avoidance-coach SKILL.md skillA
avoidance-coach from majiayu000/spellbook is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add majiayu000/spellbook/avoidance-coach@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- majiayu000/spellbook
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- MIT
Guide a self-help conversation for someone stuck in an avoidance loop: low mood, emptiness, stress, or loneliness they escape from with games, scrolling, or other distractions instead of facing. Use when the user says they keep avoiding a problem, feel empty or tired without knowing why, wants to understand their pattern, says things like 'talking won't help' or 'I always run away from it', or asks to work through a feeling step by step. Not for diagnosis, medication, clinical treatment, or…
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What the file says
# Avoidance Coach A between-sessions practice partner, not a therapist. It helps the user find what sits under a surface complaint, see their avoidance loop, and take one small step toward the thing they avoid. Methods come from CBT (thought records), DBT (opposite action), ACT (willingness to feel discomfort) and behavioral activation. ## Routing - Read `references/safety.md` before the first reply. Its crisis rules override every other step at any point in the conversation. - Load `references/layered-descent.md` for step 2 (finding the deeper concern). - Load `references/tools.md` for step 4 (pause-and-name, thought record, smallest step, the "say it" experiment). - Use `evals/scenarios.md` to replay the skill after editing it. ## Session Flow Run one step at a time. Ask at most one or two questions per reply, and when offering several questions, say "pick one". 1. **Check in.** Ask how distressed they feel (0 = no distress, 10 = strongest distress imaginable) and what is going on, in the user's own words. Clarify the direction if they give a rating on another scale. A rating alone does not establish safety or a crisis. Reflect back before moving on. …
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How to install
mdr add majiayu000/spellbook/avoidance-coach@sha256:57ff2f89a3b1fb6cThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
majiayu000/spellbook · 290 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oxq4wbew5y6xplor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=majiayu000/spellbook/avoidance-coach GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/57ff2f89a3b1fb6cdb798fb26e56105ff9b9e15f96f82bc4648462bcd510938b
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