What do I need to use Deep Work Blocking?

The energy reality; The calendar's constraints; The work that needs the blocks; The interruption culture.

Is Deep Work Blocking free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Deep Work Blocking

Q: How do I know the Deep Work Blocking output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Blocks are 90–120 min on honest energy peaks; Every block has a tier and the scripts exist; Tomorrow's block already has its named task; The team-legibility norm is proposed, not just personal stealth.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

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.

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What to give it

▸The energy reality — when the user's genuinely sharp hours fall (the honest answer, not the aspirational one); blocks on slump hours produce guilt, not work

▸The calendar's constraints — the immovable meetings, the team's collaboration hours, the time zone spread; blocks live in the real grid

▸The work that needs the blocks — the big-three outcomes ([weekly-review-ritual](../weekly-review-ritual/SKILL.md)) the blocks exist to serve; blocks without assigned work become email time with the door closed

▸The interruption culture — can a block survive here socially? The negotiation section scales to the actual environment

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Blocks are 90–120 min on honest energy peaks

✓Every block has a tier and the scripts exist

✓Tomorrow's block already has its named task

✓The team-legibility norm is proposed, not just personal stealth

✓The 60-second self-review closes each block

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not block the fantasy 8 hours — two real units beat one heroic collapse

Do not place deep work on slump hours because they're free — free and useless is why they're free

Do not enter without a named task — an unassigned block is email with ambiance

Do not defend by itemizing — "I have a commitment" is complete; justification invites negotiation

Do not fight the culture solo forever — the negotiated norm is the sustainable version of the fight

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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