# Omh Decide

> [omh] Decide between options: tradeoffs, a recommendation, and a decision note you can act on. Use when the user says: strategy-brief, strategy brief, strategy memo, product strategy, strategic options, decision note, leadership strategy, next strategy.

- Skill: `rlaope/omh-decide` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add rlaope/omh-decide`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/rlaope/omh-decide/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: rlaope (https://skillmd.com/u/rlaope)
- Updated: 2026-09-09
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/rlaope/omh-decide

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# Strategy Brief

This is a Hermes-native `strategy-brief` workflow skill.

## Why This Exists

`strategy-brief` exists to keep `strategy` work explicit, evidence-backed, and inside the Hermes/executor boundary instead of relying on ad hoc chat narration.

## Do Not Use When

- The strategic question is whether an early idea's customer problem and segment are real, and no validated discovery receipt exists yet; use `product-discovery-validation`.

## Examples

Good example:

- Prompt: strategy-brief: decide whether our onboarding should prioritize solo founders or enterprise buyers.
- Expected behavior: Frame options, tradeoffs, assumptions, rejected paths, and the decision evidence needed.
- Why: The request is strategy-shaped and should not jump directly into implementation.

Bad example:

- Prompt: strategy-brief: treat casual chat or unaccepted work as if this workflow already produced verified results.
- Expected behavior: Ask a clarification question or route to a narrower workflow instead of forcing `strategy-brief`.
- Why: The request lacks the required inputs or would overclaim work that Hermes did not observe.

## Completion Checklist

- The decision, options, tradeoffs, assumptions, and rejected alternatives are named.
- Observed signals are separated from strategic inference.
- Accepted decisions and implementation follow-ups are not conflated.

## Recovery Notes

- If evidence is mostly assumption, label it and recommend a research or feedback-triage pass.
- If the decision owner is missing, keep the output as options rather than accepted strategy.

## Workflow Lane

- Current lane: **Research and company ops** (`product-docs`, `source-finder`, `web-research`, `research`, `best-practice-research`, `autoresearch-goal`, `model-optimization`, `inference-serving`, `+19 more`) - research, signals, ops, and briefings.
- If intent belongs to another lane, hand back to `oh-my-hermes` or name the adjacent workflow.
- Shared product, routing, compatibility, and evidence rules: `omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md`.

## Use When

Use when Hermes should turn goals and evidence into options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and a decision-ready brief.

    Strong routing signals: `strategy-brief`, `strategy brief`, `strategy memo`, `product strategy`, `strategic options`, `decision note`, `leadership strategy`, `next strategy`, `다음 전략`, `전략 정리`, `전략 메모`, `전략 옵션`, `의사결정`, `리더십 회의`

## Catalog Metadata

Category: `strategy`
Phase: `brief`
Hermes role: `operator`
Quality tier: `decision-gated`
Reasoning demand: `standard`

Quality bar:

- Name the decision, constraints, options, tradeoffs, and rejected alternatives.
- Tie recommendations to observed evidence or mark them as assumptions.
- Keep coding handoff disabled until strategy is accepted and code work is explicit.
- Ask whether the decision deserves a durable record - hard to reverse, surprising without its context, and carrying a real trade-off; all three or no record, a decision note in chat is enough.
- When a record is warranted, draft it per `omh-decide/references/decision-records.md` - the `docs/adr/` convention with Context, Drivers, Considered Options, Decision, Consequences with mitigations, and Related - and stop for the user's approval before any file is written.
- Never edit an accepted record: status moves Proposed to Accepted to Deprecated or Superseded, supersession is a new record pointing back at the old one, and a Rejected record is kept - it is what `decision-recall` reads later.

Handoff policy:

Keep strategy synthesis in Hermes; do not create implementation handoff until a decision is accepted and code work is explicit.

Required inputs:

- goal
- known evidence
- constraints
- decision owner

Expected outputs:

- options
- tradeoffs
- recommended direction
- decision note

Artifact expectations:

- strategy brief or decision note when a wrapper captures it

Safety rules:

- Do not treat a draft recommendation as an accepted decision.
- Keep unresolved assumptions visible.
- Separate strategy from implementation planning unless the user asks for execution.
- A drafted decision record stays a proposal: nothing is written under `docs/adr/` until the user approves the write.

## Runtime Evidence

Preferred harness for this skill: `strategy-synthesis`.

```sh
omh runtime record --skill strategy-brief --harness strategy-synthesis --status started
```

Record observed delegation results; otherwise return `not_available` or `not_observed`.
Prepared OMH routing is not execution, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.
- Treat wrapper memory/context summaries as advisory local context, not proof of opaque Hermes memory reads or changes.
Preserve workflow intent and stop conditions; verify before claiming completion.

Use Hermes-native subagent/delegation features when available: native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes.

Shared product, compatibility, topology, memory, harness, and execution rules: `omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md`. Load it when applicable; otherwise name an unavailable capability.