In a 1772 letter to Joseph Priestley, Franklin laid out why hard decisions feel impossible: the reasons for and against are never "present to the mind at the same time" — whichever set you thought about most recently feels decisive. His fix, which he called moral or prudential algebra, is a ledger kept over days, with weights, where reasons of equal weight are struck out in pairs until one column visibly outweighs. This skill runs the full method — not the flattened pros-and-cons list it degenerated into.
Franklin Decision Ledger 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/franklin-decision-ledger/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when weighing job offers, relocations, build-vs-buy, take-the-promotion, shut-it-down decisions, or any 'I keep going back and forth'. Produces a completed decision ledger with a leaning, its strongest counter, and a revisit date.
The Franklin Decision Ledger 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 174,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/franklin-decision-ledger curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/franklin-decision-ledger/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/franklin-decision-ledger/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/franklin-decision-ledger/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/franklin-decision-ledger/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\franklin-decision-ledger\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/franklin-decision-ledger/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. Franklin Decision Ledger 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{franklin-decision-ledger-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {Franklin Decision Ledger [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/franklin-decision-ledger/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-02 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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