---
name: grayscale-phone-friction
description: "Use this Brali skill when the user's situation matches the bounded protocol \"Make Your Phone Less Visually Tempting with Grayscale\". If you want to spend less time on your phone, try switching the display to grayscale for a bounded trial. Treat it as friction against habitual use, not as a productivity, sleep, or mental-health upgrade. 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:grayscale-phone-friction"
  brali-canonical-url: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/grayscale-phone-friction/"
  brali-evidence-state: "reviewed"
  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/grayscale-phone-friction/skill.json"
  agent-skills-spec: "https://agentskills.io/specification"
---

# Make Your Phone Less Visually Tempting with Grayscale

## 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
If you want to spend less time on your phone, try switching the display to grayscale for a bounded trial. Treat it as friction against habitual use, not as a productivity, sleep, or mental-health upgrade.

## Protocol
Enable grayscale on your phone and leave the rest of your normal setup alone for a bounded trial. Use the phone when you actually need it; the point is not abstinence. Notice whether automatic checking becomes less attractive. If color is important for navigation, accessibility, work, photos, or another real task, switch color back on for that task instead of treating grayscale as a purity test.

## Check-in
Did my phone screen time or automatic checking change, and did I simply move the same distraction to another device?

## Evidence boundary
Evidence state: **reviewed**.
Last Brali review recorded: 2026-09-11.
Reviewed source attached to the canonical Brali record: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2026.1816095/full
Topics: Digital Attention, Environment Design

## 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/grayscale-phone-friction/
Machine-readable record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/grayscale-phone-friction/index.json
Skill verification record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/grayscale-phone-friction/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/