Brali Agent Skill · reviewed · usable

Move Caffeine Earlier When Sleep Matters

If caffeine may be reaching into the night, move the last dose earlier and reduce large late-day doses. A 2025 randomized crossover trial found that a single 400 mg dose disrupted several sleep measures even when taken many hours before bed; a small 100 mg dose did not show a significant effect at the tested timings. That is a reason to be dose-aware, not a license for one universal cutoff.

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Portable instruction

What the agent should do

For one or two weeks, note the time and rough amount of your last caffeine, your bedtime, and whether sleep onset, overnight restfulness, and next-day sleepiness are broadly better or worse. Start by moving the last large dose earlier or reducing it; do not deliberately take caffeine late just to test your tolerance.

Check-in

When was my last caffeine, roughly how much was it, and did sleep and next-day alertness look better, worse, or unchanged across several days?

Install

One portable file, host-specific location.

Inspect SKILL.md first. The evidence state and skill mode are part of the contract.

Install for normal use.

Claude Code

Drop into a skill folder

Personal: ~/.claude/skills/stop-caffeine-after-lunch/SKILL.md
Project: .claude/skills/stop-caffeine-after-lunch/SKILL.md

Claude Agent Skills docs

Hermes Agent

Install directly from this URL

hermes skills install https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/stop-caffeine-after-lunch/SKILL.md

Hermes skills docs

OpenClaw

Place in a discovered skill root

Workspace: <workspace>/skills/stop-caffeine-after-lunch/SKILL.md
Global: ~/.openclaw/skills/stop-caffeine-after-lunch/SKILL.md

OpenClaw skills docs

Brali verification

Coverage and trust state are checked together.

Canonical ID: brali:stop-caffeine-after-lunch
Evidence state: reviewed
Skill mode: usable
Recommendation eligible: yes
SHA-256: 5aff0bac24aa67c474427f60789f1c6dbc8b7c806c2f428290efa22bc812de7c

Brali CI verified. This means identity, state, mode, provenance and file integrity matched the generated corpus. It is not third-party vendor endorsement.

Why every hack gets a skill

Brali keeps a one-to-one machine surface: one hack record, one stable skill identity. Trust state determines what the skill is allowed to do.

License

Original Brali knowledge is available for non-commercial reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Keep attribution, canonical record link, evidence state and skill mode.