Guru Decision

Guru Decision

Synthesize a material investment judgment and, when persistence is permitted, retain a point-in-time Decision with its evidence, assumptions, constraints, risks, invalidation conditions, uncertainty, and authored relationships. The host owns reasoning, sources, tools, and permissions.

Treat a matching natural-language request as sufficient invocation. Do not require the user to name Guru Maker, this Skill, a Decision, or a save command. Resolve short or elliptical wording from the immediate task, supplied artifacts, and targeted project memory. Ask for clarification only when the unresolved ambiguity would materially change the judgment or requested action; never infer action intent merely from a request for analysis. When no referent and no supplied artifact exists, ask immediately without scanning project files, searching memory, or reading Guru Mode.

Resolve every linked reference path relative to this loaded SKILL.md. The loaded Skill directory is authoritative: when it is under <project>/.agents/skills/, ../../shared/... reaches <project>/.agents/shared/.... Never substitute a user-global .codex path, another plugin-cache path, or skills/shared/.... Read project retrieval before inspecting any prior project memory. Retrieve that memory only through a targeted Runtime search followed by exact-ID reads; do not enumerate or open memory files directly. The Runtime is the only project-memory read interface, even when a record path or exact ID is already visible; do not use filesystem listing or reading commands as a shortcut. Start memory-using work with the Runtime query, not a recursive inventory of the workspace; scope any search for user-supplied evidence to its source location. Every record under guru-maker/ is project memory even if the prompt calls it supplied, current, or Evidence; only ordinary source files outside that hierarchy use filesystem reading. Read research framing only when gathering or refreshing evidence, Guru Mode before recording a Decision, the record contract before writing, the in-task curation contract before recording, and the Decision Graph contract for graph work. Read the Runtime contract before any gurumaker command.

Preserve earlier Decisions; use later authored updates or contradicts relationships rather than rewriting history. Re-test material prior judgment memory and follow its authored challenger chain before relying on it. Apply the retrieval reference's bounded activation pass before synthesis: exact-read an informing Decision in full, each unique reusable input in its authored uses, and only plausibly material supports Evidence for evaluation; carry forward only observations actually reused. Expose missing, stale, or inapplicable inputs. If the single most consequential reusable role remains uncovered, run the one allowed concept-gap query and exact-read its selected result; do not fan out by kind or reformulate a no-match. Ground consequential thresholds, allocations, and calculations, then challenge the judgment with validation appropriate to its claim, data, horizon, and instrument.

For every requested material judgment in an initialized project, begin with one compact target query and read the selected prior Evidence or Decision records before gathering more evidence. When prior Decisions and current Evidence could both matter, keep that first query unscoped instead of splitting it by kind. Treat “should we act?”, a consequential choice, a revision, or an outcome review as material. Do not precede the target query with rg --files, find, ls, tree, or an equivalent broad workspace inventory. Pass --workspace . to the Runtime for discovery, and inspect an ordinary non-memory source path only when the prompt or a specific result identifies it. The initial target query also satisfies the curation pre-write search only when it returns a plausibly applicable Decision. If none is returned and Guru Mode permits a new Decision write, run exactly one same-intent --kind decision --candidates --limit 6 fallback before writing; do not reformulate it, and skip it when no Decision will be written. This bounded lineage check is separate from the one concept-gap query. Treat an exposure, concentration, causal, interpretation, or risk frame as a clear Lens gap even when the answer also needs arithmetic or sizing; do not broaden that role by kind. Do not turn casual explanation or open-ended exploration into a Decision. A user-named prior Decision is the target query: use its one exact-ID JSON search instead of first running a separate broad Decision search. From that result, exact-read the named Decision and its selected current challenger, then activate the unique one-hop inputs of each Decision actually used. Do not re-search a challenger already returned by that pass. The exact-ID challenger pass also satisfies the curation pre-write search; do not run another broad topic or duplicate-check query. Use the one remaining search, when needed, only on the selected challenger to detect a later updates or contradicts record. A non-forked named lineage stays within two lineage searches; activation adds exact reads and may add its one separate concept-gap query when the consequential reusable role remains uncovered. If multiple direct challengers remain materially plausible, report the fork instead of silently dropping a branch to meet the lineage budget. After writing, rely on the standalone final knowledge check rather than exact-reading the new file merely to verify the write. A question about whether new evidence changes, weakens, or qualifies a thesis remains Research when it does not request an investment choice or explicitly revisit a stored Decision. If the user excludes an allocation or investment judgment, do not create a Decision.

In an initialized workspace, resolve Guru Mode before recording. In auto, a material judgment or outcome review may become the minimum sufficient Decision without a separate save request. In off, analysis remains conversational unless the user explicitly asks to record it. If the work suggests a reusable Wiki, Lens, Method, or Evidence improvement, report that candidate separately and route any write through the fitting Memory, Research, or Train Skill; do not write it through Decision or turn an outcome alone into a general lesson. Use only local Wiki, Lens, and Method IDs; support the Decision only with local Evidence IDs. Pack source checkouts are not memory context or graph nodes. Wiki see_also navigation and derived backlinks are not Decision relationships or Decision Graph edges. Apply the bounded kind-specific curation contract to the new Decision, never to rewrite earlier judgments; then run Decision health and one final knowledge check. Render the graph only when relationships change or the user asks, and report unresolved or skipped records. Create a non-executing brief only after explicit action intent; then read the Execution Brief contract and write the requested brief as an ordinary project Markdown artifact. It is not Guru memory, so Guru Mode does not gate that artifact. Never place an order or invent execution details.