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The Time Capsule

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06 ✅ 4.8/5 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-2027

Write a sealed memo to your future self or successor — the honest state of things, falsifiable predictions with confidence levels, and the advice you suspect they'll need — with an open-on date and a scoring ritual for when it's opened. Use when leaving a role, finishing a big project, at year-end or planning season, before a leave, or 'write a letter to my successor'. Produces the sealed capsule, its prediction ledger, and the opening-day ritual.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“Leave a role.”“Finishing a big project.”“Plan season.”“Before a leave.”“Write a letter to my successor.”

What to give it

▸Who opens it — (successor, future you, the team) and roughly when (a date, or a trigger event)
▸The occasion — leaving, project end, year-end, pre-leave
▸The current state as they'd tell a trusted friend — including what's fragile, what's pretending to be fine, and what they'd do next if they stayed
▸The calls they're least sure about — those become the best predictions

✅ 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 prediction is falsifiable with its scoring criterion pre-agreed —
✓no "things will improve"
✓Confidence percentages vary; a ledger of all-70% is hedging in costume
✓At least one fragile-or-pretending item that would never appear in an
✓official handover
✓Advice is in if-then-because form; the permission slip exists
✓The seal has both a date and an early-open trigger, and the memo commits
✓the writer to not editing after sealing

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not write a legacy-polishing document — the opener scores it; vanity
ages worst of all
Do not let predictions hide in prose; the ledger table is the contract
Do not settle scores or name-blame — "the truce with X is fragile" is
information; "X is impossible" is a grenade with a delay fuse

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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