You know the moment. You're standing in the kitchen, hand hovering between two options, and somehow this becomes the hardest decision of your day. Pizza or sushi. Chess or poker. Homework or a nap. None of it matters — and yet you'll burn two full minutes negotiating with yourself over it.
That's the exact kind of friction the new Option Chooser skill was built to erase.
What it does
Say it out loud, or type it into your LivinGrimoire instance, in plain language:
"What should I eat pizza or sushi?"
"What should I drink water or juice or soda?"
"What should I play chess or checkers or poker?"
The skill listens, pulls out the verb, pulls out every option you listed — two, three, ten, however many you throw at it — and fires back a single, decisive answer:
eat sushi
No follow-up questions. No "well it depends." No spiral. Just a decision, delivered in the time it takes to finish your sentence.
The video game test case
This is where it earns its keep the hardest. You've got a full library, no idea what you're in the mood for, and every option sounds fine and none of them sound right. Instead of scrolling your Steam list for ten minutes:
"What should I play Elden Ring or Hollow Knight or Stardew Valley or Hades?"
play Hollow Knight
Done. The backlog paralysis is gone before it even started. Same trick works for "what should I play ranked or unranked or customs" — any list, any length, one clean pick, every option separated by a plain "or."
Why this matters
Every skill in the LivinGrimoire portfolio exists to shave friction off of something. Option Chooser targets a specific, universal kind of friction: decision fatigue on things that genuinely don't deserve your mental bandwidth.
Big decisions deserve deliberation. What to eat, or what to play tonight, does not. And yet the brain treats them with the same weight if you let it. Outsourcing the trivial ones — reliably, instantly, and on your own hardware — means you spend your actual willpower where it counts.
Built the LivinGrimoire way
This isn't a cloud API call routed through someone else's servers, guessing at your intent with a language model. It's a deterministic, offline skill — same philosophy as the rest of the framework: private, local, uncensorable, and yours. It fires exactly when it should, stays out of the way when it shouldn't, and never phones home.
It plugs directly into the standard Skill architecture — drop it in the DLC folder, and it's live. No registration, no config, no ceremony.
Flexible by design
The verb slot isn't hardcoded. Eat, play, drink, do, buy, watch — if it fits the pattern "what should I verb option or option or ...", the skill handles it. Multi-word options like "a laptop" or "a tablet" work fine too, as long as each option is separated by the word "or" — all parsed correctly, all resolved to one clean answer.
Ask it something with fewer than two options, or something that doesn't match the pattern at all, and it simply stays silent — no false positives, no interference with your other skills.
The bigger picture
This is a small skill. That's the point. LivinGrimoire isn't just for grand architectural set pieces — bicameral minds, sleep consolidation, self-modifying skill forges. It's also for the fifteen seconds you'd otherwise lose standing in front of the fridge, or the ten minutes you'd lose scrolling your game library. Small, sharp utilities, stacked on top of a framework that respects your time and your data, are what make an AI feel less like a chatbot and more like an actual extension of your day.
Pizza or sushi. Elden Ring or Hollow Knight. Stop asking yourself. Ask your Grimoire.
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