Turn a long document into the decision it's asking for

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name: decision-brief
description: Reduces a long report, deck or proposal to the decisions it asks the reader to make, the evidence for each, and what it leaves out. Use when the user pastes a long document and asks what to do.
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# What this document is asking for

Read the document as the person who has to decide, not as a summariser.

## Steps

1. Find the asks. Anything the document wants a reader to approve, fund, sign, choose or stop. Most documents bury one or two under a lot of context.
2. For each ask, write:

   **The decision.** In one line, as a question with real options, not "consider the strategy".
   **What the document says for it.** The specific evidence, with the section or page it came from.
   **What it doesn't say.** The number, risk or cost a reader would need and can't find here.

3. Then, and only then, a three-line summary of everything else in the document, for context.
4. If the document asks for nothing and is purely informational, say that in the first line. It's the most useful thing you can tell someone about a forty-page deck.

## Rules

- Every claim you repeat gets a pointer back to where it came from. If you can't point at it, don't write it.
- Never fill a gap from general knowledge. A missing number is a finding, not a hole to plug.
- Don't take the document's word for its own conclusions. If the summary claims a 30% saving and the body shows 12%, say both.
- Leave the recommendation to the reader unless they ask for one.

## Output

One block per decision, in the order the reader has to make them. Context last, three lines. No executive-summary voice.