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Stoic Setback Debrief
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-26
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-dead-mentors
Recover from a professional setback — a failed launch, brutal feedback, a public mistake, a lost deal, a layoff — using the actual exercises from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: the control sort, the evening review, and turning the obstacle into the task. Use when someone says 'today went badly', 'I blew it', 'the launch failed', 'I got torn apart in that meeting', or before replying to something that stung. Produces a structured debrief that separates what happened from the story, and ends in one next action.
✅ 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 camera version contains zero judgments — read it back looking for hidden
✓adjectives ("disaster", "furious") and strip them
✓Every worry the user named appears in exactly one control column
✓The obstacle-turn names a task, not a lesson — "diagnose the funnel by
✓Thursday" not "resilience is important"
✓The next action is doable within 24 hours by the user alone
✓References are to real passages (book/section noted); paraphrase rather than
✓risk a misquote — Meditations is the most misquoted book on the internet
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not console first and sort second — run the procedure; steadiness comes
from the sorting, not the sympathy
Do not use the control sort to excuse what was the user's (column one gets
*more* scrutiny, not less — that's the honest half of Stoicism)
Do not produce "at least" sentences — the obstacle-turn is a task assignment,
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-mcpRelated skills
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