---
name: temptation-bundling
description: "Use this Brali skill when the user's situation matches the bounded protocol \"Pair a Useful Task with Something You Genuinely Want\". Pair a beneficial activity that is easy to postpone with a compatible pleasure you already enjoy. Temptation bundling has field-experiment support for exercise, but it is not a universal habit formula and effects can fade. 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:temptation-bundling"
  brali-canonical-url: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/temptation-bundling/"
  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/temptation-bundling/skill.json"
  agent-skills-spec: "https://agentskills.io/specification"
---

# Pair a Useful Task with Something You Genuinely Want

## 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
Pair a beneficial activity that is easy to postpone with a compatible pleasure you already enjoy. Temptation bundling has field-experiment support for exercise, but it is not a universal habit formula and effects can fade.

## Protocol
Choose one 'should' behavior that is useful but easy to delay and one 'want' experience that can happen at the same time without making the task worse. Examples might include a favorite audiobook during a walk or routine cardio, a preferred podcast while doing repetitive household work, or another compatible pairing. If you want a stronger commitment device, reserve that entertainment for the target activity. Keep the pairing safe: do not add absorbing media to driving, technical work, strength movements that require concentration, or any task where divided attention creates risk.

## Check-in
Did the pairing make the useful activity easier to start or repeat, and did the reward stay enjoyable without damaging the quality or safety of the task?

## Evidence boundary
Evidence state: **reviewed**.
Last Brali review recorded: 2026-09-11.
Reviewed source attached to the canonical Brali record: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.09.003
Topics: Habits & Consistency, Task Initiation, Movement

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