Screen Time Goalie — Setup
Turn your screen-time rule into a policy Sprout runs for you: it interviews you, drafts a policy you approve, then decides screen-time requests, watches for bypass, and keeps a record.
Age range All ages
About
Interactive setup for the Screen Time Goalie. Interview the parent for their screen-time rule, write their policy (the "Run skill") in the defined format, author any proactive windows as native schedules, and schedule the reactive heartbeat. Authored to run in the parent's agent over MCP.
How it works
- 1OrientRead the family's kids, current screen-time settings, devices, and existing schedules so the conversation is grounded in what already exists.
- 2InterviewAsk the parent for their screen-time rule in plain language and steer it to conditions Sprout can read on its own surface — task completion, gems, time of day, schedules, and screen-time requests. Also ask whether to watch for bypass and how they want to be notified. Never silently drop a stated condition.
- 3Draft the policyTurn the rule into a written policy (charter, signals, rules, windows, monitoring, fail-safe) and read it back to the parent in plain language until they confirm. Nothing goes live yet.
- 4Write the Run skillOn confirmation, author the family's private Run skill that evaluates each screen-time request against the policy and decides grant, deny, or ask-a-parent — never a silent unlock — and watches for bypass when asked.
- 5Set up enforcementCreate any time-of-day lock windows as native recurring schedules, schedule a heartbeat that runs the Run skill against pending requests, and — if the parent wants it — a monitoring check that watches for bypass.
- 6Confirm liveTell the parent where decisions appear, that the Goalie asks them when it is unsure and flags suspected bypass the way they chose, and that they can re-run setup anytime to change the rule.