Sixteen Decisions Review
Gathers sixteen key decisions from the user before a risky plan is made.
Install
npx skills add davidondrej/skills --skill 4x4 -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- davidondrej/skills4.2k
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Lightabout 541 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Pull 16 fast decisions out of the user with 4 sets of 4 open questions, then present an implementation plan. Only for risky changes, large product decisions, or large refactors. Run when the user types /4x4. Agents may suggest it in one line but never start it on their own.
4x4
Get the user's judgment, taste, and decisions in 4 quick rounds. 16 open questions. A full run should take them 2, 3 minutes.
The 4 sets
These are defaults. Adapt their names and focus to pull the most judgment and taste out of the user for this topic.
- Product, what it does, who it's for, UI/UX, scope.
- Software design, architecture, data, boundaries, what to reuse or delete.
- Practical, execution order, rollout, what ships first.
- Edge cases, the 4 most likely ways this breaks or surprises users. Each question asks how to handle one.
Workflow
- Load context fast. Use what's already in the thread. Skim only the files and docs that matter (scopes, ADRs, the diff). No research, no subagents.
- Pick the order. Start with the set whose answers most change the others.
- Pick 4 questions per set. Choose the 4 decisions with the biggest impact that only the user can make. Never ask what the code, docs, or common sense already answer. Skip anything already decided.
- Show one set at a time. Never preview or list the other sets. Stop and wait. Show the next set only after the user answers.
- Adapt. Rewrite later sets based on earlier answers.
- Present the plan. After set 4, give plain step-by-step instructions to execute the work properly, built from the user's answers. Chat only. Then stop. Don't build or write docs until the user says go.
Message format
## Set 2/4 · Software design
1. Where should X live?
2. ...
3. ...
4. ...
Nothing else. No intro, no outro.
