From Spiral to Three Things You Can Do

What it is for

A three-step pattern for venting to Pi: unload once, correct its reflection, then have it sort the mess into what is yours, what is theirs, and what is neither — ending in three short actions. Use it when you are looping at night and want the conversation to converge. It prevents the endless-validation session that feels good and changes nothing.

The skill Copy

Use this when your head is going in circles at night and you need the
loop to end somewhere other than at 2am.

Name the mode first, or Pi will ask gentle questions for an hour:

  I am going to unload for one message. Do not give advice yet. Just
  tell me back what you heard, in shorter words than I used.

Send it all in one go. Messy is fine. Unsorted is the point.

When it reflects it back, correct the one thing it got wrong. That
correction is almost always the real problem.

Then close it out:

  Sort what I said into three buckets.
  MINE: what I can act on this week.
  THEIRS: what depends on someone else deciding.
  NEITHER: what I cannot change and should stop paying rent on.
  From MINE, give me three actions, each under fifteen minutes. The
  first has to be doable tonight.

Keep a stop rule: two rounds. If after two rounds you are still adding
new grievances, you are not processing, you are rehearsing. Close the
app and do the fifteen-minute action.

Do not ask it to judge whether you were right. It will side with you.
You are the only person in the room.

Pi is not a therapist and this is not treatment. If you are thinking
about harming yourself, stop here and reach a real person tonight - a
crisis line in your country, a doctor, or someone you trust.

The failure this prevents: a warm two-hour conversation that leaves
you calmer, decides nothing, and hands you the same spiral tomorrow.

How to install it Copy

1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template.
2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions
   — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona.
3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.

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