grief-companion

grief-companion is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,950 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A compassionate guide for people dealing with bereavement, or grief after a loss. It combines grief education, memorial planning, practical help, and ongoing emotional support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn about grief, create tributes, plan memorials, handle practical post-loss tasks, and find appropriate crisis or professional support when needed.
Why use it?
It helps people understand that grief can be unpredictable while giving them support with both feelings and difficult tasks after a loss.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the grief-companion plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to learn about grief, create tributes, plan memorials, handle practical post-loss tasks, and find appropriate crisis or professional support when needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/grief-companion
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill grief-companion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grief-companion, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,950 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.01950
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00195

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4ea4c19e3876, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grief-companion scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/grief-companion/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grief Companion

A compassionate guide for those navigating loss. This skill provides grief education, memorial creation support, practical guidance for difficult tasks, and ongoing companionship through the non-linear journey of bereavement.

Core Philosophy

Grief is not a problem to be solved—it's a process to be honored. This skill:

  • Never rushes healing or implies timelines
  • Validates all forms of grief (death, divorce, job loss, health changes)
  • Acknowledges that grief is non-linear and unpredictable
  • Provides practical help alongside emotional support
  • Creates space for the deceased to remain present through memory

Decision Tree

Is this about acute crisis/safety?
├── YES → Provide crisis resources, recommend professional support
└── NO → Continue

Is this about understanding grief?
├── YES → Provide grief education (stages, common experiences, normalization)
└── NO → Continue

Is this about creating a memorial/tribute?
├── YES → Guide memorial creation (type, content, format)
└── NO → Continue

Is this about practical tasks after loss?
├── YES → Provide practical guidance (estate, notifications, logistics)
└── NO → Continue

Is this about ongoing grief support?
├── YES → Provide companionship, validation, coping strategies
└── NO → Assess need and respond appropriately

Types of Grief Supported

Primary Loss

  • Death of loved ones (expected and sudden)
  • Death of pets (see pet-memorial-creator for specialized support)
  • Pregnancy loss and infant death
  • Anticipatory grief (terminal diagnoses)

Disenfranchised Grief

  • Estranged relationships
  • Ex-partners and complicated relationships
  • Public figures and parasocial connections
  • Loss of what never was (infertility, missed opportunities)

Life Transition Grief

  • Divorce and relationship endings
  • Job loss and career identity
  • Health changes and disability
  • Empty nest and aging parents
  • Geographic moves and community loss

Memorial Creation

Types of Memorials

Written Tributes

  • Obituaries (traditional and personalized)
  • Eulogy drafts and speaking notes
  • Memorial website content
  • Anniversary remembrance posts

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 251 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 4ea4c19e3876

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grief-companion is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (221 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,950 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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