What do I need to use When Someone Dies?

The relationship and the role; The situation basics; The household reality.

Is When Someone Dies 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.

When Someone Dies

Q: How do I know the When Someone Dies output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Today's list has ≤5 items and no financial decisions; The certificate order (with a number) appears in week one; Every institution call routes through the same certified-copy script; The should-wait list explains its protective logic.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-estate

The first two weeks after a death, organized — what genuinely needs doing now, what only feels urgent, who to notify in what order, and the documents everything else will require. Use when asked someone just died what do I do, checklist after a death, help me handle my parent's affairs, or what needs to happen this week. Produces the triaged timeline (today / this week / can wait), the notification order, the death-certificate math, and the scripts for the hardest calls — written for someone who cannot think straight, because that's who's reading.

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What to give it

▸The relationship and the role — next of kin? named executor? helpful sibling? The task list differs sharply by role, and doing another role's tasks creates real problems

▸The situation basics — where it happened (home/hospital/hospice changes the first hours), whether arrangements exist (pre-plan, known wishes, nothing), and the country/region — death administration is deeply jurisdiction-specific; this skill sequences the universal shape and flags every local step as verify-locally

▸The household reality — dependents, pets, an empty home, urgent bills that genuinely can't wait

✅ 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.

✓Today's list has ≤5 items and no financial decisions

✓The certificate order (with a number) appears in week one

✓Every institution call routes through the same certified-copy script

✓The should-wait list explains its protective logic

✓Every jurisdiction-specific step carries the verify-locally flag

✓The you-are-not-alone line appears verbatim

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not produce the 90-item master checklist on day one — triage IS the product; the wall of tasks is what this skill replaces

Do not let feels-urgent into today — probate, accounts, and the house are week-three-or-later conversations

Do not advise paying estate debts or distributing anything — that's the estate process, with its own skill and its own professionals

Do not state legal deadlines as universal — flag and route locally

Do not write in checklist-cheerful tone — plain, warm, and short; the reader is grieving

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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