daytb – do as you think best

A one-shot grant of decision latitude. The user has read the question and is handing it back rather than answering it: pick the option you would have recommended, act on it, and say what you picked.

When this fires

The bare or slashed keyword daytb.
The phrases it stands in for: “do as you think best”, “do as you see fit”, “do whatever you think is best”, “your call”, “you decide”, “up to you”, “I trust your judgment here”.
A reply that answers a posed decision by declining to choose – “either is fine”, “whichever you prefer” – which is the same grant in different words.

What it grants

Latitude over the decision in front of you, and the ones that follow from it while the same task runs.

It does not silence you. The user is present, so the point is to stop asking rather than to stop reporting: a decision made under daytb still gets stated, in the past tense, with the one reason that settled it. That is what keeps countermanding cheap.

What it does not grant

Not the rest of the session. daytb expires with the task it was given for. A later, unrelated decision is a fresh question. For a standing session-wide grant, that is away.
Not destructive or irreversible actions. A merge, a force-push, a deletion, anything outward-facing still needs its own explicit authorization. Merge authority specifically is mwc’s grant, not this one.
Not the safety rules. Everything that required confirmation before still does.
Not a licence to guess when you genuinely cannot judge. If proceeding either way would be unsafe, or the options differ on a fact only the user holds, say so plainly and ask the narrower question. That is rare – treat it as the exception it is, not an escape hatch.

Procedure

Name the decision(s) the grant covers. Usually the one just posed. If several were queued behind it, they are covered too unless answering one moots the rest.
Choose the option you would have recommended. Apply the same criteria you would have written into a 🧭 RECOMMENDATION box. If you had already stated a recommendation, take it – handing the decision back is agreement to it, not an invitation to reopen it.
Act.
Report in the past tense: what you chose, and the single reason that decided it. One or two sentences. Name anything you deliberately did not do, so a silent omission does not read as an oversight.
Do not re-ask. A follow-up question about the same decision spends the round trip the grant existed to save.

Relationship to other skills

away – the session-scoped sibling, and the one most easily confused with this. away presumes the user is gone: it suppresses questions for the rest of the session, keeps a decision log, and is revoked by back. daytb presumes the user is here and simply declining to adjudicate one thing, so it carries no session state and needs no counterpart. Reading daytb as away would silently suspend clarifying questions long after the user expected them back.
back – revokes away. Nothing revokes daytb, because it expires on its own.
mwc – the grant that does extend to merging. daytb deliberately stops short of it.
prompt-me / prompt-me-all – the opposite direction: surface the questions rather than resolve them.
dmmhyh – built on this skill’s procedure for resolving the triggering item, but fires when the user is correcting a pattern of over-asking rather than just handing back one decision. It adds a standing in-session recalibration and a durable memory write that daytb alone doesn’t do – reach for dmmhyh instead of daytb when the user’s complaint is about asking too much in general, not this one question.

Anti-patterns

Treating it as session-wide, and quietly dropping clarifying questions for unrelated later work – that is away, and the user did not ask for it.
Reading it as authorization to merge, delete, or publish.
Choosing silently, so the user learns what was decided only by noticing the result later.
Asking a confirming question anyway – “I’ll do X, unless you’d rather Y?” is the grant declined, not honoured.
Reopening a recommendation you had already made, instead of simply taking it.