What do I need to use The Year of Firsts?

Who you lost; The hard days you're dreading; Your traditions; Your support.

Is The Year of Firsts 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 Year of Firsts

Q: How do I know the The Year of Firsts output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Maps the specific anticipated hard days ahead; Gives keep/change/skip permission for each, guilt-free; Offers grounding for unexpected grief waves; Includes ways to honor the person's memory.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-18 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-grief

Get through the first year after losing someone — the birthdays, holidays, and ordinary triggers that ambush you — with a gentle plan for the hard days instead of being blindsided. Use when asked how do I get through the holidays after a death, the first birthday without them, grief is hitting me in waves, or coping with the first year of loss. Produces a map of the anticipated hard days, keep/change/skip options for each, grounding for the ambush waves, ways to include their memory, and gentle markers for when grief needs more support. Not therapy; points to grief counseling and support groups.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“How do I get through the holidays without them this year?”“The first birthday without my mom is coming and I'm dreading it.”“Grief keeps hitting me in waves out of nowhere.”“How do I survive the first year after losing my partner?”“Should we keep our traditions or change them this year?”

What to give it

▸Who you lost — and roughly when, so we can map the calendar ahead

▸The hard days you're dreading — if you already know some

▸Your traditions — what occasions involved them, so we can plan each

▸Your support — who's around, so the plan isn't solitary

✅ 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.

✓Maps the specific anticipated hard days ahead

✓Gives keep/change/skip permission for each, guilt-free

✓Offers grounding for unexpected grief waves

✓Includes ways to honor the person's memory

✓Plans support in advance; flags stuck grief gently, with resources

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**"You should be over it"** timelines — grief has no schedule.

**Forcing traditions** unchanged when changing or skipping would be kinder.

**Facing the marked days alone** with no one told in advance.

**Avoiding all mention** of the person as if that helps.

**Pathologizing normal grief** — or missing genuine warning signs.

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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