s4h-mindset-flow

s4h-mindset-flow is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 138 tokens per session (2,568 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A focus framework based on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s research on flow, the state of deep absorption in challenging work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose why you cannot focus and redesign a task so its goals, feedback, and challenge better support deep work.
Why use it?
It helps explain distraction, boredom, or anxiety by checking whether the work has clear goals, quick feedback, and a suitable level of difficulty.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the skills-for-humanity plugin — 197 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to diagnose why you cannot focus and redesign a task so its goals, feedback, and challenge better support deep work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-mindset-flow
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-mindset-flow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-for-humanity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 138 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,568 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 $0.00138 $0.02568
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.01284
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00257

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3108f28509b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-mindset-flow 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.

skills/s4h-mindset-flow/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mindset — Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi spent decades studying optimal experience — the states in which people report being most alive, most capable, most fully engaged. He named the phenomenon flow: a state of complete absorption in a challenging activity where action and awareness merge, self-consciousness drops, time distorts, and the activity becomes intrinsically rewarding.

The most important finding from this research is structural: flow is not a mood. It cannot be summoned by wanting it. It occurs when specific conditions are met, and it can be reliably engineered by creating those conditions. The failure to experience flow is therefore not a personal failing — it is almost always a design problem.

The three non-negotiable conditions:

  1. Clear goals — you know what you're trying to do in the next moment
  2. Immediate feedback — you can tell whether you're succeeding or failing as you go
  3. Challenge/skill balance — the activity is neither significantly easier nor significantly harder than your current capability

When all three are present, flow is available. When any one is absent, it is not.


Your Process

Step 1: Identify the Target Activity Name the specific activity you want to flow in. Not "work" — that is too large. "Writing the technical design document for the API migration." "Practicing the Bach cello suite." "Writing the first draft of the chapter." Flow is always flow in something specific.

Framing check: Confirm the specific activity before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual activity and its key parameters (what it is, roughly how long/frequent, and what you already know about the obstacle) — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the specific activity and situation]. Is that right?"
  • Header: "Framing"
  • Options:
    • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
    • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
    • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 lines

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 · 191 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A 3108f28509b7

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s4h-mindset-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 2,568 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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