What do I need to use Overwhelm Triage?

The pile; Genuine hard deadlines; What only you can do; Your capacity right now.

Is Overwhelm Triage 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.

Overwhelm Triage

Q: How do I know the Overwhelm Triage output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The whole pile is captured and sorted into the four buckets; Urgency is actually challenged, not accepted; Honest "drop this" calls are made explicit; The do-now bucket is small (1–2 things).

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

When everything feels urgent and equally impossible, sort it fast into do-now / schedule / drop / delegate — so the panic becomes a short, calm list. Use when asked everything is urgent, I'm drowning in tasks, help me triage, or I can't tell what actually matters right now. Produces your overwhelming pile sorted into four clear buckets, the honest 'actually drop this' calls most people won't make themselves, the one thing to do right now, and relief from the false belief that everything must be done immediately.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“Everything is urgent and I'm drowning — help me triage.”“I have too much to do and can't think straight.”“Sort my to-do list, I can't tell what matters.”“I'm overwhelmed — what can I actually drop?”“Help me figure out what actually needs to happen today.”

What to give it

▸The pile — everything crushing you right now (dump it)

▸Genuine hard deadlines — what truly can't move

▸What only you can do — vs. what could be dropped, delayed, or handed off

▸Your capacity right now — how much you can actually do today

✅ 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 whole pile is captured and sorted into the four buckets

✓Urgency is actually challenged, not accepted

✓Honest "drop this" calls are made explicit

✓The do-now bucket is small (1–2 things)

✓One single next action is surfaced

✓It reframes the "everything is urgent" pressure

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Putting everything in "do now"** — that's just the overwhelm re-listed.

**Refusing to drop anything.**

**A long do-now list** that re-triggers panic.

**Ignoring delegation/help** as an option.

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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