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Desktop Zero
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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Clear the desktop that's become a hundred-icon guilt mosaic — the fast triage that empties it today, the honest read of what the desktop was being used for (it's a to-do list wearing icons), and the replacement systems that keep it clear. Use when asked clean up my desktop, my desktop has 200 files on it, why does my desktop keep filling up, or set up a clean-desktop habit. Produces the today-pass, the function-replacement mapping, and the two-minute weekly habit.
What to give it
▸The census — roughly what's there: how many icons, what kinds (screenshots? docs-in-progress? shortcuts? installers?)
▸The honest function — "I keep things there so I don't forget them" vs "it's just where things land" — the replacement plan differs
▸The real systems available — is there a task system to receive the reminders? A folder structure ([folder-structure-designer](../folder-structure-designer/SKILL.md)) to receive the files? Absences get patched first
✅ 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.
✓Reminder-files became task entries with links — not just moved files
✓The working set landed in a pinned real home, preserving the access speed
✓Landing inflows were redirected at the source, not just cleaned once
✓Nothing went to a `Desktop-backup` dump — every item got a verb
✓The weekly pass is scheduled
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not sweep into a backup folder — it's the mosaic with a lid, and the desktop regrows in weeks
Do not delete the reminder-files without capturing their tasks — the anxiety was load-bearing
Do not fight for zero while inflows still point at the desktop — redirect first, then clear
Do not moralize the mosaic — it was three reasonable needs in the wrong place; the fix is homes, not discipline
Do not skip the access-speed replacement — a clear desktop that slows the user down gets recluttered in self-defense
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-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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