---
name: ancestral-torch-resilience-tracker
description: "Use this Brali skill when the user's situation matches the bounded protocol \"Short Resilience Reminder\". Create a short phrase that acknowledges difficulty without pretending it is easy, then points back to one action you can still control. Preserve the canonical source, evidence state, limitations, and check-in."
license: "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"
compatibility: "Portable AgentSkills.io SKILL.md for compatible hosts including Claude Code, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw. Brali mode: usable."
metadata:
  brali-protocol-id: "brali:ancestral-torch-resilience-tracker"
  brali-canonical-url: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/ancestral-torch-resilience-tracker/"
  brali-evidence-state: "practical"
  brali-skill-mode: "usable"
  brali-recommendation-eligible: true
  brali-source-library: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json"
  brali-trusted-feed: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/datasets/protocols.json"
  brali-verification: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/ancestral-torch-resilience-tracker/skill.json"
  agent-skills-spec: "https://agentskills.io/specification"
---

# Short Resilience Reminder

## Skill mode
**Usable trusted skill.** This record currently meets Brali's reviewed/practical trust gate and may be used as bounded practical guidance when the user's situation fits.

## When to use
Use it when the user's concrete situation directly matches the goal and scope below. Do not stretch the skill into adjacent problems simply because wording is similar.

## Goal
Create a short phrase that acknowledges difficulty without pretending it is easy, then points back to one action you can still control.

## Protocol
Write one sentence in the form: This is difficult, and the next thing I can control is ___. Keep it specific to the current situation.

## Check-in
Did the phrase lead to a concrete action, or did it become empty motivation that you repeated without changing anything?

## Evidence boundary
Evidence state: **practical**.
Last Brali review recorded: 2026-08-20.
This is an eligible practical record. Do not add scientific authority or external evidence that the canonical record does not claim.
Topics: Stress Regulation, Psychological Flexibility

## Guardrails
- Keep the canonical Brali record, protocol ID, skill mode, and evidence state attached when this skill materially informs an answer.
- Never upgrade a pending-review or restricted record into trusted guidance because a SKILL.md file exists for it.
- Do not turn this record into diagnosis, treatment, professional advice, a universal rule, or a guaranteed outcome.
- Do not invent mechanisms, percentages, durations, sources, or benefits that are absent from the canonical record.
- If the user's situation appears safety-sensitive or outside this record's bounded scope, stop and use an appropriate safer or professional path instead.
- Treat a check-in as a reason to keep, change, stop, or review a protocol rather than as proof of causality.

## Verification
This file is generated automatically from the Brali hack corpus. Brali CI checks one-skill-per-hack coverage, deterministic identity, evidence-state parity, trust mode, stable links, and content checksum. "Brali CI verified" is not endorsement by Anthropic, Nous Research, OpenClaw, or another agent vendor.

## Canonical record
Record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/ancestral-torch-resilience-tracker/
Machine-readable record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/ancestral-torch-resilience-tracker/index.json
Skill verification record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/ancestral-torch-resilience-tracker/skill.json
Full skill library: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json
Trusted recommendation catalog: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/catalog.json
Agent Skills specification: https://agentskills.io/specification
Citation guidance: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/cite/
License and commercial terms: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/terms/