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Protect standards
A hard stop makes principles operational. It prevents an attractive score from hiding an unacceptable condition.
Decision infrastructure / Browser-local workspace
Make every yes earn its place.
Review an opportunity against principles, strategy, evidence, capacity, opportunity cost, and reversibility before attention becomes obligation.
Generate a recommendation, preserve dissent, define the conditions for a responsible yes, and produce language for a clear no.
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01 / Context
Name the commitment.
02 / Fit
Assess the whole cost.
Rate each criterion from 0 to 4. The record preserves the judgment behind the score.
Principle alignment
Does this fit the standards and commitments you want to be known for?
Weight 1.5
2 / 4 · Unclear
Strategic relevance
Will this still matter after the immediate opportunity is gone?
Weight 1.25
2 / 4 · Unclear
Meaningful value
Is the likely value substantial for the organisation, its users, or the public?
Weight 1.15
2 / 4 · Unclear
Evidence quality
Are the need, upside, counterpart, and assumptions supported?
Weight 1
2 / 4 · Unclear
Real capacity
Can the work receive enough time, skill, attention, and ownership?
Weight 1.35
2 / 4 · Unclear
Opportunity cost
Can you accept this without weakening a more important commitment?
Weight 1.2
2 / 4 · Unclear
Reversibility
Can you test, limit, renegotiate, or exit if assumptions change?
Weight 0.8
2 / 4 · Unclear
03 / Hard stops
Some conditions override the score.
04 / Conditions and dissent
Record what would change the decision.
REFUSAL AS STEWARDSHIP
A decision should protect the future.
02
Protect capacity
A commitment includes the work it displaces. Capacity and opportunity cost belong inside the decision, not after it.
03
Preserve memory
A decision record keeps the evidence, dissent, conditions, and review date available when the opportunity returns.