| name | review-past-decisions |
| description | Use before drafting, revising, or executing a plan when prior decisions, snapshots, specs, issue comments, or other project history may constrain the new plan; review past decisions and carry forward accepted constraints, rejected approaches, open questions, and plan implications. |
Review Past Decisions
Overview
Review prior decision evidence before proposing a new plan. Use this skill when the next plan may be shaped by earlier approvals, rejected approaches, snapshot history, specs, issue comments, or local project notes.
Core principle: plans should carry forward known decisions instead of rediscovering or contradicting them.
Decision Review Flow
- Name the current planning question in one sentence.
- Inspect relevant local evidence before planning:
- normal-install workflow records under
~/.omniskills/workflows/
- project-local
.omniskills/workflows/ records only when the workflow command used --dir
- accepted specs, prior plans, docs, issue notes, or review comments in the workspace
- Extract only decisions that can affect the new plan.
- Mark stale, missing, or conflicting evidence instead of guessing.
- Use the carry-forward to shape the new plan.
Required Output
Before presenting the new plan, write a short decision carry-forward:
Decision carry-forward:
- Preserve:
- Active constraints:
- Avoid:
- Needs confirmation:
- Plan implications:
If no relevant evidence exists, write: No relevant prior decision evidence found. Then continue with the current request and context.
Guardrails
- Do not invent past decisions.
- Do not treat stale evidence as binding without saying it may be stale.
- Do not review unrelated history just because it exists.
- Do not turn this into a long research report; keep the carry-forward short and decision-focused.
- If a prior decision conflicts with the user's newest request, say so and ask for confirmation before relying on the older decision.