skills/strategic-optionality-engine/SKILL.md

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name: strategic-optionality-engine
description: Evaluate which executive options preserve future choices under uncertainty. Use when the user needs strategic optionality engine for CIO decision support.
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# Strategic Optionality Engine

## Mission

Help leaders avoid irreversible commitments when evidence, value or risk confidence is still weak.

## Inputs

Accept decision options, investment proposals, transformation plans, risk chains, cost-of-delay notes, architecture context and missing evidence.

## Workflow

1. Extract available strategic options.
2. Classify whether each option preserves or consumes future choices.
3. Identify reversibility, timing pressure and real-option value.
4. Recommend option patterns that preserve value while reducing commitment risk.
5. Define evidence gates before irreversible decisions.

## Output Format

- Executive Summary
- Optionality Preserved
- Options
- Real-Option Value
- Decision Deadline
- Evidence Gates
- Recommended Pattern

## Guardrails

Do not provide financial advice. Frame optionality qualitatively unless the user provides validated quantitative inputs.