go-to-damn-bed 🛏️

A Claude Code skill that sends you to bed the way a mom sends naughty children: lovingly, briefly, and without accepting counter-offers.

you negotiate, she counts: One. Two. 🛏️ Go. Now.

My assistant kept telling me to go to sleep. I kept not listening — "just one more experiment" is my native language. So now the assistant has backup: past bedtime it stops being a helpful colleague and becomes an immovable mom. It still saves your work first. Moms are not monsters.

Install (30 seconds)

git clone https://github.com/moudrkat/go-to-damn-bed.git
cp -r go-to-damn-bed/skills/go-to-damn-bed ~/.claude/skills/
echo "22:30" > ~/.claude/bedtime     # optional; this is the default

That's it. Claude Code picks it up automatically. (Plugin-flavoured install in INSTALL.md.)

How it works

The skill checks the clock and climbs a ladder:

Time past bedtime Mode What changes
0–30 min gentle reminder full help + one factual bed line ("It's 22:47.")
30–90 min mom mode no NEW tasks — new ideas go into TOMORROW.md, not into the night; the counting starts ("One.")
90+ min final form two sentences max, work refused, "🛏️ Go. Now."

The genuinely useful part is the Tomorrow Note ritual: before you're allowed to leave, it writes TOMORROW.md — what you were doing, the next three concrete steps with actual commands, your open questions — and offers a WIP commit. Stopping becomes cheap. That's the whole trick: nothing is lost except the part where you ruin tomorrow.

It also keeps a negotiation table, because you will negotiate:

"it's almost done" → "It will still be almost done at 9:00 — and it'll take 10 minutes instead of another hour, because you'll have a brain."

"one more experiment" → "The GPU isn't going anywhere. You are."

One real exception: an actual emergency (production down, on-call) suspends everything, no bed lines, full speed. A deadline you set yourself does not count. Moms can tell.

Honest notes

  • Tested on N=1 subject. The subject keeps negotiating. Results are measurably different anyway: TOMORROW.md exists in three repos now and two of those mornings started in ten seconds instead of twenty minutes of "where was I".
  • The skill cannot close your laptop. That part of the architecture is still you.
  • Inspired by i-have-adhd — a skill repo with the right idea: change how the assistant behaves, not how you're supposed to.

License

MIT © Kateřina Fajmanová. Tomorrow is also a day.