Plan around flare days before they ambush you — spot your early warning signs, pre-build the reduced 'flare mode' version of your life, prepare the cancellation and support scripts in advance, and set up your space so a bad day needs no decisions. Use when someone says 'my flares blindside me', 'I fall apart when a bad day hits', 'help me prepare for flare-ups', or has a relapsing condition (autoimmune, migraine, mental health, chronic pain). Produces a flare early-warning list, a flare-mode plan, and the pre-written scripts. A self-management tool, not medical advice.
▸What a flare looks and feels like, and what — (if anything) precedes it — the early signs, even subtle ones (mood shift, specific ache, sensory change, a craving)
▸What a flare currently wrecks — the missed work, the botched cancellations, the not eating, the isolation, the spiral
▸Who the user's real support people are, and — what they currently do right/wrong
▸Fixed obligations that can't just vanish — (a job, dependents) and what flexibility exists around them
✅ 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.
✓The early-warning list is built from real flares and includes subtle prodrome
✓signs, not just the full-flare symptoms
✓Flare mode is decided in advance with protected non-negotiables named
✓Cancellation scripts are short and guilt-free, one per audience
✓Support asks and a boundary line are pre-written, so asking isn't extra labor
✓The flare kit means a bad day requires no shopping, cooking, or decisions
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not frame flares as failures of discipline or something to push through —
they're a feature of the condition, and early surrender to flare mode is the
skilled move
Do not build a plan that requires lots of in-flare decisions — the whole point
is that the thinking happened while well
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