habitica-prioritize 0.1.12

Rank Habitica todos using a pairwise prioritization matrix

⚔️ habitica-prioritize

A Claude Code skill that ranks your Habitica todos using a pairwise prioritization matrix — the same method described in this video.

Instead of staring at a long list trying to figure out what matters most, you compare tasks two at a time. The item that wins the most head-to-head battles rises to the top. It's like a tournament bracket for your todo list. 🏆

⚙️ How it works

1. 🔍 Fetches your incomplete Habitica todos (optionally filtered by tag)
2. ⚔️ Walks you through every pair: "Which is higher priority?"
3. 📊 Tallies wins and produces a definitive ranked list
4. 💾 Saves results so future runs can insert new tasks without re-doing all comparisons — or re-prioritize everything from scratch

📦 Installation

bunx skills add mikedfunk/habitica-prioritize -g

Or with npx:

npx skills add mikedfunk/habitica-prioritize -g

🔑 Requirements

You'll need a Habitica account. Set these environment variables (e.g. in ~/.zshrc):

export HABITICA_USER_ID=your-user-id
export HABITICA_API_TOKEN=your-api-token

Find these in Habitica under Settings → API.

🚀 Usage

Full ranking (first time, or periodic re-rank)

uv run habitica-prioritize

You'll be prompted to choose which tags to filter by:

🏷️  Available tags:
  • Personal
  • Urgent
  • Work
  ...

Filter by tags (comma-separated, or press Enter for no filter): Work

You can also pass tags directly as CLI arguments to skip the prompt:

# Single tag
uv run habitica-prioritize --tags Work

# Multiple tags (todos must match ALL specified tags)
uv run habitica-prioritize --tags Work Urgent

# No filter — rank all incomplete todos
uv run habitica-prioritize --tags

Optionally limit to top N items manually:

uv run habitica-prioritize --tags Work --limit 10

Or let the script handle it — if you have enough tasks that a full ranking would exceed 100 comparisons (more than 14 items), you'll be warned and offered an automatic trim:

🚨 Yikes! 35 items = 595 comparisons — that's a marathon, not a sprint! 😅
💡 Limiting to the top 14 items would give you a breezy 91 comparisons instead.
✂️  Trim to top 14 items? (Y/N):

🆕 When new tasks are found (K/R prompt)

When a saved ranking exists and new todos are detected, the script asks:

🆕 2 new challenger(s) detected! 5 veterans already ranked.
Keep existing priorities (K) or re-prioritize everything from scratch (R)? (K/R):

• K (keep) — compares each new item against every existing item only. Existing-vs-existing comparisons are skipped, preserving the order you already established.
• R (re-rank) — discards the saved ranking and runs a full pairwise comparison of all items from scratch.

For example, if existing tasks A and B are ranked and new tasks C and D appear, choosing K runs: C vs A, C vs B, D vs A, D vs B — but never C vs D or A vs B again.

📊 Check ranking status without running battles

To see how many battles are answered and how many remain, without being prompted for any comparisons:

uv run habitica-prioritize --tags Work --status

Example output (fully ranked):

📊 Status for: Work
   Todos fetched:        14
   Battles answered:     43  (already saved)
   Battles remaining:    48
   Total battles:        91
   New todos:             0

Example output (new todos found):

📊 Status for: Work
   Todos fetched:        16
   Battles answered:     91  (already saved)
   New todos:             2  (not yet compared)
   New battles needed:   32  (2 new × 16 existing)

⚡ Incremental re-rank without prompting

To automatically choose K (keep existing priorities) without being asked:

uv run habitica-prioritize --incremental

🎮 Applying the ranking to Habitica

After every ranking run, you'll be prompted:

🚀 Apply this order to Habitica? (Y/N):

Answering Y remotely reorders your To Do tasks under the Active tab in Habitica to match your ranking. To skip the prompt and always apply automatically:

uv run habitica-prioritize --tags Work --reorder

🖥️ Example output

📋 Found 10 todos (Work):
  A: Fix production bug in auth service
  B: Write Q2 roadmap doc
  ...

⚔️  45 head-to-head battles! Pick the higher-priority task.

🥊 Battle [1/45]
  ⚔️  [████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░] 20%  —  9 done, 36 to go 💪
  1: Fix production bug in auth service
  2: Write Q2 roadmap doc
  👑 Winner? (1/2): 1

...

──────────────────────────────────────────────────
🏆  YOUR PRIORITY RANKING
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  🥇 # 1 (9 wins)  Fix production bug in auth service
  🥈 # 2 (8 wins)  Unblock design team on API spec
  🥉 # 3 (7 wins)  Write Q2 roadmap doc
       # 4 (6 wins)  ...

💾 Results saved to ~/.habitica-priority-rank.json

💡 Tip: applying will reorder your To Do tasks under the Active tab in Habitica remotely.
🚀 Apply this order to Habitica? (Y/N): Y

✅ Done! Your tasks are ranked and ready to conquer. 🎮

🧪 Running tests

uv run --extra dev pytest scripts/tests/ -v

📄 License

MIT