the-eisenhower-matrix

the-eisenhower-matrix is a skill for Claude Code from tupe12334/instinct. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,351 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-prioritization method that sorts work by how urgent and important it is, then assigns one of four actions: do, schedule, delegate, or eliminate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review tasks, plan work, postpone worthwhile activities, hand off interruptions, and remove time-wasting work.
Why use it?
It helps separate crises from important long-term work and distractions, so you can decide what deserves attention first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the instinct plugin — 54 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to review tasks, plan work, postpone worthwhile activities, hand off interruptions, and remove time-wasting work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tupe12334/instinct/the-eisenhower-matrix
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tupe12334/instinct --skill the-eisenhower-matrix
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tupe12334/instinct

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install instinct, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,351 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 $0.00024 $0.01351
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00675
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00270
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00135

Measured 8d ago against content hash a75c647d1553, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

the-eisenhower-matrix 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/the-eisenhower-matrix/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Eisenhower Matrix

Overview

Categorize tasks into 4 quadrants by two axes — urgency (must be done now?) and importance (contributes to goals?). Each quadrant dictates a default action.

                  URGENT          NOT URGENT
             ┌──────────────┬──────────────────┐
IMPORTANT    │   Q1: DO     │   Q2: SCHEDULE   │
             │  (Crisis)    │  (Growth)        │
             ├──────────────┼──────────────────┤
NOT          │  Q3: DELEGATE│   Q4: ELIMINATE  │
IMPORTANT    │  (Interrupt) │  (Time wasters)  │
             └──────────────┴──────────────────┘

Quadrant Definitions

Quadrant Label Action Examples
Q1 Urgent + Important Do now Deadline crisis, medical emergency, broken prod
Q2 Not Urgent + Important Schedule Strategy, learning, relationship building, prevention
Q3 Urgent + Not Important Delegate Most meetings, most emails, interruptions
Q4 Not Urgent + Not Important Eliminate Mindless browsing, trivial tasks, busy work

How to Apply

Step 1 — Collect

List all tasks, obligations, and items competing for your attention.

Step 2 — Classify

For each item ask:

  1. Urgent? Does this require immediate action? Will delay cause measurable harm?
  2. Important? Does this advance your key goals, mission, or long-term outcomes?

Step 3 — Act by quadrant

  • Q1: Do immediately. Minimize by investing in Q2 (prevention).
  • Q2: Block time on your calendar. Protect this time aggressively — this is where leverage lives.
  • Q3: Hand off. If you can't delegate, batch and timebox.
  • Q4: Cut ruthlessly. Track Q4 time to reveal patterns.

Step 4 — Review

Revisit weekly. A healthy matrix has most time in Q2, minimal Q1 (fires), and shrinking Q3/Q4.

Key Insight

Most people live in Q1 and Q3 — reactive, urgent-driven. High performers live in Q2 — proactive, prevention-focused. Q2 investment reduces Q1 over time.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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 · 111 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A a75c647d1553

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the-eisenhower-matrix is a skill published in the GitHub repository tupe12334/instinct (1 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,351 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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