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title: "Capture A Decision - Air Market"
description: "Months later nobody remembers why the thing was built that way, or what else was on the table. This writes the decision down in Basic Memory with the reasoning, the options you rejected, what follows…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/bm-decide"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Capture A Decision

Skill by [Basic Machines](/@basicmachines-co)

# Capture A Decision

Write down why you chose this, while you still remember

## What this does

Months later nobody remembers why the thing was built that way, or what else was on the table. This writes the decision down in Basic Memory with the reasoning, the options you rejected, what follows from it and which work it touches. Reach for it the moment someone says "let's go with X".

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Record a choice and the reasoning behind it
- Note the alternatives you turned down
- Capture what the decision affects

## Information

**Capture A Decision at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Basic Machines](/@basicmachines-co) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 2 KB |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Repository | [basicmachines-co/basic-memory](https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/tree/92a94ad9e6e5cfca2cf4853655b3ba5ac7924b3f/plugins/claude-code/skills/bm-decide) |
| GitHub stars | 3,737 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 21, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Capture A Decision and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Capture A Decision's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 92a94ad9e6e5cfca2cf4853655b3ba5ac7924b3f |
| Content hash | 37ffd5453218c5356250d5ee521bd78f6652aefeaca22d2bb28e898fc58d015f |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/blob/92a94ad9e6e5cfca2cf4853655b3ba5ac7924b3f/plugins/claude-code/skills/bm-decide/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Capture A Decision](/security/bm-decide)

## About Capture A Decision

This captures a durable engineering decision in Basic Memory, including the rationale, the alternatives considered, the consequences, and the work the decision affects.

Use it when a real choice gets made - someone says "let's go with X", or asks for the decision to be recorded.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Capture A Decision safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Capture A Decision and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 92a94ad9e6e5, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/bm-decide.

### How do I install Capture A Decision?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/bm-decide on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/tree/92a94ad9e6e5cfca2cf4853655b3ba5ac7924b3f/plugins/claude-code/skills/bm-decide. Install from that link, not the branch.

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- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Basic Machines](/@basicmachines-co)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/bm-decide>