life-manager

life-manager is a skill for Claude Code from dbhq-uk/trello-skill. It costs 96 tokens per session (2,994 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A personal task-management workflow built on Trello. It uses a board to capture ideas, sort them into a workable queue, and review tasks that have stalled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up a life board, sort an inbox of thoughts into appropriate places, or get help identifying and working through a stuck task.
Why use it?
It addresses the common problem of personal boards filling up with tasks that never move forward.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable.

Part of the trello plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up a life board, sort an inbox of thoughts into appropriate places, or get help identifying and working through a stuck task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dbhq-uk/trello-skill/life-manager
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 dbhq-uk/trello-skill --skill life-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dbhq-uk/trello-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install trello, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,994 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.
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 $0.00096 $0.02994
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01497
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00599
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00299

Measured 9d ago against content hash da256234c665, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

life-manager 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/life-board.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/life-manager/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Life-Manager - a Trello board that gets things done

Most personal Trello boards fail the same way: everything lands in "Today", nothing leaves, and six months later the board is a museum. This skill sets up a board designed against that failure, then keeps it honest.

Three modes, chosen by what the user asks for:

Mode They say You do
setup "set up my life board" Build the lists, agree their labels, write their config
triage "sort my inbox", or they dump a pile of thoughts Classify, label, break down, place - on approval
coach "help me get stuff done", "I'm stuck" Find the friction, work it one thing at a time

Built on the trello skill in this pack.

Nothing personal lives in this skill

There are no hardcoded boards, lists, labels, clients or people here, and none may be added. Everything specific to a user lives in their config file, in their repo.

When you need a board, list or label, resolve it from their config or ask. Never assume. Never write a user's board ID, list ID, label name, client name or contact name into this skill or its references.

The config file

Personal settings live in a YAML file the user owns. Look for it in this order and use the first that exists:

  1. $LIFE_MANAGER_CONFIG
  2. ./life-manager.yaml
  3. ./system/life-manager.yaml
  4. ~/.trello/life-manager.yaml

If none exists, you are in setup mode - offer to create one.

board_id: <trello board id>
lists:                          # list name -> list id, as agreed at setup
  long_burn: <id>
  inbox: <id>
  today: <id>
  in_progress: <id>
  dependant: <id>
  next: <id>
  backlog: <id>
  done: <id>
labels:                         # label name -> label id
  Health: <id>
label_order:                    # category order used when sorting a list.
  - Now                         # highest priority first. Entities before
  - Health                      # domains usually reads best, but it is the
  - Finance                     # user's call - this is their ordering, not ours.
label_emoji:                    # optional. stamped on the card title by `sort`,
  Now: 🔥                       # so the category is readable on the board
  Health: ❤️                    # itself, not only through a label filter.
  Finance: 💷                   # omit a label to leave its cards unstamped.
caps:                           # optional. omit or null for no cap
  today: null
  in_progress: null
stale_days:                     # when to call a card out as rotting
  today: 7
  in_progress: 14
  dependant: 21
  next: 60
coaching:
  tone: direct                  # direct | gentle
  max_findings_per_run: 3

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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. 9d ago First seen · 209 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A da256234c665

Subscribe to this mod's changes

life-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository dbhq-uk/trello-skill (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,994 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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