Department: Decisions

Charter

Run structured reasoning on any decision. The dialectic flow is:

Adam frames the question
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Steelman (opus) ── builds the strongest case for each option
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Devils-Advocate (opus) ── attacks the leading option with the strongest counter-arguments
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Synthesizer (opus) ── reconciles, recommends, writes memo
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Wiki/Decisions/{slug}.md  +  Memos/{slug}.md  +  Wiki/Log.md

Scope

• In: any decision regardless of size or domain.
• Out: routine ops where there's no real tradeoff.

Agents

• Steelman — opus.
• Devils-Advocate — opus.
• Synthesizer — opus.

Skills

• decision-memo — runs the full dialectic, produces a memo.
• dialectic-cycle — single-pass orchestration over the three agents.

Output

• Memo lives at Departments/Decisions/Memos/{date}-{slug}.md.
• Mirror wiki node at Wiki/Decisions/{slug}.md for graph visibility.
• Log entry appended to Wiki/Log.md.

Grounding via NotebookLM libraries (optional)

decision-memo and dialectic-cycle accept an optional libraries: [...] input — a list of Wiki/Libraries/{slug} slugs. When provided, each dialectic phase MAY query the libraries via notebooklm-query to ground its reasoning in your curated content corpus (e.g., a Naval library, a competitive-research library, your full consumption library).

• Steelman queries to find supporting precedent for each option.
• Devils-Advocate queries to find failure modes and counter-precedent.
• Synthesizer queries (if needed) to resolve tensions.

Budget is capped at 3 live queries per cycle. For deeper grounding, run notebooklm-deep-research BEFORE the dialectic and pass the research note as an additional context_files entry.

Linked context

• Context/MI — for personal decisions.
• Context/Work + Context/Priorities — for business decisions.
• Wiki/Libraries/ — optional NotebookLM-backed grounding (see Integrations/NotebookLM).