Agent skill

Out Of Office Designer

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Design an out-of-office that actually protects the time off — the auto-reply that routes instead of apologizes, the coverage map behind it, and the pre-departure handoff that prevents the beach…

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Install Out Of Office Designer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill out-of-office-designer -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills out-of-office-designer --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/out-of-office-designer .claude/skills/out-of-office-designer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
out-of-office-designer
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
592 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Design an out-of-office that actually protects the time off — the auto-reply that routes instead of apologizes, the coverage map behind it, and the pre-departure handoff that prevents the beach…

  • Works in 5 steps: Route, don't apologize: "I'm away… → Pad the return date: message says you're… → Coverage is consent plus briefing: each… → …
  • Asked write my out of office message
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: The Protection Rules and Output Format, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Out Of Office Designer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Design an out-of-office that actually protects the time off — the auto-reply that routes instead of apologizes, the coverage map behind it, and the pre-departure handoff that prevents the beach laptop. Use when asked write my out of office message, going on vacation what do I set up, cover my work while I'm out, or I always come back to chaos. Produces the OOO message with routing, the coverage assignments confirmed, the pre-departure checklist, and the re-entry buffer plan.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked write my out of office message
  • Going on vacation what do I set up
  • Cover my work while Im out
  • I always come back to chaos

Example prompts

  • “/out-of-office-designer”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Route, don't apologize: "I'm away [dates]. For X, contact [A]; for Y, [B]; everything else I'll answer from [padded return date]." No…
  2. Pad the return date: message says you're back a day later than reality — the buffer day absorbs the backlog triage, the coverage debrief…
  3. Coverage is consent plus briefing: each coverer gets a one-page brief per handoff (state, next step, escalation line, the do-not-decide…
  4. Urgent gets one narrow path: a single named person who can reach you for a defined emergency ("production down, deal collapsing — not…
  5. Pre-departure beats remediation: the week before: deadlines landing mid-absence get moved or delegated now, stakeholders get told before…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Out Of Office Designer loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 126 tokens; SKILL.md has 592 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~126
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 592 words, ~1,168 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/out-of-office-designer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
out-of-office-designer
description
Design an out-of-office that actually protects the time off — the auto-reply that routes instead of apologizes, the coverage map behind it, and the pre-departure handoff that prevents the beach laptop. Use when asked write my out of office message, going on vacation what do I set up, cover my work while I'm out, or I always come back to chaos. Produces the OOO message with routing, the coverage assignments confirmed, the pre-departure checklist, and the re-entry buffer plan.

Out Of Office Designer Skill

An out-of-office message is the visible 10% of a system whose real job is making the absence survivable without you — and most OOO setups are an apology with dates. The working version routes: every likely need maps to a named human who agreed to it, the auto-reply states who-for-what, urgent has a real path that isn't your phone, and the return date in the message is padded a day so re-entry isn't a 400-email ambush during back-to-back meetings.

What This Skill Produces

  • The OOO message — dates (padded), routing by need, the urgent path, no apology
  • The coverage map — likely needs → named coverers, each confirmed, each briefed
  • The pre-departure checklist — the handoffs, the expectations set, the deadlines moved before they become someone's surprise
  • The re-entry plan — the buffer day, the triage-first rule, the coverage debrief

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The dates and the real reachability — genuinely offline, reachable-for-emergencies (define emergency), or working-remotely-lite (a different message entirely)
  • The likely needs — what people usually come to them for; each needs a coverer or an explicit "waits until I'm back"
  • The coverers — names, and whether they've actually agreed (a coverage map nobody consented to is fiction)
  • In-flight work — what's mid-stream, with deadlines that land during the absence

Framework: The Protection Rules

  1. Route, don't apologize: "I'm away [dates]. For X, contact [A]; for Y, [B]; everything else I'll answer from [padded return date]." No "sorry for any inconvenience" — absence is normal; the message's job is routing, and apology invites exception-seeking.
  2. Pad the return date: message says you're back a day later than reality — the buffer day absorbs the backlog triage, the coverage debrief, and re-entry without meetings stacked on hour one. This is the single highest-value line in the design.
  3. Coverage is consent plus briefing: each coverer gets a one-page brief per handoff (state, next step, escalation line, the do-not-decide list) — see the handoff discipline in session-handoff; the same rules apply to humans.
  4. Urgent gets one narrow path: a single named person who can reach you for a defined emergency ("production down, deal collapsing — not scheduling"). No path = your phone becomes the path; too-wide path = everything is urgent.
  5. Pre-departure beats remediation: the week before: deadlines landing mid-absence get moved or delegated now, stakeholders get told before the auto-reply tells them, and the last day ends with the handoff briefs sent — not started.
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Output Format

OOO Design: [dates] — reachability: [mode]

The Message

[The auto-reply, verbatim: padded dates · routing lines · the urgent path · zero apology]

Coverage Map

Likely needCoverer (confirmed?)BriefedEscalation

Pre-Departure Checklist

[Deadlines moved · stakeholders pre-told · briefs sent · calendar blocked for the buffer day]

Re-Entry

[Buffer day: triage-first (the email-triage pass), coverage debrief, no meetings before noon]

Quality Checks

  • The message routes by need and contains no apology
  • The stated return date is padded by a day
  • Every coverer confirmed and holds a brief
  • "Urgent" is defined, with one named path
  • Mid-absence deadlines were moved before departure, not discovered after

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not write dates-and-sorry — an OOO without routing just redirects everything to your return
  • Do not name coverers who haven't agreed — that's delegation by ambush
  • Do not leave "urgent" undefined — undefined urgency defaults to everything
  • Do not return to a full calendar — the buffer day is part of the vacation's ROI
  • Do not check email "just a little" on a genuinely-offline plan — one reply resets everyone's expectations of your absence

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Write my out of office message."
  • "Cover my work while I'm out."
  • "I always come back to chaos."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/out-of-office-designer of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Out Of Office Designer

What does Out Of Office Designer do?

Design an out-of-office that actually protects the time off — the auto-reply that routes instead of apologizes, the coverage map behind it, and the pre-departure handoff that prevents the beach…. Out Of Office Designer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Design an out-of-office that actually protects the time off — the auto-reply that routes instead of apologizes, the coverage map behind it, and the pre-departure handoff that prevents the beach laptop.

When should I use Out Of Office Designer?

Out Of Office Designer fits situations like: asked write my out of office message; going on vacation what do I set up; cover my work while Im out; I always come back to chaos.

How do I install Out Of Office Designer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill out-of-office-designer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/out-of-office-designer in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/out-of-office-designer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Out Of Office Designer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill out-of-office-designer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/out-of-office-designer in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/out-of-office-designer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Out Of Office Designer in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill out-of-office-designer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/out-of-office-designer, .gemini/skills/out-of-office-designer, .github/skills/out-of-office-designer and .opencode/skills/out-of-office-designer in your project.

What does Out Of Office Designer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Out Of Office Designer is instructions for the agent only.

Does Out Of Office Designer access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Out Of Office Designer safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Out Of Office Designer use?

Out Of Office Designer is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Out Of Office Designer use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Out Of Office Designer?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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