Timebox

Timebox is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by transcendr in slopware-skills.

26 stars1 forkson transcendr/slopware-skillsAdded 2026/08/11+39% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/08

agent-pluginsagent-skillsai-agentsai-coding-agentclaude-codeclaude-code-pluginsclaude-skillscodexcodex-skillsdeveloper-toolsminimum-sufficient-workmswopenai-codexslopware

Install in seconds

Install Timebox

Copy Timebox into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/transcendr/slopware-skills/tree/main/plugins/timebox/skills/timebox ~/.claude/skills/timebox

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/transcendr/slopware-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/timebox/skills/timebox/SKILL.md in transcendr/slopware-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/timebox
Collection: One of 2 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Timebox does

Enforces available work time (AWT) and closeout grace period (CGP) windows with fixed deadlines and convergence checkpoints. Use when timeboxing is explicitly requested or required by policy.

Timebox is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Timebox comes from a repository tagged agent-plugins, agent-skills, ai-agents, ai-coding-agent and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Timebox: AWT/CGP Execution

Timeboxing is an outer time and convergence envelope around authorized work. It does not add scope or replace the task's acceptance criteria.

AWT is the primary Available Work Time. Plan substantive work, verification, organization, and delivery inside it. CGP is a shorter Closeout Grace Period for an already-converged deliverable, an unexpectedly delayed final check, narrow closeout organization, or communicating the result. CGP is never a second work window.

Activate only with authority

Use this protocol only when one of these conditions supplies authority:

The requester explicitly asks for timeboxing.
The requester supplies an AWT/CGP pair or names AWT or CGP.
An applicable project policy requires the protocol.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Timebox

What else does transcendr publish alongside Timebox?
Timebox is one of 2 skills that DirSkills catalogs from transcendr/slopware-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include MSW Kernel. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Timebox does, and is maintained by transcendr in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the transcendr/slopware-skills page.
How does Timebox compare to other Quality skills?
Timebox ranks #1320 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Timebox against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.