spoon-planner
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.
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill spoon-planner --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.
# 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
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What does the spoon-planner skill 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 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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill spoon-planner --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.