What do I need to use Future Selves Council?

The decision; The now-pull; The stakes; Your values.

Is Future Selves Council 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.

Future Selves Council

Q: How do I know the Future Selves Council output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: All three future selves give distinct, honest takes; The present-vs-future conflict is made explicit; The vote is weighted by the stakes (not always "think long-term"); The final call serves the right future self.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-thinking

Bring three versions of future-you into a decision — you in a week, in a year, and in ten years — because they each want different things. Use when asked what would future me want, will I regret this, think long-term about this choice, or help me decide for the long run. Produces each future self's honest take on today's decision, where they conflict (short-term relief vs long-term payoff), whose vote should weigh most given what's at stake, and the choice that best serves the future-you that matters here.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“Will I regret skipping this? What would future me want?”“Help me think long-term about whether to take this contract.”“Present me wants to quit — what do my future selves say?”“Should I spend this or save it? Ask future me.”“Decide this for the long run, but keep it doable now.”

What to give it

▸The decision — what you're choosing, especially if it's now-vs-later

▸The now-pull — what present-you wants (comfort, avoidance, a treat, safety)

▸The stakes — reversible and small, or lasting and big

▸Your values — what future-you would actually care about

✅ 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.

✓All three future selves give distinct, honest takes

✓The present-vs-future conflict is made explicit

✓The vote is weighted by the stakes (not always "think long-term")

✓The final call serves the right future self

✓It adds a concession to make the choice actually doable

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**All three futures agreeing** — no real tension.

**Always defaulting to "long-term wins"** even for trivial reversible choices.

**Ignoring present-you** entirely so the plan is unbearable.

**No actual decision** at the end.

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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