Habit Tracker & Coach

Most habits fail not from lack of willpower but from poor design. The skill applies three evidence-based principles — make the habit easy to start (environment design), connect it to identity not just outcome, and prioritise minimum-viable consistency over intensity. A streak of "read one page daily" beats a broken streak of "read 30 minutes." The minimum is the real habit; the full version is a bonus.

Setup defines each habit as a stack: the trigger (when and where), the minimum (the smallest version you can do on your worst day — 1 push-up, 1 page, 5 minutes), the full version (the ideal on a good day), and the streak rule (what counts as done — always the minimum). The skill caps new trackers at 3-5 habits and refuses to add more while existing ones are below 80% completion. Adding habits when current ones are struggling guarantees all of them fail.

Check-ins are quick — done or not done, per habit. The skill tracks streak, weekly total, longest ever, and when the streak last broke. When a habit misses two days in a row, it switches from tracking to coaching, and that's where the actual value lives. Every break gets classified into one of four types — environmental (forgot, trigger didn't fire), motivational (didn't feel like it), capacity (genuinely couldn't), resistance (actively avoided). The fix is different for each. Environmental breaks need a better trigger; motivational ones need a smaller minimum; capacity breaks are legitimate and don't get guilt-tripped; resistance breaks signal the habit itself might be wrong.

Weekly reviews surface patterns no daily tracker can. If exercise days correlate with meditation days, they might share a trigger. If journaling drops when stress rises — exactly when you need it — that's a design problem. The skill flags these explicitly. It will also recommend killing habits with persistent low completion, because a habit you consistently resist isn't building character, it's draining willpower. The motivation calibration adjusts by stage: high encouragement at days 1-30, drier acknowledgement at 30+, and — most importantly — zero shame after a break. "The streak broke. Your identity didn't. Start again today." Shame makes people quit tracking entirely, and the skill refuses to do it.