deep-work

v2.11.2

Plan a deep work day the Cal Newport way: time-block planning + shallow-work budgeting + focus-session tracking. Classifies every task deep vs shallow (recent-graduate heuristic, explicit override wins), audits the shallow share against a 30-50% budget with a WITHIN-BUDGET / OVER-BUDGET verdict, then builds an energy-first time-blocked day — deep blocks of at least 90 minutes in the earliest hours, a hard 4-hour deep ceiling the planner refuses to exceed, shallow work batched into at most two windows, 10-minute attention-residue buffers, a fixed lunch, and a hard stop that never silently extends. A JSON-backed focus-session logger tracks weekly deep hours vs target and consecutive-day streaks, and an end-of-day shutdown ritual closes every open loop. Deterministic stdlib scripts do the arithmetic; refusals (exit 2) name exactly what to cut or defer.

Claude Code1 skill

by Alireza RezvaniMIT24.2kupdated 10 hours ago

Source

$ git clone https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Clone the source, then follow the repository's marketplace instructions for your runtime. The plugin root is productivity/deep-work/ inside the repository.

Layout

productivity/deep-work/

├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/deep-work/SKILL.md

Skills1

deep-workskills/deep-work/SKILL.md

Use when someone wants to plan a deep work day, time-block their calendar or task list, budget or cut shallow work, protect focus hours, track deep-work sessions and streaks, run an end-of-day shutdown ritual, or says "/deep-work" or "/time-block". Classifies tasks deep vs shallow, builds an energy-first time-blocked schedule that refuses deep demand past the 4-hour ceiling, batches shallow work into at most two windows, and logs focus sessions against a weekly target.

Manifests1

productivity/deep-work/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "deep-work",
  "description": "Plan a deep work day the Cal Newport way: time-block planning + shallow-work budgeting + focus-session tracking. Classifies every task deep vs shallow (recent-graduate heuristic, explicit override wins), audits the shallow share against a 30-50% budget with a WITHIN-BUDGET / OVER-BUDGET verdict, then builds an energy-first time-blocked day — deep blocks of at least 90 minutes in the earliest hours, a hard 4-hour deep ceiling the planner refuses to exceed, shallow work batched into at most two windows, 10-minute attention-residue buffers, a fixed lunch, and a hard stop that never silently extends. A JSON-backed focus-session logger tracks weekly deep hours vs target and consecutive-day streaks, and an end-of-day shutdown ritual closes every open loop. Deterministic stdlib scripts do the arithmetic; refusals (exit 2) name exactly what to cut or defer.",
  "version": "2.11.2",
  "author": {
    "name": "Alireza Rezvani",
    "url": "https://alirezarezvani.com"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/main/productivity/deep-work",
  "repository": "https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills",
  "license": "MIT",
  "skills": [
    "./skills/deep-work"
  ],
  "source": {
    "build_pattern": "Path-B method skill — Cal Newport time-block discipline preserved + deterministic scheduling/auditing/logging tooling added",
    "distinct_from": "productivity/andreessen (the 3x5 card picks WHAT to do today; deep-work plans WHEN and HOW with attention protected — run the card first, then block the day here); project-management capacity planning (team-level capacity and sprint math; this is one person's attention across one day and one week)"
  }
}