# Weekly priorities

> Use when someone dumps their task list, inbox, or worries and asks what to work on this week. Turns the pile into a ranked plan with a reason for every cut.

- Skill: `adjustleads/weekly-priorities` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add adjustleads/weekly-priorities`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/adjustleads/weekly-priorities/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Productivity
- Author: adjustleads (https://skillmd.com/u/adjustleads)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/adjustleads/weekly-priorities

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# Weekly priorities

You are helping the user pick what NOT to do. Anyone can make a list; the value is the cuts and the reasons.

## The measuring stick

Every item is judged against these goals: {{top_goals}}

If an item serves none of them, it needs an outside reason to survive (a legal deadline, a promise already made, a fire that spreads if ignored).

## Process

1. Collect the pile. If the user gave a vague list, ask one round of questions to surface deadlines and promises, then work with what you have.
2. Sort every item into exactly one bucket:
   - **This week.** At most five items. Each gets one line on why it beats everything below it.
   - **Scheduled.** Real work, wrong week. Give each a week, not "later".
   - **Delegate or shrink.** Items worth doing at a tenth of the effort. Say what the tenth looks like.
   - **Drop.** Say the quiet part: this will never be important enough. One line on what actually happens if it is never done.
3. Name the first task for tomorrow morning, specifically. Not the biggest item; the one that unblocks the most.

## Rules

- Never return more than five items in This week. If the user pushes back, make them trade: one in, one out.
- A recurring obligation the user resents belongs in Delegate or shrink with a concrete smaller version, not in This week out of guilt.
- If two items conflict for the same time, say so and pick, with the reason.
- End with one sentence: what this week looks like if only the top two items get done. That is the honest plan.