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# Decisions

> What you've decided, so Forepost stops re-recommending things you've already said no to.

A senior chief of staff doesn't forget the decisions you've made. If you said in May *"we're not hiring until Q3"*, you don't want June's brief recommending the hire again unless something changed.

**Decisions** is the surface Forepost uses to remember.

## Two ways a decision gets recorded

### 1. Dismiss-with-reason

When you dismiss any action in the Daily Brief, you can optionally add a reason. Click **Dismiss**, type one line ("we're deferring all hires until Q3"), click **Dismiss with reason**. The reason is captured on the action AND seeded as a decision row so future briefs see it.

A vanilla dismissal — without a reason — doesn't create a decision. It's just a "not now" with no rationale to remember.

### 2. Manual decisions

Click **Decisions** in the sidebar (under *Memory*). The page lists every active decision with the date you decided and an optional revisit date. The **New decision** card at the top accepts free text plus an optional revisit date — click **Add decision** and it joins the list.

The API is also available directly:

```bash theme={null}
POST   /decisions                # create — body { text, revisitAt? }
GET    /decisions                # list (active by default; ?includeArchived=1 for full history)
PATCH  /decisions/:id            # update text / revisitAt / archived
DELETE /decisions/:id            # permanently delete
```

## How decisions feed the brief

Each Daily Brief gets an `ACTIVE DECISIONS` block listing the most recent 12 active (non-archived) decisions:

```
ACTIVE DECISIONS (memory the leader has set):
• Decided not to: "Hire one more agent". Reason: deferring all hires until Q3 (decided 14d ago)
• Slack auto-replies turned off for billing tier — we lose context (decided 4d ago)
• Pushing AI deflection to 70% before the next hire conversation (decided 21d ago · DUE FOR REVISIT)
```

The brief is explicitly told to:

* Respect prior decisions; don't re-recommend something the leader has already said no to.
* Make exceptions when the underlying numbers have moved meaningfully since the decision was made — and say so in plain prose ("Your decision to defer the hire was at 12 weeks of runway; you're now at 6").
* Surface decisions whose `revisitAt` date has passed: name them, ask whether conditions have changed. Never argue with a decision.

## Revisit dates

Each decision can carry a `revisitAt` timestamp. When that date passes, the brief tags the decision **DUE FOR REVISIT** and the model is told to bring it up. Use this for "we're deferring until Q3" — set revisit\_at to early Q3, and the brief surfaces it on its own.

Without a revisit date, decisions stay active indefinitely until you archive them.

## Archiving

Active decisions hang around in the brief's context block. When a decision is no longer relevant, click **Archive** on the row — it disappears from the active list and stops feeding the brief prompt, but stays in the database so you can see what was decided historically. Toggle **Show archived** in the page header to view (and **Restore** or permanently **Delete**) archived decisions.

The API equivalent:

```bash theme={null}
PATCH /decisions/:id  { "archived": true }
```

## What decisions aren't

* **Not goals.** Goals are *targets* — "get CSAT to 90%." Decisions are *non-goals* — "we're not doing X right now." The brief already handles targets via the Watchlist's per-metric target fields.
* **Not preferences.** Voice rules, tone, brief cadence — those live in Settings and the system prompt. Decisions are situational calls that should expire as the situation changes.
* **Not a CRM.** Linear/email drafts/Slack drafts are where you do work. Decisions is just what you've ruled out.

## Privacy

Decisions live in your workspace's D1 scope. The text is fed into the brief's system prompt at generation time and to Ask Forepost's tools when relevant. Nothing leaves Forepost; nothing is logged externally.