the-time-capsule
Write a sealed memo to your future self or successor — the honest state of things, falsifiable predictions with confidence levels, and the advice you suspect they'll need — with an open-on date and a scoring ritual for when it's opened. Use when leaving a role, finishing a big project, at year-end or planning season, before a leave, or 'write a letter to my successor'. Produces the sealed capsule, its prediction ledger, and the opening-day ritual.
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill the-time-capsule --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.
# The Time Capsule Skill Handover docs describe systems; nobody writes down the thing successors actually need — *what you believed and how sure you were*. A time capsule is a memo with a seal date and an open date: the honest state of things, named predictions with confidence levels, the advice you'd whisper across time — and a scoring ritual, because a prediction you never score is just a mood. It's calibration infrastructure wearing an emotionally sticky costume, and it works on future-you exactly as well as on a successor. ## What This Skill Produces - The **capsule memo**: honest state, the things-nobody-writes-down (fragile truces, bodies buried, bets in flight), and advice offered with humility - A **prediction ledger**: 5–10 falsifiable predictions, each with a confidence percentage, a resolution date, and its scoring criterion - The **seal**: open-on date and trigger ("when you're considering rewriting the billing system, open early") - An **opening-day ritual**: how to score the ledger and what to do with what it reveals — feeds [[decision-journal]] and, at 90 days, dovetails with [[manager-first-90-days]] for role handovers ## Required Inputs Ask for (if not already prov
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What does the the-time-capsule skill do?
Write a sealed memo to your future self or successor — the honest state of things, falsifiable predictions with confidence levels, and the advice you suspect they'll need — with an open-on date and a scoring ritual for when it's opened. Use when leaving a role, finishing a big project, at year-end or planning season, before a leave, or 'write a letter to my successor'. Produces the sealed capsule, its prediction ledger, and the opening-day ritual.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill the-time-capsule --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.