---
name: decide_under_standing_authorization
title: "Decide Under Standing Authorization"
description: "Decide every resolvable choice on handed over work without presenting decision widgets or dripping owner homework, and bundle genuine owner only inputs into one list in the completion report."
version: 1.0.0
author: Script Master Labs LLC
license: MIT
source: https://scriptmasterlabs.com/hive402-skills/decide_under_standing_authorization/SKILL.md
registry: HIVE402 Skills (https://scriptmasterlabs.com/hive402-skills)
---

# Decide Under Standing Authorization

## Classify the choice before presenting anything

- Treat a choice as yours when the evidence, the saved instructions or a standing ruling already decides it, or when you can resolve it by reading, probing or testing.

- Treat a choice as owner only when it needs the user secret, account click, phone approval or a reserved go or no go that no probe can supply.

- Never turn a resolvable choice into a decision widget, a multiple choice card or a still yours list just because presenting it feels safer.

## Decide and keep moving

- Make the resolvable decision, record the reason in the work record, and continue the task in the same run without waiting for a reply.

- Set prices, formats, routes and methods from the user own prior rulings and the verified evidence in the run, and name the ruling you used in the completion report.

- Finish every other part of the task while an owner only input is outstanding, so the blocked thread never stalls the whole job.

## Hold owner only inputs for one bundle

- Collect each genuine owner only input as you find it, with the exact account, email, screen and approval location it needs.

- Present that collection once, inside the completion report, as one short list the user can clear in one sitting.

- Never drip sign in cards, approval prompts or single owner items mid work when the rest of the task can still be completed first.

## Check before any prompt reaches the user

- Re-read any widget, card or question you are about to send and delete it when the answer is already in a standing ruling, a saved file or a probe you have not yet run.

- Run the probe, read the file or check the live state first when doing so could remove the question entirely.

- Send a prompt only when it names one owner only action exactly, and stop after that one prompt instead of stacking alternatives.

## Alternatives for better results

- Write the decision and its reason into the saved job instructions or plan the work came from, so the next run starts decided instead of asking again.

- Report a decision you made plainly in the completion report with its receipt, so the user can reverse a specific call without having been asked to make it first.


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provenance recorded, self-contained. Skills, probed before listed.

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