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Agent skill

Future Self Interview

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Interview your future self about a decision or a stuck moment — a structured perspective-shift that pulls you out of present emotion and into the long view, using your own values and patterns rather…

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Install Future Self Interview

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill future-self-interview -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills future-self-interview --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/future-self-interview .claude/skills/future-self-interview && 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
future-self-interview
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
675 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Interview your future self about a decision or a stuck moment — a structured perspective-shift that pulls you out of present emotion and into the long view, using your own values and patterns rather…

  • Works in 5 steps: Build future-you from the user, not from… → Interview, don't monologue. Present-you… → Let future-you be honest, not… → …
  • Someone says I dont know what to do
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework and Output Format, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Future Self Interview is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Interview your future self about a decision or a stuck moment — a structured perspective-shift that pulls you out of present emotion and into the long view, using your own values and patterns rather than generic advice or woo. Use when someone says 'I don't know what to do', 'help me think long-term about this', 'what would future me say', or is stuck in the fog of a big decision. Produces an interview with your 5-or-10-years-older self, the themes it surfaces, and one concrete next step it points to. A…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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 dont know what to do
  • Help me think long-term about this
  • What would future me say
  • Is stuck in the fog of a big decision

Example prompts

  • “t know what to do”
  • “help me think long-term about this”
  • “what would future me say”
  • “/future-self-interview”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Build future-you from the user, not from platitudes. The older self speaks in
  2. Interview, don't monologue. Present-you asks real questions — "was it worth
  3. Let future-you be honest, not reassuring. The point isn't comfort — it's the
  4. Separate insight from wishful projection. Flag where the "future self" is really
  5. Land on one step. Perspective that changes nothing is entertainment. The

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

Future Self Interview loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 147 tokens; SKILL.md has 675 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~147
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 675 words, ~1,466 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/future-self-interview/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
future-self-interview
description
Interview your future self about a decision or a stuck moment — a structured perspective-shift that pulls you out of present emotion and into the long view, using your own values and patterns rather than generic advice or woo. Use when someone says 'I don't know what to do', 'help me think long-term about this', 'what would future me say', or is stuck in the fog of a big decision. Produces an interview with your 5-or-10-years-older self, the themes it surfaces, and one concrete next step it points to. A structured reflection, not prediction or fortune-telling.

Future Self Interview Skill

Present-you is a bad advisor on big decisions — flooded with immediate emotion, sunk cost, and the loudest current pressure. Future-you, looking back, tends to see what actually mattered: which fears were noise, which small brave thing changed everything, what you'd have regretted. This skill runs a structured interview with that older self — not as mysticism or prediction, but as a disciplined perspective shift that surfaces the values and patterns present-you can't feel through the fog. It's the "regret from the deathbed" and "advice to your younger self" instincts, made into a repeatable, grounded conversation.

What This Skill Produces

  • A structured interview: present-you asks, future-you (5 or 10 years on, or at a chosen life stage) answers — built from the user's own stated values, history, and patterns, not generic wisdom
  • The themes it surfaces: what future-you keeps returning to, the fears they dismiss, the thing they wish present-you had done sooner
  • A reality check: separating genuine long-view insight from wishful projection — future-you is honest, not a hype-man
  • One concrete next step the interview points toward — because perspective without an action is just a nice feeling

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • The decision or stuck point, and what's making it hard right now
  • The user's actual values and what they've regretted or been proud of before (the raw material — future-you is built from these, not invented)
  • The time horizon that fits (5 years for a career/relationship fork, the deathbed view for a life-shape question)
  • What present-you is most afraid of, and most tempted by

Framework

  1. Build future-you from the user, not from platitudes. The older self speaks in the user's own values and history — if the user has always regretted playing it safe, future-you knows that; if they've been burned by impulsiveness, future-you remembers. Generic "follow your heart" future-selves are useless; a future-you made of the user's real patterns is uncannily useful.
  2. Interview, don't monologue. Present-you asks real questions — "was it worth it?", "what did I waste time worrying about?", "what do you wish I'd done this year?", "what mattered that I can't see yet?" — and future-you answers specifically. The Q&A structure does the perspective work; a lecture doesn't.
  3. Let future-you be honest, not reassuring. The point isn't comfort — it's the longer view, which sometimes says "yes you should make the scary change" and sometimes "the thing you're agonizing over won't matter; the thing you're ignoring will." Future-you can deliver an uncomfortable truth; a purely soothing one has failed the exercise.
  4. Separate insight from wishful projection. Flag where the "future self" is really present-you's wishful thinking wearing a costume vs a genuine values-consistent long view. The honest version notes: "this answer might be your fear/hope talking — here's how to tell."
  5. Land on one step. Perspective that changes nothing is entertainment. The interview ends by asking future-you: "what's the one thing you wish present-me would do this week?" — small, concrete, doable now.
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Output Format

## The setup
[The decision · the horizon · who future-you is, built from your values/patterns]

## The interview
Present-you: [real question]
Future-you: [specific, honest, in-your-own-values answer]
[…several exchanges — worth it? / what I wasted worry on / what mattered / the regret]

## What future-you kept returning to
[The themes · the fears they dismissed · the thing to do sooner]

## Insight vs wishful thinking
[Where this is genuine long-view · where it might be hope/fear in disguise, and how
to tell]

## The one thing to do this week
[Small, concrete, now]

Quality Checks

  • Future-you is built from the user's actual values/history, not generic wisdom
  • It's an interview (Q&A), not a monologue, and the questions are real ones
  • Future-you says at least one uncomfortable/non-reassuring thing where honest
  • Wishful-projection is flagged and distinguished from genuine long view
  • It ends on one concrete, this-week step

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not present this as prediction, fortune-telling, or mysticism — it's a perspective-shift tool; future-you is a lens, not an oracle
  • Do not make future-you a pure hype-man — reassurance-only defeats the long view
  • Do not import generic life-advice — a future self that could belong to anyone helps no one
  • Do not let it end without an action, or it's just a pleasant daydream
  • Do not use it to rationalize a decision already made — if the user's steering future-you to a predetermined answer, name that gently

[[life-premortem]] is the shadow version (imagine it failed); [[regret-minimizer]] and [[decision-journal]] neighbors; [[the-time-capsule]] to actually write to your future self; [[franklin-decision-ledger]] for the analytical complement.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "I don't know what to do."
  • "Help me think long-term about this."
  • "What would future me say?"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/future-self-interview of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Future Self Interview

What does Future Self Interview do?

Interview your future self about a decision or a stuck moment — a structured perspective-shift that pulls you out of present emotion and into the long view, using your own values and patterns rather…. Future Self Interview is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Interview your future self about a decision or a stuck moment — a structured perspective-shift that pulls you out of present emotion and into the long view, using your own values and patterns rather than generic advice or woo.

When should I use Future Self Interview?

Future Self Interview fits situations like: someone says I dont know what to do; help me think long-term about this; what would future me say; is stuck in the fog of a big decision.

How do I install Future Self Interview in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Future Self Interview in Codex?

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

Can I use Future Self Interview 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 future-self-interview -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/future-self-interview, .gemini/skills/future-self-interview, .github/skills/future-self-interview and .opencode/skills/future-self-interview in your project.

What does Future Self Interview need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Future Self Interview is instructions for the agent only.

Does Future Self Interview 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 Future Self Interview 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 Future Self Interview use?

Future Self Interview 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 Future Self Interview use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Future Self Interview?

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Who maintains Future Self Interview?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,433 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 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.