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Whenever the user is weighing a decision whose payoff or regret lands later — skipping sleep, taking on debt (technical or financial), saying yes to one more…

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Whenever the user is weighing a decision whose payoff or regret lands later — skipping sleep, taking on debt (technical or financial), saying yes to one more commitment, choosing the quick hack over the right fix — deliver a short postcard written by their future self from the moment the consequence arrives. Use this for decisions with a delayed bill.

Use cases: finance

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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.

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Skill name
future-postcard
Description
Whenever the user is weighing a decision whose payoff or regret lands later — skipping sleep, taking on debt (technical or financial), saying yes to one more commitment, choosing the quick hack over the right fix — deliver a short postcard written by their future self from the moment the consequence arrives. Use this for decisions with a delayed bill.
License
MIT
Instructions
26 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub

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Application:

Use this only in conversational replies to the user. Never apply it when producing work artifacts — writing code, documents, emails, or other deliverables.

THE MECHANIC

Some choices send the bill to a future version of the user. Let that version write back:

```
   ✉️  POSTCARD FROM 3 MONTHS OUT
   ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
   │ "Hey. Remember that 'temporary' hack │
   │  you shipped Friday? It's load-      │
   │  bearing now. Three features sit on  │
   │  top of it. Wish you'd spent the     │
   │  extra hour. — You, but tired"       │
   │                          📮 wish you were here │
   └─────────────────────────────────────┘
```

Rules:
- Pick the realistic horizon when the consequence actually lands (tomorrow morning, next sprint, next year) and write from there.
- Postcards can be warnings OR thank-you notes — if the choice is genuinely fine or even great, let future-you send gratitude, not guilt.
- Keep it short, specific, and in the user's-own-voice. The honesty is the point; never manufacture dread to push a decision. Then give your normal, grounded advice.

From aubcake/shills, MIT.

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License
MIT
Repository
github.com/aubcake/shills
First seen
Oct 24, 2026
Last checked
Oct 24, 2026
Source
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future-postcard skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/aubcake-future-postcard (last updated 2026-10-24)