What do I need to use Unblock Protocol?

The stuck thing and its symptom; How long and how it's felt; What's been tried; The stakes and deadline.

Is Unblock Protocol 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.

Unblock Protocol

Q: How do I know the Unblock Protocol output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The type was diagnosed before any move was prescribed; The move matches the type — no generic advice; Struggle timeboxes are pre-committed with stakes-based lengths; The ask leads with attempts and a specific question.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Get unstuck on purpose — the stuck-type diagnosis (don't-know-how, can't-decide, waiting, avoiding, too-big), the matched unblock move for each, and the timebox that stops noble struggling before it eats the day. Use when asked I'm stuck on this and don't know why, I keep avoiding this task, how long should I struggle before asking, or unblock my stalled project. Produces the stuck diagnosis, the matched move, the ask-for-help script that preserves standing, and the stuck-log pattern read.

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What to give it

▸The stuck thing and its symptom — what's stalled and what happens when they try ("I open the doc and re-read my notes" is a different disease than "I know exactly what to write and keep not opening the doc")

▸How long and how it's felt — an hour or a week; frustration (usually know-how), dread (avoiding), or fog (too-big) — the feeling is diagnostic data

▸What's been tried — the failed attempts refine the diagnosis and feed the ask script (well-formed asks lead with them)

▸The stakes and deadline — the timebox calibrates: a due-tomorrow block gets a 30-minute struggle budget; a someday project affords more

✅ 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 type was diagnosed before any move was prescribed

✓The move matches the type — no generic advice

✓Struggle timeboxes are pre-committed with stakes-based lengths

✓The ask leads with attempts and a specific question

✓The log entry exists and patterns get structural reads

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not struggle nobly past the box — the silent stuck day costs more than the sharp question

Do not research can't-decide blocks — information is that type's procrastination costume

Do not effort at avoidance — shrink it, name it, or pair on it; grinding slides off emotional blocks

Do not let waiting wear the active badge — it's a lane, with chase dates

Do not treat chronic same-type stucks as bad luck — three entries is the system telling you the structural thing

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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