What do I need to use Interrupt Rules?

The genuine emergencies in this person's work; People whose messages always warrant an interrupt, if; Quiet hours and focus blocks; Current cadence and whether they would pay more.

Is Interrupt Rules 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.

Interrupt Rules

Q: How do I know the Interrupt Rules output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every trigger is checkable by matching, not by judging importance; The never-interrupt list is at least as long as the interrupt list; The alert format forbids acting; it offers a draft and stops; Quiet hours have no exception that is not on the any-hour list.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-22 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-duet

Write the between-brief alert rules for a proactive agent: exactly what may interrupt you, what waits for the next brief, and the wording of an interruption. Use when asked to set interrupt rules, only alert me for X, stop my agent pinging me, decide what counts as urgent for Duet, or define when an AI assistant may break my focus. Produces a short ruleset with named interrupt triggers, a default of silence, quiet hours, and the three-line alert format.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“Set my interrupt rules: only break in for X and Y”“Duet pings me too much, write rules for when it may alert me”“Define quiet hours and what can override them”“What should count as urgent enough to interrupt me?”

What to give it

▸The genuine emergencies in this person's work — what has actually burned them before

▸People whose messages always warrant an interrupt, if — any

▸Quiet hours and focus blocks

▸Current cadence and whether they would pay more — checks for faster alerts

✅ 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.

✓Every trigger is checkable by matching, not by judging importance

✓The never-interrupt list is at least as long as the interrupt list

✓The alert format forbids acting; it offers a draft and stops

✓Quiet hours have no exception that is not on the any-hour list

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not write "anything urgent" as a trigger; urgency is the output of these rules, not an input

Do not let the agent escalate frequency on its own after a missed item; cadence changes are the person's call

Do not interrupt to report that nothing happened

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

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