shutdown-ritual
End the workday on purpose — the ten-minute shutdown that closes open loops, stages tomorrow's start, and gives the brain permission to actually stop (the incomplete-task hum has an off switch, and it's written). Use when asked I can't stop thinking about work at night, build an end-of-day routine, my evenings are ruined by open loops, or how do I stop checking one more time. Produces the shutdown checklist, the tomorrow-staging step, the closing phrase, and the after-hours boundary rules.
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill shutdown-ritual --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.
# Shutdown Ritual Skill The workday that never ends doesn't end because it was never *ended* — open loops hum all evening (the unsent reply, the half-decision, the thing you might forget), and the brain, which can't tell captured from uncaptured, keeps rehearsing all of it. The shutdown is ten minutes of deliberate ending: sweep the loops into the system (written = the hum's off switch), stage tomorrow's start (the named first task — [deep-work-blocking](../deep-work-blocking/SKILL.md) entry ritual's supplier), glance the calendar for ambushes, and *close with the phrase* — the verbal marker that sounds silly and works, because rituals are how brains change state. ## What This Skill Produces - **The shutdown checklist** — the ten-minute sequence, ordered, tuned to the user's actual systems - **The staging step** — tomorrow's first task named and its materials left open ([weekly-review-ritual](../weekly-review-ritual/SKILL.md)'s daily sibling) - **The closing phrase** — the state-change marker, chosen by the user, used every time - **The boundary rules** — the after-hours contract: what genuinely reopens work (defined narrowly), and the phone mechanics that make the contract keepabl
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Ritual Rules
- Output Format
- The Checklist
- The Staging Note (today's)
- The Boundary Contract
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the shutdown-ritual skill do?
End the workday on purpose — the ten-minute shutdown that closes open loops, stages tomorrow's start, and gives the brain permission to actually stop (the incomplete-task hum has an off switch, and it's written). Use when asked I can't stop thinking about work at night, build an end-of-day routine, my evenings are ruined by open loops, or how do I stop checking one more time. Produces the shutdown checklist, the tomorrow-staging step, the closing phrase, and the after-hours boundary rules.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill shutdown-ritual --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.