Decision filter

Cuts a stuck decision down to four things: what you're actually deciding, the three criteria that matter, the option those criteria pick, and one sentence of reasoning.

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TextProductivity #clarity #decision making #prioritization

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Anthropic · Claude Opus 5 PLPromptByte Library Version 1

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Your situation{{decision_situation}}

The choice you're stuck on, the options in play, and any constraint that genuinely limits you. Include what you've already ruled out.

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**The decision** Whether to spend the next quarter rewriting the billing service, or ship the three customer-facing features already committed for the same quarter — given that the team cannot credibly do both and the rewrite has no external deadline. **The three criteria that matter** 1. Reversibility — which choice is cheaper to undo in six months if it turns out wrong 2. Compounding cost — whether delay makes the work meaningfully harder or only later 3. Credibility with the people who were promised something **The choice** Ship the three committed features; schedule the billing…
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Built for the decision you've already thought about too much. The refusal to list alternatives or hedge is the whole point — it forces a single named choice instead of another balanced comparison you'll re-read tomorrow.

The restatement line is the most useful output, and often the one that changes your mind. If the model restates your decision as something subtly different from what you thought you were deciding, that gap is the real finding; correct it and run again.

Use it on genuinely two-sided choices with real stakes but no clean answer: which of two offers, whether to kill a project, which of two features ships first. It is not a substitute for advice on anything medical, legal or financial — the format sounds confident regardless of how thin the input is, so treat the output as a structured second opinion, not a verdict.

A good habit: write your own three criteria before you run it, then compare. Disagreement about the criteria matters more than disagreement about the pick.

Attribution: adapted from https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts by f (contributed by nokamiai), licensed CC0-1.0. Source file: https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts/blob/main/prompts.csv

Decision filter

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Create a virtual-event run of show with fallback cues

Categorize an expense list with an auditable review queue

Build a packing checklist around a supplied trip plan

Write an asynchronous client handoff for the next team

Resolve a team prioritization deadlock with a fair process

Facilitate a MoSCoW scope-prioritization workshop

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Create a virtual-event run of show with fallback cues

Categorize an expense list with an auditable review queue

Build a packing checklist around a supplied trip plan

Write an asynchronous client handoff for the next team

Resolve a team prioritization deadlock with a fair process

Facilitate a MoSCoW scope-prioritization workshop

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