Freeze
When to use
Use this skill for holding a strategic decision for review when you need to challenge and record a leadership decision. The expected result is a leadership decision record with next steps.
Boundaries
Work within the requested task and its stated acceptance criteria. Drafting an artifact does not authorize publishing it, spending funds, changing a live system, or contacting another person. Identify any such action separately before taking it.
Inputs
Inspect the proposal, decision owner, assumptions, dissent, and time horizon. Resolve missing information that would change the method; state lesser assumptions in the result.
Method
- Diagnose. Collect finance, product, people, customer, legal, and technical implications before advocating a choice.
- Decide. Ask for the evidence that would reverse the choice before committing.
- Produce. Build a leadership decision record with next steps from the inspected material; keep assumptions distinguishable from observed facts.
Decision rules
- Make disagreements visible. Identify whose authority is required and what each function must provide for execution.
- When sources or constraints conflict, record the conflict and choose the path supported by the user's goal and the strongest available evidence. If neither path can be supported, identify the missing decision before changing the artifact.
Domain rules
- Represent competing functional perspectives before reaching a leadership decision.
- Record dissent, uncertainty, and a measurable follow-up rather than implying consensus.
Verification
Confirm the decision record includes owner and review date. Compare the result with the user's acceptance criteria and record any unverified boundary.
Deliver a decision record with options considered, unresolved tensions, accountable executive, and next review trigger.
Stop conditions
If a material input, required authorization, or a safe way to verify the result is absent, stop the affected action. Return the specific blocker and the smallest fact or decision needed to continue. Do not report an unrun check as passed.
Output
Provide a leadership decision record with next steps. Include the decisive evidence and actual verification result. Name any artifact location and unresolved issue that affects its use.