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Turn this meeting into a decision record

After a meeting where something important was settled and will be questioned later.

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Write a decision record from the material below.

Structure:
1. **Decision**: one sentence, active voice, stating what we will do.
2. **Date and who decided.**
3. **Context**: the situation that forced a choice, in a short paragraph.
4. **Options considered**, including the ones rejected, with the reason each was rejected. This is the part future readers need most.
5. **Consequences**: what this commits us to, what it makes harder, what we accepted as a cost.
6. **What would make us revisit this**, as a specific trigger rather than "if things change".

Write it so someone joining in a year understands why, without having been in the room. Mark anything I have not given you as **[not recorded]**.

Material:

Making it yours

  • Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
  • Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
  • If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.

Decisions and actions. Pulling what was settled and who owes what out of a set of notes, and catching what was not.

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