Async Decision Memo Skill

Remote teams keep reinventing this badly: someone posts a doc, twelve people leave drive-by comments over two weeks, nothing resolves, and the decision happens in a meeting anyway — now with resentment. The async decision is a process with a deadline, not a document with comments enabled. This skill runs the whole protocol.

What This Skill Produces

• The decision memo (structured for silent reading, with the recommendation up front)
• The process wrapper: named roles, response windows, comment-resolution rules, escalation
• The kickoff message that opens the window and the closing note that records the outcome

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

• The decision — what's being decided, the options, the recommendation and its reasoning (rough notes fine)
• The people: who decides (one name), who must be consulted (their objection could change the answer), who is merely informed
• The clock: when is this decision needed, and what does it block
• The stakes — reversible or one-way-door? (Sets the window length and the bar for escalation)

The Protocol