attention-reset
Get your attention back with a 30-day protocol that assumes you'll break it — a screen-time ledger without moralizing, friction engineering (what to delete, grayscale, where the phone sleeps), planned relapses, and honest replacement activities for the boredom that shows up on day 3. Use when someone says 'my screen time is 7 hours', 'I want a dumbphone', 'digital detox', 'I can't read books anymore', or 'my attention span is gone'. Produces the ledger, a personal friction plan, and the 30-day protocol with expected failure points.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill attention-reset --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Attention Reset Skill Attention didn't get weak — it got outbid. Apps engineered by thousands of people compete for it against your unread book, and the book was never going to win on willpower. So this protocol doesn't use willpower: it uses *friction* — making the scroll slightly harder and the alternative slightly easier — plus honest accounting, planned relapses (day 3 and day 12 are coming; a plan that pretends otherwise is a plan for shame), and the missing piece in every detox thread: you can't delete a habit, only replace it, so the replacement gets designed with the same care as the deletions. Bennett wrote the original time audit in 1908; this is the sequel his readers didn't need yet — [[bennett-time-audit]] assumed your evening was empty; your phone disagrees. ## What This Skill Produces - An **attention ledger**: where the hours actually go (from their screen- time stats), split by *chosen* vs *captured* time — the distinction that replaces moralizing - A **personal friction plan**: the delete/keep/cripple list for their actual apps, plus environmental moves (grayscale, where the phone sleeps, the launcher diet) - The **30-day protocol**: week-by-week, with expected
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What does the attention-reset skill do?
Get your attention back with a 30-day protocol that assumes you'll break it — a screen-time ledger without moralizing, friction engineering (what to delete, grayscale, where the phone sleeps), planned relapses, and honest replacement activities for the boredom that shows up on day 3. Use when someone says 'my screen time is 7 hours', 'I want a dumbphone', 'digital detox', 'I can't read books anymore', or 'my attention span is gone'. Produces the ledger, a personal friction plan, and the 30-day protocol with expected failure points.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill attention-reset --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.