---
name: default-choice-audit
description: "Use this Brali skill when the user's situation matches the bounded protocol \"Audit a Default Before Letting It Decide for You\". For a setting, subscription, workflow, or template with meaningful consequences, identify the current default, compare the relevant alternatives, and make a deliberate keep-or-change decision with an easy rollback when possible. 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:default-choice-audit"
  brali-canonical-url: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/default-choice-audit/"
  brali-evidence-state: "practical"
  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/default-choice-audit/skill.json"
  agent-skills-spec: "https://agentskills.io/specification"
---

# Audit a Default Before Letting It Decide for You

## 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
For a setting, subscription, workflow, or template with meaningful consequences, identify the current default, compare the relevant alternatives, and make a deliberate keep-or-change decision with an easy rollback when possible.

## Protocol
Pick one consequential default, identify what is currently selected, state what you need from the setting or service, compare only the realistic alternatives, note switching costs and important constraints, make a keep-or-change decision, and record how to reverse it when reversal matters.

## Check-in
What default did I inspect, what requirement mattered most, why did I keep or change it, and can I reverse the decision if the new choice is worse?

## Evidence boundary
Evidence state: **practical**.
Last Brali review recorded: 2026-09-10.
This is an eligible practical record. Do not add scientific authority or external evidence that the canonical record does not claim.
Topics: Cognitive Biases

## 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/default-choice-audit/
Machine-readable record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/default-choice-audit/index.json
Skill verification record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/default-choice-audit/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/