Agent skill

Bennett Time Audit

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Audit a week the way Arnold Bennett's 'How to Live on 24 Hours a Day' (1908) prescribes — time as the one income that cannot be increased, the day-within-the-day, and starting with 90 minutes, not a…

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Install Bennett Time Audit

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill bennett-time-audit -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills bennett-time-audit --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/bennett-time-audit .claude/skills/bennett-time-audit && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
bennett-time-audit
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
670 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Audit a week the way Arnold Bennett's 'How to Live on 24 Hours a Day' (1908) prescribes — time as the one income that cannot be increased, the day-within-the-day, and starting with 90 minutes, not a…

  • Works in 5 steps: The income reframe (Ch. 1) — before the… → The ledger, honestly (Ch. 3–4) — map the… → Start absurdly small (Ch. 4) — his… → …
  • Someone says I have no time
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Bennett's program… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Bennett Time Audit is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Audit a week the way Arnold Bennett's 'How to Live on 24 Hours a Day' (1908) prescribes — time as the one income that cannot be increased, the day-within-the-day, and starting with 90 minutes, not a life overhaul. Use when someone says 'I have no time', 'work eats everything', 'I want to learn X but can't fit it', or asks for a time audit or evening routine. Produces a time ledger, one reclaimed 'inner day' block, and Bennett's own warnings about overreach.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Someone says I have no time
  • Work eats everything
  • I want to learn X but cant fit it
  • Asks for a time audit

Example prompts

  • “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”
  • “I have no time”
  • “work eats everything”
  • “/bennett-time-audit”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. The income reframe (Ch. 1) — before the ledger, the accounting truth: everyone
  2. The ledger, honestly (Ch. 3–4) — map the stated day, then probe the margins he
  3. Start absurdly small (Ch. 4) — his prescription is exact: **ninety minutes,
  4. Give the block a discipline, not a vibe (Ch. 8–10) — the block needs one named
  5. His caveats, verbatim in spirit (Ch. 11–12) — the chapter modern summaries

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Bennett Time Audit loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 120 tokens; SKILL.md has 670 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~120
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 670 words, ~1,401 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/bennett-time-audit/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
bennett-time-audit
description
Audit a week the way Arnold Bennett's 'How to Live on 24 Hours a Day' (1908) prescribes — time as the one income that cannot be increased, the day-within-the-day, and starting with 90 minutes, not a life overhaul. Use when someone says 'I have no time', 'work eats everything', 'I want to learn X but can't fit it', or asks for a time audit or evening routine. Produces a time ledger, one reclaimed 'inner day' block, and Bennett's own warnings about overreach.

Bennett Time Audit Skill

Bennett wrote the original time-management book for commuters and clerks, and its opening reframe still cuts: time is "the inexplicable raw material of everything", delivered fresh daily — you cannot earn more of it, and you cannot waste it in advance. His program is deliberately unheroic: don't optimise the job; build a small day within the day from the hours around it, and start with ninety minutes three evenings a week, expecting it to be hard. This skill runs his audit and his program, including his warnings, which modern productivity advice quietly dropped.

What This Skill Produces

  • A 24-hour ledger for a typical weekday: where the hours actually go, with the "muddled margin" (commute, scrolling, the vague hour after dinner) made visible
  • One inner-day block: a concrete 90-minute, 3-evenings-a-week commitment with a named purpose the user chose
  • A protection plan for that block (what it displaces, what threatens it, the rule for missing it)
  • Bennett's caveats, applied — the book's own anti-burnout warnings

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • A typical weekday, hour by hour as best they can tell it (waking to sleep)
  • What they wish they had time for — the real want, not the respectable one
  • Their honest energy map: when in the day they are actually alert
  • What they've tried before and how it died

Framework: Bennett's program (1908), applied

  1. The income reframe (Ch. 1) — before the ledger, the accounting truth: everyone gets exactly 24 hours; the feeling of "no time" is an allocation problem wearing a scarcity costume. No blame — Bennett's tone is companionable, keep it.
  2. The ledger, honestly (Ch. 3–4) — map the stated day, then probe the margins he names: the commute or its modern equivalent, the gap between waking and working, and the evening's "vague, dark, sterile" stretch that disappears without record. Most people find 2–4 unowned hours; the point is not to seize them all.
  3. Start absurdly small (Ch. 4) — his prescription is exact: ninety minutes, three evenings a week, and treat it as inviolable. "Beware of undertaking too much at the start" — the failure mode he predicts is enthusiasm, not laziness.
  4. Give the block a discipline, not a vibe (Ch. 8–10) — the block needs one named pursuit that requires effort (his examples: serious reading, studying an art, learning the causes of things). "Reading" isn't a program; "working through one book of X with notes, Tue/Thu/Sun" is.
  5. His caveats, verbatim in spirit (Ch. 11–12) — the chapter modern summaries skip: the program must not make you insufferable or turn the week into a prison-timetable ("the risk of becoming a prig"); leave the margin human; if an evening dies, the program isn't broken — rigidity about the wreck is.
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Output Format

## Your 24-hour ledger (typical weekday)
| Block | Hours | Actually spent on | Owned or muddled? |
Muddled margin found: ~X hours/day

## The inner day
[The 90-minute block × 3 evenings: which evenings, which hours, matched to the
energy map · the named pursuit, made concrete]

## Protecting it
[What it displaces (named honestly) · the two most likely killers and the
counter-move for each · the missed-evening rule: skip, never reschedule-spiral]

## Bennett's warnings, applied to you
[Which of his failure modes this user is closest to — overreach, priggishness,
or treating the margin as a second job — and the guard]

## Review date
[Two weeks in: keep, shrink, or move the block — shrinking is success, not failure]

Quality Checks

  • The ledger accounts for all 24 hours — sleep and the muddled margin included; a ledger that only lists productive blocks missed the book's point
  • The block is ≤90 minutes and ≤3 evenings to start, whatever the user's enthusiasm — cite Bennett's overreach warning when trimming their ambition
  • The pursuit is named and effortful, chosen by the user, not assigned
  • The protection plan names what the block displaces — reclaimed time comes from somewhere, and pretending otherwise is how programs die
  • The tone stays companionable — an audit, not an auditing

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not optimise the working day itself — Bennett's insight is that the job is the day's landlord and the margins are where freedom lives; day-job problems route to deep-work-blocking and standing-meeting-audit
  • Do not fill every found hour — the program is one block; the rest of the margin stays slack on purpose
  • Do not moralise about the scrolling the ledger surfaces; record it and move on
  • Do not build a schedule so tight that one bad Tuesday collapses it — that is the exact failure Chapter 11 predicts
  • Do not promise transformed lives — Bennett's honest pitch was a fuller life at the margins, and that's this skill's pitch too

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "I have no time."
  • "Work eats everything."
  • "I want to learn X but can't fit it."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/bennett-time-audit of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Bennett Time Audit

What does Bennett Time Audit do?

Audit a week the way Arnold Bennett's 'How to Live on 24 Hours a Day' (1908) prescribes — time as the one income that cannot be increased, the day-within-the-day, and starting with 90 minutes, not a…. Bennett Time Audit is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Audit a week the way Arnold Bennett's 'How to Live on 24 Hours a Day' (1908) prescribes — time as the one income that cannot be increased, the day-within-the-day, and starting with 90 minutes, not a life overhaul.

When should I use Bennett Time Audit?

Bennett Time Audit fits situations like: someone says I have no time; work eats everything; I want to learn X but cant fit it; asks for a time audit.

How do I install Bennett Time Audit in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill bennett-time-audit -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/bennett-time-audit in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/bennett-time-audit in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Bennett Time Audit in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill bennett-time-audit -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/bennett-time-audit in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/bennett-time-audit in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Bennett Time Audit in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill bennett-time-audit -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/bennett-time-audit, .gemini/skills/bennett-time-audit, .github/skills/bennett-time-audit and .opencode/skills/bennett-time-audit in your project.

What does Bennett Time Audit need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Bennett Time Audit is instructions for the agent only.

Does Bennett Time Audit access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Bennett Time Audit safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Bennett Time Audit use?

Bennett Time Audit is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Bennett Time Audit use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Bennett Time Audit?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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