Is The Ick Decoder 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.

The Ick Decoder

Q: How do I know the The Ick Decoder output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The decode works from the *specific* trigger, not a vague vibe; It genuinely distinguishes the four flavors and commits to a verdict with reasoning; The pattern/history check is run — it's the tiebreaker for self-sabotage; The available-ick vs unsafe-ick distinction is explicitly drawn.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-07 🔷 SkillSpec L3 other

Figure out whether 'the ick' about someone you're dating is a real incompatibility, a genuine red flag, or an anxious/avoidant self-sabotage pattern worth pushing through — by interrogating the specific ick honestly. Use when someone says 'I caught the ick and I don't know why', 'is this a red flag or am I just scared', 'I always find a reason to end things', or is talking themselves out of someone good. Produces a decode of the specific ick, a red-flag vs pattern verdict, and a next move. Honest self-reflection, not a permission slip in either direction.

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✅ 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 decode works from the *specific* trigger, not a vague vibe

✓It genuinely distinguishes the four flavors and commits to a verdict with reasoning

✓The pattern/history check is run — it's the tiebreaker for self-sabotage

✓The available-ick vs unsafe-ick distinction is explicitly drawn

✓The next move is honest, not whichever answer the user was fishing for

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not rubber-stamp the user's preferred conclusion — the value is telling

self-sabotage from a real flag, which sometimes means the unwelcome answer

Do not pathologize every ick as avoidance OR validate every ick as instinct —

both lazy takes; the specific trigger decides

Do not talk anyone into staying with someone who treats them badly — a red flag

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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