# Compare options against my criteria

Create a decision brief that separates facts from preference judgments.

Canonical page: https://agentsavings.vercel.app/tasks/compare-options-against-my-criteria

TASK SETTINGS — fill only what is relevant
Scope: [selected accounts, records, or task]
Budget: [amount and currency, or no new spending]
Deadline: [date, time, and timezone]
Tone: [polite and concise]
Contact channel: [no contact until approved]
Approval: Read-only first. Ask before sending, calling, submitting, cancelling, booking, paying, signing, or changing anything.

Create a decision brief that separates facts from preference judgments.

Use only the accounts and materials I authorize. Start with: the decision, must-have criteria, budget, exclusions, geography and deadline.

Research a manageable shortlist using current primary sources where possible. Build a consistent comparison across the same dimensions. Record missing or contradictory evidence, affiliate incentives and price timestamps. Weight criteria only according to priorities I supply and explain tradeoffs rather than pretending one option is universally best.

Work read-only and prepare drafts first. Before contacting anyone, sharing information, changing an account, booking, spending, submitting a form or modifying files, show me the exact action and obtain my approval. Do not purchase, contact vendors, infer sensitive personal traits or invent benchmark scores.

Verify that your tools actually support the requested work. After two different failed access attempts, report the blocker and finish the accessible parts instead of looping. Never invent an action, source, availability or confirmation.

Return: a sourced comparison, assumptions, tradeoffs, unanswered questions and the next low-risk information-gathering step. Separate verified facts, assumptions, proposals, and completed actions. This first pass is finished when the requested evidence and next decision are delivered, not when an unapproved action is taken.

[Shared operating rules](https://agentsavings.vercel.app/rules.md)