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Set up the team decision log that ends relitigation — the one-line-per-decision format (what, why, who, when, reopening rule), the capture moments wired into existing rituals, and the lookup habit that makes it pay. Use when asked set up a decision log, we keep re-deciding the same things, where do decisions get recorded, or new people keep asking why we do X. Produces the log format, the capture wiring, the reopening rule, and the retrieval habits.

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# Decision Log Setup Skill

Teams re-decide because decisions evaporate: made in a meeting, mentioned in a thread, remembered differently by everyone, and relitigated the moment someone new (or someone persistent) asks "wait, why do we…?" The decision log is the cheapest institutional memory there is — one line per decision (what, why, who, when, and the reopening rule) — but logs fail as shelf-ware unless *capture is wired into existing moments* (the meeting's last five minutes, the thread's landing) and *retrieval becomes reflex* ("checked the log?" as the first response to why-questions).

## What This Skill Produces

- **The format** — the five-field line, with the two-sentence-why discipline and the option-we-rejected field that does the anti-relitigation work
- **The capture wiring** — the existing moments ([decision-meeting-format](../decision-meeting-format/SKILL.md) closes, [thread-to-decision](../thread-to-decision/SKILL.md) landings, 1:1 calls) that now end with a log line
- **The reopening rule** — what reopens a decision (new information) and what doesn't (new mood, new people)
- **The retrieval habits** — the log-first reflex, the onboarding tour, the link-not-relitigate response

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