What do I need to use Reconnect After Time Away?

Who; The history; Constraints; Your hope.

Is Reconnect After Time Away 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.

Reconnect After Time Away

Q: How do I know the Reconnect After Time Away output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Honors legal/custody/no-contact limits before any outreach; Opens without demanding forgiveness; Rebuilds trust through consistent action, not declarations; Scripts apologies without excuses and receiving anger.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-11⚖️ rules checked 2026-08-18Not yet expert-reviewed · review it 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-reentry

Rebuild relationships with family, kids, and friends after incarceration or a long absence — how to reach out, repair trust at the other person's pace, and handle the hard first conversations. Use when asked how do I reconnect with my kids after prison, rebuild trust with family after being away, or the first conversation after a long absence. Produces a paced reconnection plan (who to reach first and how), opening messages that don't demand forgiveness, a way to rebuild trust through consistency rather than words, scripts for the hard conversations, and realistic expectations about time and rejection. Centers the other person's pace; points to family therapy and reentry family services.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft ⬇ Add to Claude (works in Duet) 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“How do I reconnect with my kids after being away?”“Help me rebuild trust with my family after prison.”“What do I say in the first conversation after so long?”“I want to reach out but I don't want to pressure them.”“How do I handle it when they're still angry at me?”

What to give it

▸Who — the relationships you want to rebuild (kids, partner, parents, friends) and their current openness

▸The history — how you left off, roughly, and how long

▸Constraints — any legal/custody/no-contact limits that control what's allowed

▸Your hope — what reconnection would look like, so we pace toward it realistically

✅ 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.

✓Honors legal/custody/no-contact limits before any outreach

✓Opens without demanding forgiveness

✓Rebuilds trust through consistent action, not declarations

✓Scripts apologies without excuses and receiving anger

✓Paces to the other person (and children) realistically; points to therapy

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**A single grand gesture** instead of steady consistency.

**Demanding forgiveness** or fast reconciliation.

**Defending yourself** when anger surfaces.

**Ignoring custody/no-contact limits** — harmful and often illegal.

**Treating a closed door** as failure rather than something to respect.

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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