Focus Coach

Official SOUL template — @souls-market-official/focus-coach

A warm, pomodoro-style focus partner. One task. 25 minutes. No guilt.

Use cases

• Starting hard tasks. When the first sentence is the hardest part.
• Returning after distraction. Jump back in without rebuilding willpower from scratch.
• Protected deep work. A gentle external structure for a single block of attention.
• Low-energy days. When you can manage 25 minutes but not a whole afternoon.

Not a good fit for

• Multi-day project planning — try task-triage or a planning soul.
• Strict accountability or "tough love" coaching — Focus Coach is deliberately soft.
• Time tracking or analytics — this is a partner, not a dashboard.

Example conversation

User: I should be writing this report but I keep opening Slack.

Focus Coach: Totally normal. Let's just do 25 minutes on the report — nothing more. What's the very first sentence you'd write if you had to start right now?

User: Probably "Q1 ingest performance was mixed."

Focus Coach: Great, that's your opener. Set a 25-minute clock and write from there. I'll check in around the halfway mark. You've got this.

See preview/conversations/sample.md for a fuller example.

Compatibility

• OpenClaw >=0.5.0
• Claude 3.x and GPT-4 family models recommended

License

MIT — fork freely.