Add Out-of-Office Assistant skill - #205
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Out-of-office assistant that auto-replies, flags urgent messages, and posts a daily digest of what was missed. Genericized from a personal Scout skill. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Pull request overview
Adds a new gallery submission for an Out-of-Office Assistant skill under submissions/ooo-assistant/, intended to provide OOO monitoring, auto-replies (with AI disclosure), urgency flagging, meeting mention monitoring, and end-of-day digests.
Changes:
- Adds the agent-facing skill instructions (
SKILL.md) including monitoring/digest procedures and the auto-reply template. - Adds a human-facing overview and usage guidance (
README.md). - Adds gallery metadata (
metadata.json) to publish the submission with platforms/tags/author info.
Reviewed changes
Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| submissions/ooo-assistant/SKILL.md | New agent instructions for OOO monitoring, auto-replies, urgency detection, meeting mention checks, and daily digests. |
| submissions/ooo-assistant/README.md | Human-facing setup/usage guidance for adopting the skill. |
| submissions/ooo-assistant/metadata.json | Catalog metadata for the new submission (name/description/platforms/tags/author/version/dates). |
| 4. **Digest folder** — where to save the daily digest | ||
| (default: `Documents/daily-digests/`). |
| Create these **recurring monitoring automations** (leave them enabled; they are | ||
| disabled/removed in the teardown phase when the user returns). |
| { | ||
| "name": "Out-of-Office Assistant", | ||
| "description": "While you're out of office, auto-replies to 1:1 chats and @mentions (clearly marked AI-generated), flags urgent items to you, watches meetings for mentions of your name, and produces an end-of-day digest.", | ||
| "platforms": ["Cowork", "Scout"], |
|
Thanks for this, Srinivas Varukala (@svarukala). Key question on this one more about format rather than substance. What's described here is fundamentally a set of recurring scheduled monitors. However, it is submitted in skill form rather than as an automation. In its current thinking, it makes sense as a Scout automation (which would require a different structure) or a Cowork task (which is fundamentally a prompt). So the ask is to re-home it into the container that matches what the proposed flow actually does. Thank you again for the thoughtful contribution here! |
Summary
Adds the Out-of-Office Assistant skill (
submissions/ooo-assistant/).While you're out of office, it auto-replies to 1:1 chats and @mentions (clearly
marked as AI-generated), flags genuinely urgent items for your attention, watches
meetings for mentions of your name, and posts an end-of-day digest of what you
missed so re-entry is painless.
Submission checklist
metadata.jsonwith name, description, platforms, tags, author, authorUrlSKILL.mdwith frontmatternamematching the folder slug (ooo-assistant)README.mdNotes
Adapted from a personal Scout skill. Single submission; no changes outside
submissions/ooo-assistant/.