# Fewer Doors

> Cut the options you are about to offer someone down to a few, and suggest one. Write who is choosing and what
> for, list three to twenty options (dishes, drinks, places, plans) and say how the choice is made - said out loud
> (three at once), read at a glance on a sign or screen (four) or read at leisure on a menu or form (seven). The page
> draws a street with a door per option, shows the choice load from Hick's law and guesses which options repeat each
> other; you can open and close doors, star must-offer options and run a free trim. A metered run keeps the options
> that best fit the goal with a reason each, suggests one, folds real near-repeats into one wording, or - when
> everything must stay on offer - groups the options under two to four short headings. Built on the SkillSafe skill
> @owl-listener/hicks-law.

https://fewer-doors.skillsafe.ai/

## What is free
- The street of doors, the limit for each way of choosing, the illustrative choice load (log2 of the options plus one, in bits - not a measurement), and a word-overlap guess at repeats.
- Opening and closing doors by click, keyboard or list buttons; starring must-offer options; choosing the suggested door; the free trim (must-offer first, then the list's order).
- Three sample choices replay their saved short lists at no cost.
- Downloads: the doors (PNG, SVG), what to offer (plain text, a numbered list for a group chat, Markdown, JSON). Doors changed by hand after a run get the page's own offer line, naming exactly the open doors.

## The metered task
One task, `trim`, on gpt-terra, metered per run. Input string fields: `task`, `goal`, `options` (numbered lines `N. the option`), `option_count`, `must_offer` (line numbers or `none`), `mode` (`spoken`, `glance` or `leisure`), `limit`, `keep_all` (`yes` or `no`), `group_cap` and `likely_repeats`. The reply is one JSON object: `verdict` (`keep` - few enough already; `group` - everything stays, under headings; `trim` - offer `limit` options, the rest on request), `shortlist`, `pick` (the one to suggest), `picks` (a reason per offered option), `groups`, `merge` (pairs that are the same choice, with one wording), `opener` (the line that offers the choice) and `note`.

The page sanitises every reply - it never hides an option, never offers more than the limit on a trim, and keeps must-offer options visible - and checks the verdict, the short list, the headings, the merges and the wording against what was sent.

## Links
- API tutorial: https://fewer-doors.skillsafe.ai/api.html
- Source skill: https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@owl-listener/hicks-law (owl-listener/designer-skills)