What do I need to use Grieving at Work?

The situation; Your workplace; Your role; What you need.

Is Grieving at Work 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.

Grieving at Work

Q: How do I know the Grieving at Work output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Provides a short manager message with a sharing boundary; Points to bereavement/PTO/flexible leave and HR/EAP; Plans a realistic, reduced-capacity re-entry; Scripts the mid-meeting wave and clumsy condolences.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-18⚖️ rules checked 2026-08-18Not yet expert-reviewed · review it 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-grief

Handle work while grieving — what to tell your manager and team, how much leave you can take, and how to function (or not) when you're back but not okay. Use when asked how do I tell my boss someone died, going back to work after a death, bereavement leave, or I can't focus at work while grieving. Produces a short message to tell your manager and team (with the boundary of how much to share), what to know about bereavement leave and options, a realistic re-entry plan for the first weeks back, scripts for when grief hits at work or people say the wrong thing, and how to ask for what you need — so work doesn't compound the loss. Not legal/HR advice; points to your policy, HR, and EAP.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“How do I tell my boss that my mom died?”“I'm going back to work after a death and I'm not ready.”“What are my options for bereavement leave?”“I can't focus at work since I lost him — what do I do?”“Someone at work said something awful about my loss — how do I respond?”

What to give it

▸The situation — who you lost and where you are (about to tell work / taking leave / back and struggling)

▸Your workplace — how supportive, your rough policy/benefits if known

▸Your role — how much flexibility it allows

▸What you need — time, a lighter load, quiet, travel for a funeral

✅ 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.

✓Provides a short manager message with a sharing boundary

✓Points to bereavement/PTO/flexible leave and HR/EAP

✓Plans a realistic, reduced-capacity re-entry

✓Scripts the mid-meeting wave and clumsy condolences

✓Encourages asking for concrete accommodations

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Oversharing** with the whole office out of obligation.

**Rushing back** at full load and crashing.

**White-knuckling** instead of naming what you need.

**Treating the bare-minimum leave** as the only option.

**No plan** for grief surfacing during the workday.

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 -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp

Related skills

🔌 Embed this skill

Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

<div data-pm-skill="grieving-at-work"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

💬 Discussion

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