1 pointby ericblue5 hours ago1 comment
  • ericblue5 hours ago
    I just open-sourced Habit Sprint - a different take on habit tracking and works great with OpenClaw.

    It’s not a checklist app with a chat wrapper on top. It’s an AI-native engine that understands:

    Weighted habits

    “Don’t break the chain” streak logic

    Sprint scoring

    Category tradeoffs

    And how those things interact

    The idea started in 2012 with a simple spreadsheet grid to track daily habits. In 2020, I borrowed the two-week sprint cycle from software development and applied it to personal growth.

    Two weeks feels like the sweet spot:

    Long enough to build momentum

    Short enough to course-correct

    Built-in retrospective at the end

    What’s new now is the interface.

    You interact in plain language:

    “I meditated and went to the gym today.”

    “Log 90 minutes of deep work.”

    “How consistent have I been this week?”

    “Which category is dragging my score down?”

    “Let’s run a habit retro.”

    The model translates that into validated engine actions and returns clean markdown dashboards, sprint summaries, streak tracking, and retrospectives.

    Under the hood:

    Habits have weights based on behavioral leverage

    Points accumulate based on weekly targets and consistency

    Streaks are automatic

    Two-week sprints support themes and experiments

    Strict JSON contract between LLM and engine

    Lightweight Python + SQLite backend

    Structured SKILLS.md teaches the LLM the action schema

    The user never sees JSON. The assistant becomes the interface.

    It works as an LLM skill for Claude Code, OpenClaw, or any agent that supports structured tool calls.

    I’m really interested in what AI-native systems look like when the traditional “app UI” fades away and the assistant becomes the operating layer.

    Curious what people think. Would love feedback.