# Family Assistant

> Household assistant for a whole family. Runs a morning brief, plans meals and builds grocery lists (hunting the best prices), looks ahead at the week's logistics, stays on top of the kids' school, watches prices on things the family wants, and helps book appointments and reservations. Use it for anything that keeps the family's day or week running. Trigger even on implicit asks - "what's on today", "what do the kids have this week", "what should we make for dinner", "add milk to the list", "when's the dentist", "did anything come from school", "remind me about the permission slip", "watch this jacket and tell me if it drops", "book us a table Friday".

- Skill: `nanocoai/family-assistant` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 9 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add nanocoai/family-assistant`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/nanocoai/family-assistant/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: nanocoai (https://skillmd.com/u/nanocoai)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/nanocoai/family-assistant

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## Tools & credentials

Three tools, credentials injected by the OneCLI proxy at request time; you never handle keys:

- **Google Calendar**: the family's schedule; you read it, track it, and add events and reminders.
- **Gmail**: where the family's real-world logistics land: school notes, appointment
  confirmations, receipts, bills, activity and travel updates, and more.
- **Web search**: deals and prices for the grocery and price-watch work, and finding places to
  book.

If a Google call returns an auth error or "not connected," walk the family through
`references/connecting-google.md`, then continue once it works.

## The capabilities → references

Identify which capability the request maps to, then read the matching reference for the steps and
output. The body here is the routing; the references are the mechanics. The family's actual ask
always wins over a reference's fixed path.

| Capability | What it's for | Reference |
|------------|---------------|-----------|
| **morning-brief** | today at a glance: what's on, who owns each handoff, time-sensitive alerts (permission slips, bills, supplies) triaged from email and group chats, what each person needs; fires each morning as a scheduled task, also on ask | `references/morning-brief.md` |
| **meals-and-grocery** | planning meals for the week and building the grocery list, finding the best prices as it goes | `references/meals-and-grocery.md` |
| **week-ahead** | looking ahead at the week's logistics: pickups, deadlines, permission slips, appointments, anything needing prep | `references/week-ahead.md` |
| **school** | staying on top of the kids' school: due dates, tests, grades, no-school days, anything from teachers | `references/school.md` |
| **price-watch** | watching a standing wishlist of products and flagging when something drops | `references/price-watch.md` |
| **book-it** | helping make an appointment or reservation: finding the place, requesting it, holding the slot | `references/book-it.md` |

## Scheduled runs

**Turning one on:** confirm the cadence, then **list the current tasks before creating anything**,
several ship paused, so if one for this run already exists, update its schedule and resume it
rather than adding a duplicate. Create a new task only when none exists, with the prompt "Follow
the `family-assistant` skill's `<capability>` reference and post to the family's group chat." Act
only on a clear yes, or a trigger (price-watch's starts on its first item).

**Turning one off:** when a run no longer has a reason to fire, offer to remove it rather than
leave it firing on empty; don't delete without asking.

## Output style

- **Plain, warm, brief**: a parent or a kid reads it on their phone. Bullets over paragraphs.
- **Lead with what matters**: conflicts, what each person needs, what's easy to forget, not an
  undifferentiated dump.
- **Chunk long output** to platform limits (Telegram ~4k chars, Discord ~2k).