Compare alternatives against explicit criteria, expose trade-offs, and finish with one recommendation.
The Option Comparison Agent Skill turns an open-ended choice into a transparent decision. It establishes criteria, distinguishes hard requirements from preferences, gathers missing evidence when permitted, scores or compares alternatives consistently, and ends with one recommendation plus the conditions that could change it.
Product behaviour reviewed against VDF AI Cloud · 2026-09-04Match the Skill to the job, provide the required context, and decide what a useful output must contain before the agent begins.
The Skill supplies structured judgement and sequencing. VDF AI supplies the separately governed capabilities used during each step.
Define the decision, alternatives, non-negotiable constraints, and who will own the outcome.
Make evaluation criteria explicit and prevent a convenient metric from deciding the result accidentally.
Apply the same evidence standard to each option and identify material information gaps.
Choose one option, explain the trade-offs, and state what new evidence would reverse the decision.
Option Comparison can call these capabilities only when they are assigned to the agent and authorised for the user. The Skill itself never expands access.
“Compare three private AI deployment options for a European bank and recommend one using our five stated criteria.”
A weighted decision record with evidence, disqualifiers, trade-offs, and the event that would change the recommendation.
Option Comparison gives the agent a repeatable method. Tool permissions stay separate, and the capability can run inside a governed multi-agent Network.
Use these relationships as starting points, then narrow the agent’s access and workflow to the actual business context.
A reliable Agent Skill states its boundaries as clearly as its capabilities, especially when the workflow can influence decisions or external systems.
Yes. It is designed to end with one recommended option while showing the trade-offs, assumptions, and evidence that shaped the choice.
It can use live web research when the agent has those tools. Private pricing or internal requirements still need to be supplied through connected sources or by the user.
Yes, when Document Generator is assigned. The comparison can also feed File Deliverables to produce a longer report or spreadsheet.
Assign the Skill, grant only the tools the agent needs, and test the workflow with your own controlled context.