---
name: 5-minute-meditation-habit-tracker
description: "Use this Brali skill when the user's situation matches the bounded protocol \"Try a Short Breath Meditation\". Sit somewhere safe, let your breathing stay natural, notice when attention wanders, and bring it back. If starting is the hard part, you can attach the practice to a stable daily routine. The cue is an implementation option, not a proven adherence hack, and five minutes is still a convenient container rather than a therapeutic dose. 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:5-minute-meditation-habit-tracker"
  brali-canonical-url: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/5-minute-meditation-habit-tracker/"
  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/5-minute-meditation-habit-tracker/skill.json"
  agent-skills-spec: "https://agentskills.io/specification"
---

# Try a Short Breath Meditation

## 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
Sit somewhere safe, let your breathing stay natural, notice when attention wanders, and bring it back. If starting is the hard part, you can attach the practice to a stable daily routine. The cue is an implementation option, not a proven adherence hack, and five minutes is still a convenient container rather than a therapeutic dose.

## Protocol
Sit somewhere comfortable and safe. Let breathing stay natural. Notice the sensations of breathing; when attention drifts into plans, memories, sounds or commentary, notice that and return to the breath without grading yourself. Use five minutes only if it is a convenient starting container. If initiation is the problem, choose one recurring non-safety-critical cue — for example after closing the laptop for lunch or after finishing your evening hygiene — and let that cue mean 'try the short practice now.' After several attempts, keep the cue only if it reduces friction without making the practice annoying or compulsory.

## Check-in
Did I notice attention wandering and return without turning it into a fight? If I used a routine cue, did it actually make starting easier? Was the practice useful, neutral or uncomfortable? Would another wellbeing practice fit me better today?

## Evidence boundary
Evidence state: **reviewed**.
Last Brali review recorded: 2026-08-18.
Reviewed source attached to the canonical Brali record: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13372293/
Topics: Everyday Health Basics

## 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/5-minute-meditation-habit-tracker/
Machine-readable record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/5-minute-meditation-habit-tracker/index.json
Skill verification record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/5-minute-meditation-habit-tracker/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/