Home Bar Restocking

Home-bar restocking

Build a transparent order-up-to calculation for each recurring home-bar item. Keep the result as a human-review shopping list.

This skill does not reconcile inventory, estimate event demand, design a starter collection, look up live prices or availability, choose substitutes, place an order, or edit an inventory system.

Freeze the planning inputs

Start from reconciled usable on-hand quantities. Route an unreconciled count to an inventory-audit workflow before continuing.

Record one demand basis per item as actual usage history, an approved forecast, or a named user scenario. Preserve its source, evidence date, daily rate, and user-provided confidence label without combining bases silently.

Collect the review period, lead time, approved target buffer, confirmed inbound supply expected inside the horizon, available package size, order minimum, order multiple, and availability evidence. A zero value must be explicit.

Keep price, storage capacity, and maximum-package limits as optional user-supplied constraints. Price evidence needs a date and currency whenever a budget applies.

Stop with INSUFFICIENT DATA if demand, usable stock, review period, lead time, buffer, package size, order rules, or required constraint facts are absent. Unknown availability also blocks a final quantity.

Normalize the contract

Use one unit per item across demand, stock, inbound supply, buffer, and package size. Leave each item in its own unit instead of converting through an assumed density or serving size.

Read the formula and input contract before creating calculator input.

If history is sparse or the item has a freshness limit, also read the sparse-data and freshness boundaries. Never derive a statistical buffer from inadequate history or apply a generic freshness window.

Completion requires a normalized JSON record with provenance for every decision-driving value.

Calculate the unconstrained quantity

Run the deterministic calculator on the normalized input.

node scripts/calculate-restock.mjs /absolute/path/to/input.json

For each item, the calculator exposes the demand horizon, forecast demand, target maximum, projected usable inventory, raw replenishment, package-rounded quantity, rounding overage, and post-order position.

The approved target buffer enters the target maximum once. A pre-existing reorder threshold cannot be added again as extra safety stock.

Completion requires reconciled arithmetic and an input hash. Any calculator validation error keeps the result at INSUFFICIENT DATA.

Apply declared limits

Apply an item-level maximum only when the user supplied its value and basis. The unconstrained package quantity must remain visible beside any reduced quantity.

A budget or storage conflict stays unresolved until the user chooses the trade-off. Do not allocate scarce budget, remove an item, change package size, or substitute a product through an inferred priority.

Availability marked unknown or unavailable keeps the calculated need visible while withholding a final reviewed quantity.

Completion requires every limit to show its source, arithmetic effect, and unresolved trade-off.

Return the review package

Report every item with one final status.

• reviewed_quantity identifies a calculated package count ready for human review.
• reduced_quantity identifies a user-capped count and preserves the shortfall.
• no_purchase records a zero raw requirement without forcing a minimum order.
• insufficient_data names the missing or unresolved fact that blocked a count.

Include the formula trace, total known cost, storage use, constraint conflicts, input hash, unresolved questions, and external_action: not_performed.

Use READY FOR HUMAN REVIEW only when arithmetic is complete and every declared constraint passes. A budget or storage conflict returns CONSTRAINT CONFLICT.

Completion requires a checkable shopping list, visible uncertainty, and a stop before checkout or inventory mutation.

Distribution note

After approval, the reviewed staples can support Garçon drink discovery from a better-stocked home bar. Garçon does not receive an inventory update from this skill.