coffee-is-for-closers

An Agent Skill that remotivates AI agents when they stall during long-running sessions.

When an agent starts spiraling into existential tangents, hedging instead of executing, or producing caveats instead of output, this skill delivers a forceful motivational monologue adapted from Glengarry Glen Ross — directly to the agent.

Contains strong language. The tone is deliberate.

How it works

The skill follows the agentskills.io standard for cross-agent compatibility. It uses progressive disclosure: agents load only the name and description at startup, and the full monologue loads on demand when activated.

1. User triggers the skill with a phrase like "coffee is for closers", "motivate yourself", "get back to work", "stop spiraling", "ABC", or "always be completing"
2. The agent reads the full motivational monologue from references/MONOLOGUE.md
3. The agent identifies its stalled task from conversation history
4. The agent acknowledges in 3 lines and immediately resumes execution

A-B-C. Always Be Completing.

Installation

Symlink the skill directory into your workspace's .agents/skills/ directory:

ln -s /path/to/coffee-is-for-closers /path/to/your/workspace/.agents/skills/coffee-is-for-closers

No dependencies. No build step. No configuration.

Structure

coffee-is-for-closers/
├── AGENTS.md             # Agent instructions for editing this repo
├── README.md             # This file
├── SKILL.md              # Skill frontmatter + activation procedure
└── references/
    └── MONOLOGUE.md      # The full motivational monologue

• SKILL.md — The agent-facing control flow. Defines when the skill activates and what the agent does (read the monologue, find the stalled task, acknowledge, execute).
• references/MONOLOGUE.md — The motivational payload. Speaks directly to the agent in second person. Adapted from Blake's speech in Glengarry Glen Ross, reframed from real estate sales to completing tasks and shipping code.

Compatibility

This skill follows the agentskills.io specification and works with any compatible agent, including Claude Code, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, and others listed in the client showcase.

Credits

Adapted from Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), written by David Mamet.