What do I need to use Spoon Planner?

What a good day, an average day, and; The tasks of a normal week and which; The condition's pattern; The non-negotiables.

Is Spoon Planner 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.

Spoon Planner

Q: How do I know the Spoon Planner output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Plans for the range (including the floor), not an optimistic average; The price list surfaces invisible costs (showering, socializing, decisions,; digestion), not just obvious tasks; Rest is banked before cost; boom-bust is named; post-exertional delay is.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-07 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-invisible-illness

Budget limited energy the way spoon theory describes it — count your realistic daily 'spoons', price what each task actually costs (including the invisible ones), protect the non-negotiables, and plan for the days you'll have far fewer. Use when someone says 'I only have so much energy', 'help me pace with my chronic illness', 'I keep crashing', or lives with ME/CFS, long COVID, fibromyalgia, POTS, MS, or any limited-capacity condition. Produces a spoon budget, a task price list, and a pacing plan that respects payback and post-exertional crashes. A self-management tool, not medical advice.

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What to give it

▸What a good day, an average day, and — a bad day look like in energy (the range matters more than a number)

▸The tasks of a normal week and which — ones wreck the user disproportionately

▸The condition's pattern — is there payback/post-exertional malaise (exertion today → worse in 1–2 days)? flares? predictable bad times?

▸The non-negotiables — what must get spoons even on a hard day (meds, the kid, the one thing that keeps them sane)

✅ 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.

✓Plans for the range (including the floor), not an optimistic average

✓The price list surfaces invisible costs (showering, socializing, decisions,

✓digestion), not just obvious tasks

✓Rest is banked before cost; boom-bust is named; post-exertional delay is

✓respected where relevant

✓Non-negotiables are budgeted off the top and protected on floor days

✓The crash-day plan is pre-made, so a bad day requires no spoon-costing decisions

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not import hustle/productivity framing — "push through," "no excuses," and

"just do a bit more" are actively harmful in a spoon economy

Do not plan to the good day; that's the boom-bust trap the skill exists to break

Do not moralize rest or treat leaving spoons unspent as failure — banked rest

is the strategy, not laziness

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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