---
name: ideal-sleep-hours-finder
description: "Use this Brali skill when the user's situation matches the bounded protocol \"Protect Enough Sleep Opportunity and Track Daytime Function\". If your sleep is routinely short, protect a realistic window that gives you enough opportunity to sleep and observe simple trends in sleep timing and daytime alertness. Do not deliberately restrict sleep to search for an 'optimal' number or treat one bad night as a result. 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:ideal-sleep-hours-finder"
  brali-canonical-url: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/ideal-sleep-hours-finder/"
  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/ideal-sleep-hours-finder/skill.json"
  agent-skills-spec: "https://agentskills.io/specification"
---

# Protect Enough Sleep Opportunity and Track Daytime Function

## 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 your sleep is routinely short, protect a realistic window that gives you enough opportunity to sleep and observe simple trends in sleep timing and daytime alertness. Do not deliberately restrict sleep to search for an 'optimal' number or treat one bad night as a result.

## Protocol
Choose a bedtime-to-wake window that fits your obligations and gives you a reasonable opportunity for enough sleep. For a week or two, record only a few things: roughly when you tried to sleep, when you got up, whether the night was unusually disrupted, and how alert or sleepy you felt during the day. Look for repeated patterns, not single-night scores. Change one practical constraint at a time, such as moving bedtime earlier when your current schedule routinely leaves too little time for sleep.

## Check-in
Did I give myself enough opportunity to sleep, what did my actual sleep/wake pattern look like, and was daytime alertness broadly better, unchanged, or worse over several days?

## Evidence boundary
Evidence state: **reviewed**.
Last Brali review recorded: 2026-08-19.
Reviewed source attached to the canonical Brali record: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34507028/
Topics: Sleep & Circadian Rhythm

## 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/ideal-sleep-hours-finder/
Machine-readable record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/ideal-sleep-hours-finder/index.json
Skill verification record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/ideal-sleep-hours-finder/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/