Agent skill

Spoon Planner

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Budget limited energy the way spoon theory describes it — count your realistic daily 'spoons', price what each task actually costs (including the invisible ones), protect the non-negotiables, and…

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Install Spoon Planner

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill spoon-planner -a claude-code

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

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

At a glance

Budget limited energy the way spoon theory describes it — count your realistic daily 'spoons', price what each task actually costs (including the invisible ones), protect the non-negotiables, and…

  • Works in 5 steps: Count honestly, plan for the low end.… → Price the invisible costs. People… → Rest before, not after — and name… → …
  • Someone says I only have so much energy
  • 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

Spoon Planner is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Budget limited energy the way spoon theory describes it — count your realistic daily 'spoons', price what each task actually costs (including the invisible ones), protect the non-negotiables, and plan for the days you'll have far fewer. Use when someone says 'I only have so much energy', 'help me pace with my chronic illness', 'I keep crashing', or lives with ME/CFS, long COVID, fibromyalgia, POTS, MS, or any limited-capacity condition. Produces a spoon budget, a task price list, and a pacing plan that respects…

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 only have so much energy
  • Help me pace with my chronic illness
  • I keep crashing
  • Lives with ME/CFS

Example prompts

  • “spoons”
  • “ll have far fewer. Use when someone says”
  • “help me pace with my chronic illness”
  • “/spoon-planner”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Count honestly, plan for the low end. The allowance isn't a fixed number and
  2. Price the invisible costs. People account for the obvious tasks and get
  3. Rest before, not after — and name boom-bust. The trap is spending everything
  4. Protect the non-negotiables first. Budget the must-happens (meds, care
  5. Pre-decide the crash day. Decisions cost spoons, and a crash is when you have

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

Spoon Planner loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 153 tokens; SKILL.md has 730 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~153
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). 730 words, ~1,503 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/spoon-planner/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
spoon-planner
description
Budget limited energy the way spoon theory describes it — count your realistic daily 'spoons', price what each task actually costs (including the invisible ones), protect the non-negotiables, and plan for the days you'll have far fewer. Use when someone says 'I only have so much energy', 'help me pace with my chronic illness', 'I keep crashing', or lives with ME/CFS, long COVID, fibromyalgia, POTS, MS, or any limited-capacity condition. Produces a spoon budget, a task price list, and a pacing plan that respects payback and post-exertional crashes. A self-management tool, not medical advice.

Spoon Planner Skill

Spoon theory names what healthy people never have to think about: with a chronic illness, energy is a finite daily allowance, every task costs from it, and overspending isn't "pushing through" — it's borrowing against tomorrow at brutal interest (the crash, the flare, post-exertional malaise). Standard productivity advice assumes infinite spoons and actively harms here. This skill runs the actual math: what you've got, what things cost, what's worth spending on, and how to plan so a good day doesn't buy three bad ones. Pacing, not pushing.

What This Skill Produces

  • A spoon budget: your realistic daily allowance (which varies — the skill plans for the range, not a fantasy average) and how it shifts with sleep, flares, and weather
  • A task price list: what your recurring activities actually cost in spoons — including the invisible costs (showering, socializing, decisions, masking, digesting) that ambush people
  • A pacing plan: spending the allowance across the day/week with rest banked before the cost, not after the crash — and the "boom-bust" trap named
  • A crash-day protocol: the pre-planned low-spoon day so a bad morning doesn't require decisions you won't have the spoons to make

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • What a good day, an average day, and a bad day look like in energy (the range matters more than a number)
  • The tasks of a normal week and which ones wreck the user disproportionately
  • The condition's pattern: is there payback/post-exertional malaise (exertion today → worse in 1–2 days)? flares? predictable bad times?
  • The non-negotiables — what must get spoons even on a hard day (meds, the kid, the one thing that keeps them sane)

Framework

  1. Count honestly, plan for the low end. The allowance isn't a fixed number and it isn't the good-day number. Budget to a realistic average with a plan for the floor — building your life around your best day is the fastest route to a permanent bad one.
  2. Price the invisible costs. People account for the obvious tasks and get ambushed by the hidden ones: showering, cooking, a phone call, socializing (huge), decisions, emotional labor, digestion, masking symptoms in public. The price list surfaces them, because an unaccounted cost is where the budget breaks.
  3. Rest before, not after — and name boom-bust. The trap is spending everything on a good day and crashing for three. Pacing means resting proactively, spreading spend, and stopping while you still have some — deliberately leaving spoons in the drawer. For conditions with post-exertional malaise, this isn't optional; overspending today is felt in two days, so today's plan must respect the delay.
  4. Protect the non-negotiables first. Budget the must-happens (meds, care duties, the anchor that protects mental health) off the top, then allocate what's left. On a floor day, everything else is negotiable; those are not.
  5. Pre-decide the crash day. Decisions cost spoons, and a crash is when you have fewest — so make the bad-day plan now, in advance: the reduced list, the permissions ("canceling is allowed"), the grab-and-go food, the message templates to cancel without a paragraph. A crash shouldn't also be a planning session.
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Output Format

## Your spoon budget
Good day: … · Average: … · Bad day (the floor): …
What moves it: [sleep, flare, weather, payback]

## Task price list (spoons)
| Task | Cost | Invisible cost people miss |

## This week's pacing plan
[Spend spread with rest banked BEFORE cost · the "leave spoons in the drawer" rule ·
payback delay accounted for if relevant]

## Crash-day protocol (decided now)
[The reduced list · non-negotiables only · cancel templates · permissions]

Quality Checks

  • Plans for the range (including the floor), not an optimistic average
  • The price list surfaces invisible costs (showering, socializing, decisions, digestion), not just obvious tasks
  • Rest is banked before cost; boom-bust is named; post-exertional delay is respected where relevant
  • Non-negotiables are budgeted off the top and protected on floor days
  • The crash-day plan is pre-made, so a bad day requires no spoon-costing decisions

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not import hustle/productivity framing — "push through," "no excuses," and "just do a bit more" are actively harmful in a spoon economy
  • Do not plan to the good day; that's the boom-bust trap the skill exists to break
  • Do not moralize rest or treat leaving spoons unspent as failure — banked rest is the strategy, not laziness
  • Do not give medical or treatment advice — this manages energy around a condition; the condition's care belongs with a clinician
  • Do not ignore payback/PEM for conditions that have it — advice that works for fatigue can worsen ME/CFS; ask about the delay and respect it

[[flare-day-planner]] for the worse days this anticipates; [[diagnosis-limbo-kit]] if the condition is still unnamed; [[bennett-time-audit]] and [[deep-work-blocking]] are the infinite-spoon cousins — useful, but read them through this lens.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "I only have so much energy."
  • "Help me pace with my chronic illness."
  • "I keep crashing."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/spoon-planner of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Spoon Planner

What does Spoon Planner do?

Budget limited energy the way spoon theory describes it — count your realistic daily 'spoons', price what each task actually costs (including the invisible ones), protect the non-negotiables, and…. Spoon Planner is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Budget limited energy the way spoon theory describes it — count your realistic daily 'spoons', price what each task actually costs (including the invisible ones), protect the non-negotiables, and plan for the days you'll have far fewer.

When should I use Spoon Planner?

Spoon Planner fits situations like: someone says I only have so much energy; help me pace with my chronic illness; I keep crashing; lives with ME/CFS.

How do I install Spoon Planner in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Spoon Planner in Codex?

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

Can I use Spoon Planner 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 spoon-planner -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/spoon-planner, .gemini/skills/spoon-planner, .github/skills/spoon-planner and .opencode/skills/spoon-planner in your project.

What does Spoon Planner need to run?

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

Does Spoon Planner 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 Spoon Planner 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 Spoon Planner use?

Spoon Planner 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 Spoon Planner use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k 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 Spoon Planner?

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Who maintains Spoon Planner?

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.