overwhelm-triage
When everything feels urgent and equally impossible, sort it fast into do-now / schedule / drop / delegate — so the panic becomes a short, calm list. Use when asked everything is urgent, I'm drowning in tasks, help me triage, or I can't tell what actually matters right now. Produces your overwhelming pile sorted into four clear buckets, the honest 'actually drop this' calls most people won't make themselves, the one thing to do right now, and relief from the false belief that everything must be done immediately.
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill overwhelm-triage --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.
# Overwhelm Triage Overwhelm is often a lie your stress tells you — that everything is urgent, important, and yours to do right now. It rarely is. This triages the pile fast into four buckets (do now / schedule / drop / delegate), makes the honest "you can actually let this go" calls you won't make while panicking, and hands you one thing to do — turning a flood into a short, calm list. ## What This Skill Produces - **The four-bucket sort** — everything sorted into 🔴 do now · 🗓 schedule · 🗑 drop · 🤝 delegate/ask-for-help - **The honest drops** — the tasks that feel mandatory but genuinely aren't, named (the relief most people can't give themselves) - **The real do-now** — usually just one or two things that actually need you right now - **The scheduled rest** — everything else assigned a later when, so it leaves your head - **The pressure release** — the explicit "not everything has to happen today" reframe ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The pile** — everything crushing you right now (dump it) - **Genuine hard deadlines** — what truly can't move - **What only you can do** — vs. what could be dropped, delayed, or handed off - **Your capacity right now** —
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: Sort, Drop, Do One
- Output Format
- The pile: [everything, captured]
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
- Example Trigger Phrases
What does the overwhelm-triage skill do?
When everything feels urgent and equally impossible, sort it fast into do-now / schedule / drop / delegate — so the panic becomes a short, calm list. Use when asked everything is urgent, I'm drowning in tasks, help me triage, or I can't tell what actually matters right now. Produces your overwhelming pile sorted into four clear buckets, the honest 'actually drop this' calls most people won't make themselves, the one thing to do right now, and relief from the false belief that everything must be done immediately.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill overwhelm-triage --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 1,277 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.