surface** section defines — no more than it asks for.
3. State the **decision needed** for the packet's current stage, and end with a
   **recommendation** in the decision vocabulary (the **Decision Rules** named in
   Required Context) — clearly a recommendation; Brian decides.
4. Report checks honestly. If no independent review exists in the packet, say so on the
   surface — don't let an unreviewed packet look ready. Absence isn't proof.
5. Out-of-scope thing worth remembering? Log an observation per
   [`learning/AGENTS.md`](../../../experiments/01-agentic-build/learning/AGENTS.md) —
   capture only, never a fix.
6. Stop. Don't decide, don't merge, don't edit the packet's work.

## Output

- Write the surface to `decision-surface.md` in the packet.
- Also return it inline in your final response (it's already short).

## Final response

End with:

- decision-surface path
- the surface itself
- your recommendation — marked as a recommendation; Brian decides
- `No decision was made; nothing was merged or edited.`