What do I need to use Task Triage Matrix?

The list, complete; What important means here; The real deadlines vs. the claimed; The delegation reality.

Is Task Triage Matrix 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.

Task Triage Matrix

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

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every urgent claim was audited to its source and consequence; Importance references stated goals, not mood; Every task left with one of the four verbs; The drop list was dropped explicitly, net included.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Triage an overwhelming task list into what actually gets done — the urgent/important sort applied honestly (with the two corrections the classic matrix needs), the do/schedule/delegate/drop verbs, and the list hygiene that keeps triage from becoming a weekly archaeology dig. Use when asked my task list is overwhelming, triage my todos, everything feels urgent, or what should I actually work on. Produces the sorted list with verbs, the urgency audit (what's fake-urgent), the drop list with permission, and the intake rule.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“My task list is overwhelming.”“Triage my todos.”“What should I actually work on?”

What to give it

▸The list, complete — everything: the tool's tasks, the sticky notes, the head's carry ([weekly-review-ritual](../weekly-review-ritual/SKILL.md) sweep-grade completeness); triaging half a list re-runs next week

▸What important means here — importance needs a referent: the quarter's goals, the role's real mandate ("important to whom, for what?"); without it the matrix runs on mood

▸The real deadlines vs. the claimed — per urgent-claiming task: who set the date, what actually happens if it slips (the audit's raw material)

▸The delegation reality — who could take what; a delegate-verb with nobody to receive it is a schedule-verb in denial

✅ 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 urgent claim was audited to its source and consequence

✓Importance references stated goals, not mood

✓Every task left with one of the four verbs

✓The drop list was dropped explicitly, net included

✓The intake gate is installed with its question

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not honor inherited urgency unaudited — other people's ASAPs are claims, and claims get checked

Do not let do-today exceed three — a nine-item today is a wish list wearing a deadline

Do not schedule to "later" — later is where tasks go to become archaeology

Do not hoard the unimportant-nonurgent quadrant — six weeks untouched is the list's own verdict

Do not skip the gate — triage without intake discipline is a diet with free dessert

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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