deep-work-blocking
Protect focus time that actually survives the week — the block placement matched to real energy hours, the defense rules (what moves a block, what never), the entry ritual that beats the blank-stare start, and the honest sizing that stops 8-hour fantasy blocks. Use when asked block focus time that keeps getting eaten, when should I schedule deep work, my calendar has no room to think, or I block time and then waste it. Produces the block design, the defense tiers, the entry ritual, and the meeting-culture negotiation.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill deep-work-blocking --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.
# Deep Work Blocking Skill Focus blocks fail three ways: placed wrong (2pm slump hosting the hardest work), defended badly (the block that moves for every invite is decoration with a border color), and entered badly (twenty minutes of warmup-shuffling inside a 90-minute block is a 70-minute block wearing a lie). The design fixes all three: blocks land on the user's *actual* high-energy hours ([energy-scheduling](../energy-scheduling/SKILL.md) supplies the map), carry explicit defense tiers (what outranks them — almost nothing — and the decline scripts), and start with an entry ritual — the named task waiting, the environment pre-set — because a block is a container, and containers need contents chosen *before* the clock starts. ## What This Skill Produces - **The block design** — count, length (90–120 min beats the 8-hour fantasy), and placement on real energy hours - **The defense tiers** — what moves a block (genuine emergencies, defined), what never does, and the decline scripts - **The entry ritual** — the task named the day before, the environment checklist, the first-five-minutes rule - **The culture negotiation** — making blocks legible to the team (the shared norm beats the
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Blocking Rules
- Output Format
- The Blocks
- Defense
- The Entry Ritual
- The Culture Layer
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the deep-work-blocking skill do?
Protect focus time that actually survives the week — the block placement matched to real energy hours, the defense rules (what moves a block, what never), the entry ritual that beats the blank-stare start, and the honest sizing that stops 8-hour fantasy blocks. Use when asked block focus time that keeps getting eaten, when should I schedule deep work, my calendar has no room to think, or I block time and then waste it. Produces the block design, the defense tiers, the entry ritual, and the meeting-culture negotiation.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill deep-work-blocking --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.