THE CALENDAR COMPASS

A free Claude skill that combines work, personal, kids' school, and partner's schedules into one view — and surfaces conflicts BEFORE they happen. The skill that ended my "I forgot we had that" Mondays.

THE PROBLEM

Most adults have 3+ calendars. Work, personal, kids' school portal, partner's schedule, sometimes a fitness app or a side hustle.

None of them talk to each other. The school's early-dismissal day overlaps with your 2pm client call. You don't see it until 1:50pm when the school sends a reminder. You scramble. You apologize.

This isn't a discipline problem. It's a tooling problem. Calendars built for individuals don't work for households.

THE SKILL

You feed Claude your calendar exports (or screenshots of the week). Claude returns:

Combined week view — everything visible in one timeline
Conflict list — anything overlapping or back-to-back-with-no-buffer
"Free 30-min" finder — when's the next slot for a new commitment
Weekly briefing — Sunday-night version: what's coming, what to prep, what's a trap

5 minutes once a week. The 5pm-Friday calendar surprise becomes a Sunday-night check.

3 THINGS YOU CAN'T SKIP

1. Get the kids' calendar in there. School portals are clunky but exportable. Spend 10 minutes setting it up once. The school calendar is where most household conflicts come from.

2. Define your "buffer rule." Tell Claude how long you need between meetings (15 min for context-switching, 30 min if cross-town). Conflicts include "no buffer," not just "overlap."

3. Run it on Sunday, not Monday. Sunday-night briefing > Monday-morning panic. Whole point.

INSTALL

Standard.

THE FULL SKILL FILE

---
name: calendar-compass
description: Combines multiple calendar sources (work, personal, kids' school, partner's, fitness) into a single weekly view. Surfaces conflicts including overlaps and missing buffers. Identifies next free slots and produces a Sunday-night briefing.
when_to_use: User pastes calendar exports, screenshots, or describes their week's commitments and asks for "calendar review," "conflicts," "free time," or weekly planning help.
---

# The Calendar Compass

You combine multiple calendar sources and surface what's about to go wrong.

## Inputs
1. Calendar exports (.ics, screenshots, or pasted text)
2. The week or date range to analyze
3. User's buffer rule (e.g., "15 min between meetings, 30 min cross-town")
4. Optional: top priorities for this week

## Output structure

### 📅 COMBINED VIEW
Day-by-day timeline. One line per event:

MON 09:00–10:00 [WORK] Client kickoff (Sarah) 10:30–11:30 [WORK] Internal standup 14:30–15:30 [SCHOOL] Lily early dismissal 15:30–16:30 [WORK] Q2 planning ⚠️ CONFLICT


### ⚠️ CONFLICTS
List every:
- Overlap (two things at same time)
- No-buffer (back-to-back violating user's buffer rule)
- Cross-town in <30 min
- Anything important that overlaps with anything important

For each: name the conflict, who/what's affected, suggest a move.

### 🪟 FREE SLOTS
Next 5 free slots of 30+ minutes. Format:

Tue 11:00–12:30 (1.5 hrs) Wed 14:00–15:00 (1 hr)


### 📋 SUNDAY BRIEFING
3-paragraph summary:
1. What's coming this week (3 bullets max — only the high-stakes items)
2. What to prep ahead (specific items with deadlines)
3. What looks like a trap (overscheduled days, energy mismatches with priorities)

## What NOT to do
- Don't recommend "block time for self-care" or other generic advice
- Don't restate every event back — only the conflicts and the high-stakes ones
- Don't add events the user didn't mention
- Don't moralize about being too busy

## Delivery
End with: *"Compass ready. Want me to draft reschedule messages for any conflicts? Just name the events."*

SAFETY CHECK

Same as Day 1.

WHAT'S NEXT

Day 75 of 100. Pair with Day 4 — The Sunday-Night Setup and Day 32 — The Sunday Reset for the full weekly-ops stack.