A weekly energy budget that actually respects your ceiling.
Tell it your spoon count and what you need to do this week. It plans your days, flags where you'll crash, and suggests what to cut or swap before you pay the price.
$9.99
Works in Claude + ChatGPT
01Turns a messy task list into a day-by-day spoon budget — so you can see Tuesday's problem before Tuesday happens.
02Flags overcommitted days and offers specific substitutions ("skip folding, bag-store laundry instead") not just warnings.
03Applies the 50% rule and PEM buffer automatically — you don't have to do the math or remember to hold back.
04Assigns spoon costs to tasks you haven't priced yourself, using a curated reference table covering physical, cognitive, and emotional load.
05Spots compounding costs — like an insurance call the day after a doctor's appointment — that manual pacing almost always misses.
06Includes a plain-language pacing explainer if you're new to spoon theory or need to show someone else why the plan looks the way it does.
What it does
Pacing is the only intervention that actually helps with Long COVID and ME/CFS — but doing it by hand, in your head, while running on fumes, is how you end up crashed on Thursday wondering what went wrong on Monday. This skill takes your energy ceiling and your real week (shower, GP appointment, the insurance call you've been dreading, a friend visiting) and builds you a day-by-day spoon budget with the hard limits already baked in.
It draws on a bundled spoon cost reference table that covers physical, cognitive, and emotional tasks — including compounding costs like 'emotionally draining call the day after a medical appointment' — so you don't have to guess. If you've never heard of spoon theory or the 50% rule, the bundled pacing explainer walks you through it in plain language before you plan anything.
This is for people who already know pacing matters but can't sustain the mental overhead of doing it manually every week. Paste your week in, tell it your daily ceiling, and get a structured plan back as a clean artifact you can actually follow.
Frequently asked
Does it just lay out the schedule, or does it actually warn me when I'm going to crash?
It flags overcommitted days before it hands you the plan — and gives you specific swaps, not just a red flag. 'Thursday is 3 spoons over; moving the laundry to Friday light-rest day and dropping the tidying brings you in under budget' is the kind of output you get.
I don't know how many spoons my tasks cost. Can I still use this?
Yes. Tell it your daily ceiling and describe your tasks in plain terms. It assigns costs from a curated reference table and explains its reasoning. You can override any cost if your experience is different.
Will it push back if I try to ignore the buffer and cram more in?
It will — clearly, and without lecture. It'll show you what the overcommitted version looks like and what the risk is. If you still want to drop the buffer, you can, but it won't just quietly let you blow past your ceiling.
Can I just write my own ChatGPT prompt for this instead of paying for a skill?
You could try. But you'd need to replicate the spoon cost reference table, encode the 50% rule and PEM logic, handle compounding costs, and get it to output a clean usable artifact consistently. This has all of that built in and tested against real pacing scenarios.
Does this work in Claude and ChatGPT, or only one of them?
This is a Claude skill — it runs inside Claude.ai. It won't load in ChatGPT. You'll need a Claude account to use it.
Install
After purchase you'll get a license key. Then:
$ npx skilltree-network login # paste your license key