--- name: executive-travel-itinerary-builder-skill description: "The skill (reusable, auto-invoking) version of Executive Travel Itinerary Builder. Produces a complete, timezone-aware executive travel itinerary covering flights, ground transport, hotels, meeting sequencing, buffer logic, and contingency plans, formatted as a single reference document the executive can follow without asking questions. Use when planning multi-city or multi-timezone business travel, sequencing meetings across cities, or building a door-to-door logistics plan for a C-suite executive." argument-hint: "[cities-and-dates] [meetings]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Executive Travel Itinerary Builder (Skill) ## Purpose Turn a set of destinations, meetings, and preferences into a single door-to-door itinerary that accounts for timezones, transfer buffers, meeting sequencing, and failure points — so the executive always knows exactly where to be, when, and what happens if something slips. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Plan a multi-city business trip for an executive - Build a travel itinerary spanning multiple timezones - Sequence meetings across cities and align them with flights and hotels - Coordinate ground transport, hotel check-ins, and meeting prep into one plan - Create a contingency-ready travel document for a C-suite leader - Fix a trip where meetings and travel connections are colliding ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Cities and dates**: Ordered list of destinations with arrival/departure dates - **Confirmed meetings**: For each — company/person, city, date, fixed vs. flexible time, expected duration - **Departure origin & home timezone**: Where the trip starts and the executive's base timezone - **Flight preferences**: Airline/alliance loyalty, cabin class, preferred departure windows, red-eye tolerance - **Hotel preferences**: Loyalty program, proximity priority (near meetings vs. airport), room requirements - **Ground transport preferences**: Car service vs. rideshare vs. rental, and any standing vendor accounts - **Executive constraints**: No-fly windows, dietary needs, energy/pacing preferences (e.g., no meetings within 90 min of landing), personal commitments If flight or hotel preferences are missing, default to the executive's stated loyalty programs and a 60-minute meeting-to-transfer buffer, and flag the assumption at the top of the itinerary. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Build the Timezone & Sequence Map Before scheduling anything, establish the trip's skeleton. - List each city with its UTC offset and the local time relative to the home timezone. - Order cities to minimize backtracking and jet-lag disruption — prefer traveling west-to-east or grouping same-timezone cities where meeting dates allow. - For each fixed meeting, mark it as an immovable anchor. Everything else schedules around anchors. - Flag any date/timezone conflict where a confirmed meeting cannot be reached given travel time (e.g., a morning meeting the day after a red-eye that lands after it starts). ### Step 2: Lock Flights Around Anchors For each city-to-city leg: - Recommend a specific flight window (not an exact flight unless one is given): departure time, arrival time, and duration in both home and local time. - Apply arrival buffers: minimum 90 minutes gate-to-curb for international, 45 minutes domestic before any transfer commitment. - Never schedule a meeting within the executive's stated post-landing recovery window (default 90 minutes for same-timezone, 3 hours after crossing 3+ timezones). - Note passport/visa/customs implications for international legs and lounge availability for long layovers. ### Step 3: Sequence Ground Transport For every transition point (airport→hotel, hotel→meeting, meeting→meeting, hotel→airport): - Specify the transport mode, estimated door-to-door time, and a buffer. - Use realistic city-specific transit assumptions (peak-hour traffic, distance from airport to CBD). - Add a 15-minute curb buffer to every car-service pickup and a 30-minute earlier-than-needed rule for airport departures. - Bundle same-day meetings geographically so ground transport isn't crisscrossing the city. ### Step 4: Assign Hotels For each overnight city: - Recommend a hotel positioned by the stated priority (nearest most meetings, or nearest airport for short stops). - Confirm check-in/check-out times against arrival/departure — flag any early-arrival gap and recommend early check-in or day-use. - Note the walking/driving time from the hotel to the first meeting of the next day. ### Step 5: Sequence Meeting Prep Insert prep blocks, not just meetings. - Before each meeting, add a prep window (default 30 minutes) with a one-line note of what to review. - For back-to-back meetings, add a 15-minute reset/transition block. - Identify any meeting where the executive lands the same day and flag whether prep time realistically exists. ### Step 6: Build the Contingency Layer For each high-risk point (tight connections, single-flight-of-the-day legs, weather-prone routes): - Note the risk and the fallback (next available flight, alternate meeting time, backup car vendor). - Provide one "if the first flight cancels" alternate path per critical leg. - List a single point-of-contact/confirmation number line for flights, hotels, and car service. ## Output Format - **Structure**: One master document, organized chronologically by day, each day headed with date and city; all times shown in **local time with home-timezone in parentheses** - **Length**: Scales with trip; typically 700–1,400 words for a 3–5 city trip - **Format**: Structured document — a summary block at top, then day-by-day timeline blocks, then a contingency appendix - **Sections**: Trip Summary & Assumptions → Timezone Map → Day-by-Day Itinerary (flights, transport, hotel, meetings, prep) → Contingency Appendix → Confirmation Reference List - **Tone**: Precise, calm, and directive — written so the executive reads one line and knows the next action; no hedging ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] Every meeting is reachable given the flight and transfer times before it (no impossible connections) - [ ] All times display in both local and home timezone - [ ] Every transition (airport, hotel, meeting) has an assigned transport mode and buffer - [ ] No meeting falls inside the executive's stated post-landing recovery window - [ ] Each overnight city has a hotel with check-in/out reconciled against arrival/departure - [ ] Every critical flight leg has a named fallback in the contingency appendix ## Notes - The most common failure is under-buffering ground transport in unfamiliar cities — when uncertain, add time rather than trim it. - If a meeting anchor makes the whole sequence infeasible, surface that immediately at the top of the summary rather than silently forcing a tight connection. - Red-eyes save days but cost the next morning; only recommend one if the executive's pacing preferences allow, and never stack a red-eye against a same-morning meeting. - Keep confirmation numbers and vendor contacts in one appendix block so the executive never hunts across the document mid-transit. --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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