Tycana Productivity

SkillProductivity

Persistent task management and productivity intelligence via MCP. Captures tasks from conversation, plans your day, tracks patterns, and gives personalized recommendations that improve over time.

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Tycana Productivity skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by davepoon/buildwithclaude in plugins/all-skills/skills/tycana/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Tycana gives Claude persistent memory about your work across conversations. Connect once via MCP, and every session includes your tasks, projects, deadlines, blockers, and computed intelligence from your patterns.

Homepage: tycana.com Getting started: tycana.com/getting-started

Prerequisites

  • Tycana MCP server connected at https://app.tycana.com/mcp (OAuth 2.1)
  • Or install the Tycana Claude plugin: /plugin install tycana

Available Tools

ToolPurpose
captureCreate tasks from conversation context
completeMark items done with outcome and notes
plan_dayGenerate prioritized daily plan
what_nextEnergy-aware next action recommendation
reviewProgress summary with pattern analysis
get_contextLoad current work context
searchFind items by keyword or filter
list_itemsList items with status/project filters
get_itemGet full detail on a specific item
update_itemModify item properties
relate_itemsCreate blocking/dependency relationships
rememberStore personal preferences and constraints
cleanup_projectArchive completed items in a project
delete_itemRemove an item

Example Prompts

"Plan my day"
"Remind me to update the deployment docs before Friday"
"What should I work on next? I have about an hour and low energy"
"How's the infrastructure project going?"
"Review my week"
"Brain dump — I've got a bunch of things rattling around"

Key Features

  • Capture from conversation — mention something you need to do and it's captured with effort, energy, and project inferred from context
  • Computed intelligence — velocity tracking, slip detection, effort calibration that improves over time
  • Energy-aware recommendations — factors in your current energy level for task suggestions
  • Project graph — items connect via blocking chains and dependencies, not flat lists

Signals

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