The first year after a loss is a series of firsts — the first birthday, holiday, anniversary, and a hundred ordinary moments that ambush you. You can't avoid the grief, but you can meet it prepared instead of blindsided. This maps the hard days ahead, gives you permission and options for each, grounding for the waves that come from nowhere, and ways to keep their memory close — so the year is met with tenderness and a plan.
The Year Of Firsts is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/the-year-of-firsts/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when asked how do I get through the holidays after a death, the first birthday without them, grief is hitting me in waves, or coping with the first year of loss. Produces a map of the anticipated hard days, keep/change/skip options for each, grounding for the ambush waves, ways to include their memory, and gentle markers for when grief needs more support.
The The Year Of Firsts Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 188,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/the-year-of-firsts curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/the-year-of-firsts/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/the-year-of-firsts/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/the-year-of-firsts/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/the-year-of-firsts/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\the-year-of-firsts\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/the-year-of-firsts/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. The Year Of Firsts is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{the-year-of-firsts-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {The Year Of Firsts [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/the-year-of-firsts/}
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