Preface

Post-operative patients or their families often ask general large models questions like “what should I practice in the [x] week after surgery” or “when can I start running.” Without a structured workflow, models tend to provide vague suggestions and struggle to consistently prioritize medical advice, contraindications, and warning signs for seeking medical attention. The SkillHub community Skill “Post-Surgery Rehab Planner” (Coordinate: @user_70c2f807/post-surgery-rehab-planner, Version 1.0.0) encodes information gathering, phased planning, and output formatting into its SKILL.md. This enables the Agent to generate a comparable and executable rehabilitation framework based on surgery type and post-operative timeline during conversations, while explicitly defining non-applicable scenarios (such as pre-operative decisions, medication, acute complications, etc.).

What is this

“Post-Surgery Rehab Planner” is an Agent Skill designed for life services, maintained by the community publisher user_70c2f807. It is sourced from the community and categorized under life-service. The positioning described in the Skill instructions is: to generate stage-by-stage rehabilitation goals and training plans based on surgery type, annotate contraindications and progression criteria for each stage, and assist in restoring function and physical fitness within the framework of medical advice. The page and metadata indicate requires_api_key=false, meaning no additional API Key is needed after installation.

Official Access:

  • API Resource Page: https://api.skillhub.cn/user_70c2f807/post-surgery-rehab-planner
  • SkillHub Display Page: https://www.skillhub.cn/skills/user_70c2f807/post-surgery-rehab-planner

As of the data retrieval time, the SkillHub rating is 100,000, with approximately 918 downloads (installation count is 0, subject to the platform display).

Core Functions

The following capabilities are derived from the Skill’s SKILL.md instructions, which the Agent executes step-by-step upon triggering.

  1. Trigger Conditions: The user mentions post-operative rehab, surgical recovery, post-op training, rehab goals, when they can exercise after surgery, or requires post-operative rehabilitation guidance. It is not used for pre-operative decision making, post-operative medication management, or acute post-operative complication handling.
  2. Information Collection: Confirm surgery type and procedure, surgery date, attending doctor’s advice and restrictions, current activity level, and pain level.
  3. Phase Planning: Divide the process into stages: Protection \(\rightarrow\) Early \(\rightarrow\) Middle \(\rightarrow\) Late \(\rightarrow\) Return to Activity. Each stage sets goals, permitted actions, and absolute contraindications.
  4. Execution & Output: Provide key training points for the current stage, objective criteria for entering the next stage, warning signs of common complications, and time references for resuming daily activities and sports; emphasize the timing for physical therapist intervention.
  5. Boundaries & Error Handling: Has fixed prompts for scenarios such as fever, severe pain, conflicting medical advice, or unknown surgical procedures; FAQ covers common questions regarding pain assessment, whether to hire a rehab therapist, water immersion, and aerobic exercise.

The output is structured Markdown (including basic info, phase overview table, current stage training checklist, contraindications, progression criteria, abnormal signals, etc.), and repeatedly declares that medical advice takes priority and that no diagnosis or treatment decisions are made.

Installation & Enablement

The following introduces installation into the skills directory recognizable by the current Agent via the SkillHub CLI. If the CLI is not installed, please check the environment according to the official installation documentation first.

Check if skillhub is installed:

command -v skillhub && skillhub --version

If not installed, run the full installation (recommended by documentation):

curl -fsSL https://skillhub-1388575217.cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com/install/install.sh | bash

When installing this Skill, you must use --dir to point to the current client’s skills directory; otherwise, it defaults to ./skills/ which may not be recognized. The installation method provided by the community page and installation docs is: first read https://skillhub.cn/install/skillhub.md, then install the coordinate @user_70c2f807/post-surgery-rehab-planner. The installation command shown in CLI search results is as follows (replace <skills directory> with the corresponding path in your environment):

skillhub install post-surgery-rehab-planner --namespace user_70c2f807 --dir <skills directory>

Common client skills paths (excerpt from SkillHub installation documentation):

  • Cursor: ~/.cursor/skills/
  • Claude Code: ~/.claude/skills/
  • Codex: ~/.codex/skills/ or .agents/skills/ under the project

After installation, refresh or restart according to the requirements of each client to ensure the Skill is loaded. You can also ask the Agent in the conversation to complete the installation based on https://skillhub.cn/install/skillhub.md, specifying the full coordinate as @user_70c2f807/post-surgery-rehab-planner.

Typical Usage

The “Quick Start” examples in the Skill documentation can be used directly as user prompts to verify if the Agent responds according to the Skill workflow:

User: It's been 2 weeks after ACL reconstruction, what rehab should I do?
User: How long after meniscus surgery can I run?
User: How to recover movement after lumbar disc surgery?
User: What is the rehab plan after shoulder arthroscopy?
User: When can I exercise after a C-section?

Through the steps above, the Agent should first ask follow-up questions about the surgical procedure, days post-surgery, and medical advice, then output a phased plan. The documentation suggests that users actively provide the surgery type, days post-surgery, and restrictions given by the doctor, record mobility and pain scores daily, and bring this data to follow-up visits; progression should be based on objective functional criteria, not just moving to the next stage based on time.

Suitable Scenarios & Notes

Suitable For: Conversational scenarios where the surgery type is clear, the user wants to compare stage goals and contraindications during home rehabilitation, and requires reminders of warning scripts for complications. When used in conjunction with other life-service Skills from the same publisher, the documentation has noted that “post-lumbar surgery rehab” requires personalized medical advice; users should be directed to the capabilities corresponding to this Skill’s name (subject to each Skill’s own description).

Limitations (Already stated within the Skill, should be explained to end-users before use):

  • The plan is for reference assistance only; in case of conflict with the attending doctor’s advice, the medical advice prevails.
  • The Skill cannot evaluate individual post-operative recovery status; progression requires evaluation by a doctor or physical therapist.
  • Age, physical constitution, and surgical procedures vary greatly; fever, severe pain, increased swelling, etc., require immediate medical attention.
  • Not applicable for acute post-operative complications, surgical procedure selection, post-operative medication management, etc.; medical channels should be sought.

Conclusion

“Post-Surgery Rehab Planner” converges post-operative rehab conversations into a repeatable Collect \(\rightarrow\) Phase \(\rightarrow\) Output workflow. It fixes the format for contraindications, progression criteria, and abnormal signals, reducing the risk of random, generalized answers from Agents. For installation and details, refer to SkillHub: https://www.skillhub.cn/skills/user_70c2f807/post-surgery-rehab-planner , Resource Page: https://api.skillhub.cn/user_70c2f807/post-surgery-rehab-planner .