Lucky Break

🪙 Lucky Break — Your Weekly Luck Break

A Claude Code plugin that analyzes your last 7 days of conversations — across both Claude Code and Codex CLI — and suggests one actionable, pattern-breaking thing to do, grounded in the neuroscience of luck. Best run as a Sunday-evening ritual.

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Installation

This plugin is published through the cc-garden marketplace. From inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add AABur/cc-garden
/plugin install lucky-break@cc-garden

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How it triggers

Run it deliberately, as a weekly luck-break ritual:

/lucky-break

Claude also reaches for it when you ask for a weekly reset or a nudge out of autopilot — "what should I change this week?", "give me a pattern break", "flip a coin on my week", "I feel stuck in a routine". Best used as a Sunday-evening ritual so the week ahead starts with one intentional departure from the gray straight path.

It stays out of the way for ordinary build, debug, and ship work — it is a reflection tool, not a coding assistant.

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What it does

1. Scans your conversation transcripts from the last 7 days across all projects, in both Claude Code (~/.claude/projects) and Codex CLI (~/.codex/sessions). Each project is tagged with its source, so the same repo worked on through both CLIs is read together. (Reading Codex logs needs only the files — not a running Codex.)
2. Extracts your messages to map topics, cognitive mode (exploit vs. explore), and excitement signals.
3. Identifies your "gray straight path" — what you do on autopilot, even when it is productive.
4. Finds unfinished threads — fascination signals that got buried under operational work.
5. Suggests one specific, actionable thing to do this week.

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The Idea

Lucky people aren't born lucky. They run different neurological software — and it can be installed. Nobuko Nakano identifies five mechanisms:

1. Self-narrative — declaring "I am lucky" shifts the prefrontal cortex from threat-detection to opportunity-recognition mode.
2. Biology — serotonin production requires morning sunlight, tryptophan, and regular sleep.
3. Fascination compass — dopamine responds to genuine interest, not obligation. "Each small departure from routine is a ticket in a lottery that the cautious never enter."
4. Authentic generosity — genuine giving activates the brain's reward center more powerfully than receiving.
5. Persistence — game theory simulations show outcomes overwhelmingly favor those who stay in the game.

This plugin reads your recent Claude Code and Codex CLI sessions, identifies your "gray straight path" (the routine you're on autopilot with, even if it's productive), finds buried fascination signals, and suggests one concrete pattern-break for the week.

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Example Output

🪙 Your luck break this week:

Have a 30-minute conversation with someone outside your field. No agenda.

Why: Your last 7 days were 100% exploit mode across 15 projects.
Every interaction was transactional — students, customers, team, leads.
The only pure-curiosity thread lasted 3 messages before you got interrupted.

The gray path: Build → ship → write about it → adapt → ship again.

Fascination signal: Two non-work reading items have survived 4 weeks
of inbox triage without being deleted or acted on.

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The Science

Based on Nobuko Nakano's "Lucky People" (Gallery UK, 2026) and supported by:

• Cascio et al. (2016) — self-affirmation activates the medial prefrontal cortex.
• DeYoung (2013) — dopamine as the neuromodulator of exploration.
• Levitt (2020) — random coin flips help overcome status quo bias by 25%.
• Mauboussin, "The Success Equation" — result = skill + luck; only skill is controllable.

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Credits

lucky-break is a fork of, and based on, the original coin-flip skill by Bayram Annakov. This distribution reworks coin-flip into a cc-garden plugin while preserving its concept, the five luck mechanisms, and the research grounding.

The concept was inspired by this post about Nobuko Nakano's research on the behavioral neuroscience of luck.

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License

MIT. This fork preserves the original author's copyright alongside the derivative author's — see LICENSE for both copyright lines.