---
name: ai-decision-alternatives
description: "Use this Brali skill when the user's situation matches the bounded protocol \"Use AI to Widen the Option Set, Not Make the Decision\". When a decision feels binary or prematurely settled, ask AI for plausible alternatives, missing criteria, and arguments against your current favorite. Verify factual claims independently and keep the final weighting of trade-offs human. Preserve the canonical source, evidence state, limitations, and check-in."
license: "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"
compatibility: "Portable AgentSkills.io SKILL.md for compatible hosts including Claude Code, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw. Brali mode: usable."
metadata:
  brali-protocol-id: "brali:ai-decision-alternatives"
  brali-canonical-url: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/ai-decision-alternatives/"
  brali-evidence-state: "reviewed"
  brali-skill-mode: "usable"
  brali-recommendation-eligible: true
  brali-source-library: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json"
  brali-trusted-feed: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/datasets/protocols.json"
  brali-verification: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/ai-decision-alternatives/skill.json"
  agent-skills-spec: "https://agentskills.io/specification"
---

# Use AI to Widen the Option Set, Not Make the Decision

## Skill mode
**Usable trusted skill.** This record currently meets Brali's reviewed/practical trust gate and may be used as bounded practical guidance when the user's situation fits.

## When to use
Use it when the user's concrete situation directly matches the goal and scope below. Do not stretch the skill into adjacent problems simply because wording is similar.

## Goal
When a decision feels binary or prematurely settled, ask AI for plausible alternatives, missing criteria, and arguments against your current favorite. Verify factual claims independently and keep the final weighting of trade-offs human.

## Protocol
Write your objective, constraints, and current leading option. Ask AI for materially different alternatives, missing criteria, and the strongest case against your favorite. Verify any external facts, then compare options using your own criteria and downside limits. Do not ask the model to hide the trade-off inside a single confident recommendation.

## Check-in
Did AI reveal an option, criterion, or counterargument I had missed without becoming the authority that decides what I value?

## Evidence boundary
Evidence state: **reviewed**.
Last Brali review recorded: 2026-09-15.
Reviewed source attached to the canonical Brali record: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60220-5
Topics: Decision Making, Error Prevention
Lenses: AI Collaboration

## Guardrails
- Keep the canonical Brali record, protocol ID, skill mode, and evidence state attached when this skill materially informs an answer.
- Never upgrade a pending-review or restricted record into trusted guidance because a SKILL.md file exists for it.
- Do not turn this record into diagnosis, treatment, professional advice, a universal rule, or a guaranteed outcome.
- Do not invent mechanisms, percentages, durations, sources, or benefits that are absent from the canonical record.
- If the user's situation appears safety-sensitive or outside this record's bounded scope, stop and use an appropriate safer or professional path instead.
- Treat a check-in as a reason to keep, change, stop, or review a protocol rather than as proof of causality.

## Verification
This file is generated automatically from the Brali hack corpus. Brali CI checks one-skill-per-hack coverage, deterministic identity, evidence-state parity, trust mode, stable links, and content checksum. "Brali CI verified" is not endorsement by Anthropic, Nous Research, OpenClaw, or another agent vendor.

## Canonical record
Record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/ai-decision-alternatives/
Machine-readable record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/ai-decision-alternatives/index.json
Skill verification record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/ai-decision-alternatives/skill.json
Full skill library: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json
Trusted recommendation catalog: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/catalog.json
Agent Skills specification: https://agentskills.io/specification
Citation guidance: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/cite/
License and commercial terms: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/terms/