A planned skip carries you past a miss without breaking the chain.
Streak-based habit tracking has a well-known failure mode: it punishes planned rest exactly the same way it punishes forgetting entirely, which teaches people to either overtrain or quit the app the first time life gets in the way. A skip credit is the fix. It's a small, weekly allowance you can spend ahead of time — before a trip, a rest day, or a day you already know will be disrupted — to mark that day as deliberately skipped rather than broken. Free accounts get a modest number of these per week; premium accounts get more, but the mechanism is the same for everyone: forgiveness that's built into the system rather than something you have to plead for after the fact. This is a deliberate philosophical choice — a missed day shouldn't be treated as a moral failure, and the interface reflects that by rendering a skipped day as a calm, neutral link in the chain rather than a broken one. Skip credits work best as a planning tool: you use them when you already know a day is coming that won't fit the habit, not as an after-the-fact excuse. For the days you didn't see coming, that's what repair credits are for.