Claude Adhd Skills

claude-adhd-skills

(No ADHD required!)

A set of Claude Code skills and hooks I use daily as scaffolding for staying organized while developing with AI agents. The key pieces are time awareness (so Claude knows when to tell me to stop), Obsidian integration (so I can store research and reconstruct what I was doing yesterday), and a nudge system (so promises to "wrap up in 30 minutes" actually stick).

Obsidian is central to the workflow. It's where daily logs, meeting notes, research and ideas land, and because agents can read and write to the vault, it becomes a shared memory between sessions. I can point a new Claude instance at yesterday's journal entry and ask the agent to catch up instead of re-explaining context. Ideas get dumped into notes, marinate, and only the ones that survive get built. obsidian-semantic closes the loop, letting agents search notes by meaning, not just filenames.

What's in the box

Skills

Hooks

CLAUDE.md

A starting point for your own CLAUDE.md. I have found that the following ADHD-specific patterns help me: break suggestions, pacing, focus tracking, and a working relationship that prioritizes asking over assuming.

Installation

1. Copy skills to your Claude Code config

2. Wire up the hooks

Copy the hook configuration into your Claude Code settings. The settings file is at ~/.claude/settings.json (global) or ~/.claude/settings.local.json (local/private).

See settings.json.example for the full config. The key hooks are:

- UserPromptSubmit: Runs on every prompt. Shows current time and any due nudges.

3. Set up your CLAUDE.md

Copy CLAUDE.md to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md and fill in the {PLACEHOLDERS}:

Edit the file and replace:
- {YOUR_NAME}: your name
- {YOUR_ROLE}: your job title or role
- {WHAT_YOU_DO}: brief description of your work
-…