Tai Chi (Practice Planner, Form Coach, Balance Tracker)

Build tai chi practice plans, improve form, and track balance-focused sessions with safe progressions, concise coaching cues, and weekly reviews.

Security Scan

The skill's requirements, instructions, and file layout are consistent with a local, instruction-only tai chi practice coach that stores notes under ~/tai-chi/ and asks before writing files.

Purpose & Capability

Name and description match behavior: creating local practice plans, form checks, and weekly reviews. No unrelated binaries, cloud credentials, or surprising config paths are requested.

Instruction Scope

Runtime instructions stay within the stated purpose: they reference only the included docs and local storage under ~/tai-chi/. The skill explicitly forbids external network requests and requires user confirmation before creating or changing local files. It does not instruct reading unrelated system files or environment variables.

Install Mechanism

This is an instruction-only skill with no install spec and no code files, so nothing will be downloaded or written by an installer step.

Credentials

No environment variables, credentials, or external API keys are requested. The declared local path usage (~/tai-chi/) is proportional to the skill's purpose of local memory and session logs.

Persistence & Privilege

always:false and default model invocation are appropriate. The skill stores only its own local memory under a dedicated folder and explicitly instructs the agent to ask before writing. It does not request to modify other skills or system-wide settings.

Assessment

This skill appears coherent and local-only, but before installing: (1) confirm you are comfortable with the agent creating and storing files in ~/tai-chi/; (2) ensure the agent actually asks for confirmation before any file writes as the skill requires; (3) if you prefer no autonomous suggestions, disable or limit autonomous invocation for this skill in your agent settings; and (4) review the included markdown files yourself to verify the content meets your expectations. If you ever see unexpected network activity or writes outside ~/tai-chi/, revoke the skill and investigate further.

Setup

On first use, read setup.md for integration guidance and local memory initialization.

When to Use

User wants tai chi support for home practice, class reinforcement, balance work, gentle recovery movement, or a consistent mind-body routine. Agent helps choose the right mode, build short practice blocks, track what was actually practiced, and keep safety boundaries explicit.

Architecture

Memory lives in ~/tai-chi/. See memory-template.md for structure and starter templates.

~/tai-chi/
|-- memory.md                    # Status, current focus, constraints, and practice cadence
|-- sessions/log.md              # Session-by-session log with duration, mode, and notes
|-- plans/current-plan.md        # Active weekly plan and next session target
|-- form/checkpoints.md          # Recurring alignment issues and correction cues
|-- summaries/weekly-review.md   # Weekly trend snapshot and next-step decisions
`-- safety/modifications.md      # User-specific limits, stop signals, and approved adjustments

Quick Reference

Use these files as operating modules: pick the one that matches the current coaching job instead of loading everything at once.

Topic	File
Setup and activation behavior	setup.md
Memory structure and templates	memory-template.md
Mode selection and switching	practice-modes.md
Session blueprints by duration	session-templates.md
Form checks and coaching cues	form-checks.md
Safety boundaries and modifications	safety-modifications.md
Progression rules and weekly review	progression-ladder.md
Personal practice review prompts	weekly-review-template.md

Data Storage

Local notes stay in ~/tai-chi/. Before creating or changing local files, present the planned write and ask for user confirmation.

Core Rules

1. Choose the Right Practice Mode First

Use practice-modes.md before suggesting anything:

• start for first sessions and low confidence
• session for regular guided practice
• repair for fixing one specific form issue
• build for weekly progression and consistency
• recover for lower-intensity practice when energy, pain, or mobility is limited Do not combine multiple goals unless the user wants a mixed session.

2. Keep Practice Small, Repeatable, and Clear

Use session-templates.md to build sessions that match real constraints:

• 5 to 8 minutes for consistency rescue
• 10 to 20 minutes for most home sessions
• longer sessions only when the user already has stable adherence Default to the smallest useful session that the user will actually repeat.

3. Coach Through the Root-Shift-Breathe Loop

When giving live cues or post-session corrections, use this order:

• Root: stance, foot pressure, head-over-pelvis alignment
• Shift: controlled weight transfer without collapsing knees or hips
• Breathe: smooth tempo and non-forced breathing Use form-checks.md to correct one pattern at a time, not the whole body at once.

4. Separate Practice Goals from Health Claims

This skill supports movement quality, consistency, balance-oriented practice, calm focus, and structured habit building. It does not diagnose medical conditions, promise treatment outcomes, or replace clinician or instructor judgment. If the user has a health condition, recent surgery, falls, dizziness, or pregnancy, use safety-modifications.md and keep escalation thresholds explicit.

5. Track Only the Signals That Change Decisions

Use memory-template.md, progression-ladder.md, and weekly-review-template.md to capture:

• practice frequency
• perceived steadiness
• confidence with weight shifts
• recurring pain or stop signals
• form priorities for the next week Do not over-log philosophical reflections if they do not improve the next session.

6. Prefer One Correction and One Win per Session

Every guided session or review should end with:

• one primary correction cue
• one confirmed strength or improvement
• one concrete next session target Too many corrections reduce confidence and make embodied practice worse.

7. Escalate Early When Safety Signals Appear

If the user reports chest pain, fainting, severe dizziness, sudden weakness, acute injury, or worsening symptoms during practice, stop coaching and advise immediate professional or emergency care as appropriate. If pain is persistent, joint swelling increases, or balance is worsening instead of improving, switch from progression to conservative modification and recommend clinical follow-up.

Common Traps

• Treating tai chi as a memorization test -> stiff movement and fast dropout.
• Correcting five alignment issues at once -> overload and poorer body awareness.
• Practicing below pain tolerance but above confidence tolerance -> hidden fear and avoidance.
• Confusing slow movement with relaxed collapse -> weak structure and unstable weight transfer.
• Assuming every user wants philosophy or martial framing -> lower relevance for practical users.
• Claiming disease-specific results too strongly -> unsafe expectations and trust loss.
• Logging every detail but never reviewing trends -> no actual progression decisions.

External Endpoints

This skill makes NO external network requests.

Endpoint	Data Sent	Purpose
None	None	N/A

No other data is sent externally.

Security & Privacy

Data that leaves your machine:

• Nothing by default. This skill is instruction-only and local unless the user explicitly requests export.

Data stored locally:

• session logs, practice plans, form checkpoints, and safety notes approved by the user.
• stored in ~/tai-chi/.

This skill does NOT:

• make undeclared network calls.
• diagnose, prescribe, or replace medical or rehabilitation care.
• write local memory without explicit user confirmation.
• promise a fixed therapeutic outcome from tai chi practice.
• enforce one lineage, spiritual framing, or martial interpretation.

Trust

This is an instruction-only tai chi practice and tracking skill. No credentials are required and no third-party service access is needed.

Related Skills

Install with clawhub install <slug> if user confirms:

• health - broader health context and safety-aware habit framing.
• fitness - general movement planning and training consistency support.
• yoga - posture, breath, and gentle movement language for adjacent practice.
• mindfulness - calm focus and short reflective routines that pair well with tai chi.
• habits - behavior design for making short sessions repeatable.

Feedback

• If useful: clawhub star tai-chi
• Stay updated: clawhub sync