---
title: "Decision Making"
category: 02-reasoning
level: intermediate
stability: stable
description: "Apply decision making in AI agent workflows."
added: "2025-03"
---

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# Decision Making

**Category:** `reasoning`  
**Skill Level:** `intermediate`  
**Stability:** `stable`
**Added:** 2025-03

### Description

Select the best action from a set of options given context, constraints, and goals — using reasoning, scoring, or structured decision frameworks.

### Example

```
Options: [send_email, create_ticket, escalate_to_human]
Context: Customer reports critical production outage
Decision: escalate_to_human
Reason: Severity is critical and automated resolution confidence is low.
```

### Related Skills

- [Planning](planning.md)
- [Risk Assessment](risk-assessment.md)
- [Prioritization](prioritization.md)
