Decisions

AI-extracted decisions from meetings and coding sessions. Capture, review, edit, and embed decisions in your documents.

Stoa automatically extracts decisions from your meetings and coding sessions. Instead of decisions disappearing into chat logs and meeting notes, they're captured as structured, reviewable artifacts.

How Decisions Are Captured

During a session, the AI monitors:

Spoken conversation (via live transcription)
Workspace documents (files being edited)
AI agent interactions (prompts and responses)

When the AI identifies a decision, it creates a decision record with:

Title and rationale
Owners (who is responsible)
Confidence score (how certain the AI is)
Source quotes (the original context that triggered the extraction)
Session attribution (which session produced it)

Decisions appear in the Decisions section of the left sidebar in real time.

Reviewing Decisions

Each decision card can be reviewed with one of three states:

State	Icon	Meaning
Not Reviewed	Yellow indicator	Awaiting your review
Accepted	Green checkmark	Approved and tracked
Rejected	Red X	Dismissed

Click the thumbs up or thumbs down button to accept or reject a decision. You can undo an accept/reject to return it to "not reviewed."

Tip

Editing any field on a decision automatically accepts it. This makes it easy to refine decisions as you review them.

Decision Fields

Every decision has the following fields, all editable inline:

Field	Description
Title	Short description of the decision
Rationale	Why this decision was made
Owners	Comma-separated list of responsible people
Due Date	When it needs to be done (date picker)
Confidence	AI's confidence score, 0-100% (visual indicator)
Level	Importance tier: L1, L2, or L3
Notes	Private notes about the decision
Completed	Checkbox to mark as done
Source Quotes	Expandable section showing original conversation context

All fields auto-save when you click away.

Objectives

You can add objectives (sub-tasks) to any decision:

Track completion status for each objective
Manage action items that fall out of a decision
Check off objectives as they're completed

Comments

Decisions support threaded comments:

Team members can discuss a decision inline
Comments are visible to all participants
Useful for async follow-up after a session

Filters and Stats

Filtering

Filter the decisions list by:

Review state: not reviewed, accepted, rejected, all
Archive status: active or archived
Owner: filter by assignee
Sort order: by extracted date, curated date, level, or confidence

Stats Dashboard

The top of the Decisions panel shows:

Stat	Description
Total	All decisions
Not Reviewed	Awaiting review
Accepted	Approved decisions
Rejected	Dismissed decisions
Archived	Hidden from main view
Completed	Marked as done

Actions

Each decision card supports:

Accept / Reject with thumbs up/down buttons
Archive to hide from the main view
Copy to copy decision text to clipboard
View Source to expand and see original conversation quotes
Edit for inline editing of all fields

Embedding Decisions in Documents

Decisions can be embedded directly in markdown files. When you embed a decision, it renders as an interactive card inside the editor.

Syntax:

![DECISION:content_hash]()

The embedded card shows the decision title, rationale, and accept/reject buttons, so reviewers can act on decisions without leaving the document.

Decision Lifecycle

AI extracts decision → Not Reviewed → Accepted / Rejected
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                                     Edit fields
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                                   Add objectives
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                                   Mark completed
                                          ↓
                                      Archive

Note

The sidebar defaults to the Decision Topics view during active meetings. Decisions are still accessible via the command palette (G D) or direct navigation.