Agent skill

Co Parenting Messages

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Write calm, businesslike co-parenting messages that keep the focus on the kids and stay out of the old conflict — for scheduling, expenses, decisions, and hard topics.

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Install Co Parenting Messages

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill co-parenting-messages -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills co-parenting-messages --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/co-parenting-messages .claude/skills/co-parenting-messages && 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
co-parenting-messages
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
542 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Write calm, businesslike co-parenting messages that keep the focus on the kids and stay out of the old conflict — for scheduling, expenses, decisions, and hard topics.

  • Works in 6 steps: Center the child, not the history. Frame… → Strip the bait. Remove blame, sarcasm,… → Keep it brief and factual (BIFF). Brief,… → …
  • Asked to write a message to my co-parent
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Brief, Informative,… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Co Parenting Messages is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Write calm, businesslike co-parenting messages that keep the focus on the kids and stay out of the old conflict — for scheduling, expenses, decisions, and hard topics. Use when asked to write a message to my co-parent, respond to my ex about the kids, co-parenting communication help, or how to reply without a fight. Produces a message drafted in a neutral, child-centered tone (the 'BIFF'-style brief/informative/friendly/firm approach), the bait removed, a clear ask or answer, and a note on documentation —…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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

  • Asked to write a message to my co-parent
  • Respond to my ex about the kids
  • Co-parenting communication help
  • How to reply without a fight

Example prompts

  • “/co-parenting-messages”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Center the child, not the history. Frame everything around the kids' needs and logistics; leave the relationship out of it.
  2. Strip the bait. Remove blame, sarcasm, and reactions to their provocations — responding to bait is how logistics become fights. Answer…
  3. Keep it brief and factual (BIFF). Brief, informative, friendly, and firm — enough to convey the point, not an essay that invites a…
  4. Make one clear ask/answer. State the request, decision, or response plainly, with specifics (dates, amounts) — reduce back-and-forth.
  5. Hold boundaries calmly. Decline off-topic or hostile threads politely and redirect to the child-focused matter.
  6. Keep the record. Prefer written/app-based channels and a factual tone — useful for clarity now and if it ever matters legally.

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

Co Parenting Messages loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 149 tokens; SKILL.md has 542 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~149
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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). 542 words, ~1,136 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/co-parenting-messages/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
co-parenting-messages
description
Write calm, businesslike co-parenting messages that keep the focus on the kids and stay out of the old conflict — for scheduling, expenses, decisions, and hard topics. Use when asked to write a message to my co-parent, respond to my ex about the kids, co-parenting communication help, or how to reply without a fight. Produces a message drafted in a neutral, child-centered tone (the 'BIFF'-style brief/informative/friendly/firm approach), the bait removed, a clear ask or answer, and a note on documentation — steering away from anything that escalates. Not legal advice.

Co-Parenting Messages

Co-parenting communication goes wrong when old relationship dynamics leak into logistics — a simple scheduling text becomes a fight. This drafts messages that stay businesslike and child-centered: brief, factual, and firm, with the emotional bait stripped out, so you address the actual issue (schedule, expense, decision) without reigniting conflict — and keep a clean record while you're at it.

What This Skill Produces

  • A calm, child-centered draft — the message written in a neutral, businesslike tone focused on the kids and the logistics
  • Bait removed — provocations, blame, and digs (theirs and yours) filtered out so you don't escalate
  • A clear ask or answer — one concrete request, decision, or response, not a rehash of grievances
  • Boundary phrasing — how to hold a line (say no, decline a topic) firmly and politely
  • A documentation note — keeping communication on the record (a co-parenting app or written channel) for clarity and, if needed, proceedings

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The topic — schedule, pickup/dropoff, expenses, a parenting decision, or a sensitive issue
  • What was said — their message, if you're replying (paste it)
  • Your goal — arrange something, answer, hold a boundary, or de-escalate
  • The dynamic — high-conflict, cooperative-ish, or somewhere between
  • Any constraints — a custody agreement/order terms relevant to the ask

Framework: Brief, Informative, Friendly, Firm

  1. Center the child, not the history. Frame everything around the kids' needs and logistics; leave the relationship out of it.
  2. Strip the bait. Remove blame, sarcasm, and reactions to their provocations — responding to bait is how logistics become fights. Answer only the substance.
  3. Keep it brief and factual (BIFF). Brief, informative, friendly, and firm — enough to convey the point, not an essay that invites a rebuttal war.
  4. Make one clear ask/answer. State the request, decision, or response plainly, with specifics (dates, amounts) — reduce back-and-forth.
  5. Hold boundaries calmly. Decline off-topic or hostile threads politely and redirect to the child-focused matter.
  6. Keep the record. Prefer written/app-based channels and a factual tone — useful for clarity now and if it ever matters legally.
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Output Format

Co-parenting message: topic [x] · goal [y] · tone: [de-escalate]

Draft

[Brief, factual, child-centered message: the specific ask/answer, dates/amounts as needed, warm-but-firm, no bait, no blame.]

What I removed: [the digs/reactions filtered out]. Boundary line (if needed): "[polite decline + redirect]". Keep on record: [written/app channel; factual tone].

Not legal advice. For custody/legal disputes, follow your agreement or order and consult a family-law professional.

Quality Checks

  • Tone is neutral, businesslike, and child-centered
  • Provocations/blame (theirs and yours) are stripped out
  • Contains one clear ask or answer with specifics
  • Holds any needed boundary politely and firmly
  • Notes keeping communication on the record
  • Avoids anything that escalates; flags not-legal-advice

Anti-Patterns

  • Taking the bait and firing back.
  • Rehashing the relationship instead of the logistics.
  • An essay that invites a point-by-point war.
  • Vague asks that cause more back-and-forth.
  • Hostile "documentation" written to score points rather than resolve.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Help me reply to my ex about swapping this weekend without it turning into a fight."
  • "Write a calm message asking my co-parent to split a school expense."
  • "My ex sent a nasty text about pickup — help me respond neutrally."
  • "How do I tell my co-parent no to a schedule change, politely but firmly?"
  • "Rewrite this message so it's child-focused and not combative."

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/co-parenting-messages of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Co Parenting Messages

What does Co Parenting Messages do?

Write calm, businesslike co-parenting messages that keep the focus on the kids and stay out of the old conflict — for scheduling, expenses, decisions, and hard topics. Co Parenting Messages is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Write calm, businesslike co-parenting messages that keep the focus on the kids and stay out of the old conflict — for scheduling, expenses, decisions, and hard topics.

When should I use Co Parenting Messages?

Co Parenting Messages fits situations like: asked to write a message to my co-parent; respond to my ex about the kids; co-parenting communication help; how to reply without a fight.

How do I install Co Parenting Messages in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Co Parenting Messages in Codex?

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

Can I use Co Parenting Messages 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 co-parenting-messages -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/co-parenting-messages, .gemini/skills/co-parenting-messages, .github/skills/co-parenting-messages and .opencode/skills/co-parenting-messages in your project.

What does Co Parenting Messages need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Co Parenting Messages is instructions for the agent only.

Does Co Parenting Messages 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 Co Parenting Messages 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 Co Parenting Messages use?

Co Parenting Messages 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 Co Parenting Messages use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k 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 Co Parenting Messages?

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.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.