Tired brains make bad decisions — impulsive, pessimistic, or whatever's easiest — and then live with them. The best protocol when depleted is usually don't decide yet. This first checks whether the decision can wait; if it genuinely can't, it walks you to a safe-enough choice with minimal thinking: default to the reversible option, dodge the known tired-brain traps, and apply a simple rule rather than deep analysis you can't do right now.
Decision When Tired is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/decision-when-tired/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when asked I'm too tired to decide, help me choose I'm exhausted, I can't think straight right now, or should I even decide this now. Produces a first check on whether this decision can simply wait until you're rested, and if not, a minimal-effort path to a safe-enough choice (default to reversible, avoid the tired-brain traps, use a simple rule) — because decisions made depleted are predictably worse, and the best move is often not to make them now.
The Decision When Tired Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 178,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/decision-when-tired curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/decision-when-tired/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/decision-when-tired/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/decision-when-tired/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/decision-when-tired/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\decision-when-tired\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/decision-when-tired/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Decision When Tired is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{decision-when-tired-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {Decision When Tired [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/decision-when-tired/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-07 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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