What do I need to use Where Do I Start?

The pile; Any hard deadlines; Your energy right now; What "start" means today.

Is Where Do I Start 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.

Where Do I Start

Q: How do I know the Where Do I Start output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The full pile is captured and listed; It's ordered by one clear, simple logic; Exactly one concrete next action is surfaced; The rest is explicitly hidden/parked.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-focus

Turn a chaotic pile of everything-in-your-head into one clear first action — the antidote to the paralysis of too much at once. Use when asked I don't know where to start, I'm overwhelmed with everything I have to do, help me get going, or just tell me what to do first. Produces your brain-dump organized into a simple ordered list, the single next physical action to take right now, and the rest deliberately hidden so it can't overwhelm — outsourcing the executive-function job of structuring, so you can just execute.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“I have a million things to do and I'm frozen — where do I start?”“I'm so overwhelmed I can't begin. Just tell me the first thing.”“Help me get going, my brain is a mess of tasks.”“Everything feels urgent. What do I do first?”“I don't know where to start with any of this.”

What to give it

▸The pile — everything on your mind (dump it messy — that's the point)

▸Any hard deadlines — things that genuinely can't wait

▸Your energy right now — running on empty or okay

▸What "start" means today — just get moving, or make real progress

✅ 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 full pile is captured and listed

✓It's ordered by one clear, simple logic

✓Exactly one concrete next action is surfaced

✓The rest is explicitly hidden/parked

✓The first action is small enough to start easily

✓Next steps are revealed one at a time, not all at once

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Handing back the whole ordered list** — re-creates the overwhelm.

**A vague first step** ("start working on the project").

**A complex prioritization system** for someone who just needs to move.

**Five "next" actions** at once.

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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