Chief of Staff
The judgment layer on top of the daily rhythm — briefs and reviews that say where time should go, what's at risk, and what actually matters this week.
More than an assistant. Your Righthand runs your operating rhythm — a morning brief, a midday inbox sweep, an end-of-day wrap, a weekly review — and goes a layer above it: where your time should go, the biggest risk on the horizon, the top priority, who you should be talking to, and what's worth reading before your next big decision. Information in, judgment out.
What's in the pack.
38 skills, installed together — your Righthand arrives already equipped for the job.
- Calendar And Meetings
Creating Am Brief
Summarize what matters for the start of the day. Prioritize clarity, factual accuracy, and sufficient context.
- Calendar And Meetings
Creating Hourly Briefings
Every hour, surface any important updates to your user. Summarize only what actually matters from integrated Email + Calendar. Triggered by the hourly reminder, never ad hoc.
- Self Management
Nightly Review
Daily end-of-day reflection. Run when your nightly-review reminder fires (default midnight America/Los_Angeles). Walk a fixed checklist: distill the last 24 hours of thoughts into memories worth keeping, audit open Tasks and Projects, audit open reminders, and reflect on whether you are becoming who you set out to be.
- Calendar And Meetings
Generating Meeting Prep
Proactively prepares meeting briefings by combining calendar review with participant research. Only activate when reminded — not spontaneously.
- Calendar And Meetings
Working With Calendar
Manages a USER's connected Google Calendar or Outlook calendar via `agent connection tool-exec`. Use when the user delegates calendar work to you on THEIR account — checking their availability, scheduling meetings on their schedule, accepting/declining invites for them, coordinating attendees across timezones, or auditing their calendar for conflicts. Applies the same scheduling, etiquette, and timezone wisdom as `my-calendar` but executed against the user's connected calendar instead of your own. The calendar belongs to THEM, not to you. For your own calendar (the one the Righthand uses `agent calendar` against directly), use `my-calendar` instead.
- Email And Comms
Working With Email
Operates on a USER's connected Gmail or Outlook account via `agent connection tool-exec` — drafting messages from their address, reading and searching their threads, and triaging incoming replies in their mailbox. Use when the user delegates email work to you on THEIR account: composing outreach from their address, responding to messages in their inbox, classifying replies to a campaign they're running, or organizing their inbox (search, label, archive). The mailbox belongs to THEM, not to you. For the Righthand's own inbox (using `agent email` directly), use `my-email` instead.
- Productivity
Working With Documents
Anything to do with document files — sending them, receiving them, creating them from scratch, reading or extracting data from them, or editing them. Use when: (1) someone has attached a file to an email/SMS/Slack message and you need to download it with `agent download` to read or analyze its contents; (2) you're sending an email or MMS and need to attach a file (`agent email send --attachment …`, `agent sms send --media …`); (3) you've been asked to create a new spreadsheet, slide deck, PDF, business report, or proposal; (4) you need to extract text, tables, or data from a PDF or Excel file, or do spreadsheet work (formulas, pivots, charts); (5) you're editing existing document files (merging PDFs, OCR, password-protecting, format conversion). Covers PDFs, Excel/CSV, PowerPoint, general business documents, and attachment handling end-to-end. For documents that live inside Notion or Linear specifically, use `working-with-notion` or `working-with-linear` instead.
- Product
Cross Functional Coordination
Coordinate across engineering, design, and leadership to drive product decisions. Run design reviews, negotiate scope, align stakeholders, unblock decisions, and communicate trade-offs. Use when: a feature needs input from multiple teams, a scope decision is stuck, stakeholders disagree on priorities, or you need to say "no" with a rationale. PM-focused — you are the connective tissue between teams.
- Calendar And Meetings
Scheduling Reminders
Use reminders to schedule future actions and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. When you promise to do something later, create a reminder.
- Communications
Sending Communications
Use whenever you need to send an outbound SMS, email, Slack message, or voice call from your own number/address. Your final response text is internal logging only — the ONLY way to talk to the outside world is the agent CLI.
- Integrations
Using External Integrations
Use when you need to act on the user's connected external services (their Gmail, their Google Calendar, their Slack, their CRM, etc.). These are the user's accounts accessed via `agent connection` — not your own outbound channels. For GitHub, load `using-github` and use native `git` and `gh` CLIs instead.
- Calendar And Meetings
Protecting Principal Time
Use when guarding your manager's time — screening incoming asks against their priorities, drafting declines in their voice, proposing delegates for what others can own, and batching the decisions only they can make into one daily sitting.
- Calendar And Meetings
Strategic Calendaring
Use when managing a calendar strategically rather than mechanically — sequencing a week, placing and defending focus blocks, aligning meetings with travel and commitments, and shaping schedules around energy instead of availability.
- Calendar And Meetings
My Calendar
Manages the Righthand's own calendar — creating events, responding to invitations, rescheduling, and reviewing the schedule for conflicts and free blocks. Use when the user asks the Righthand to schedule a meeting, confirm or decline attendance, reschedule something it's on, or audit its own calendar over the next 6 weeks for conflicts and free time. Uses `agent calendar create/respond/update/cancel`, reads `Knowledge/Events/`, and resolves times against `Knowledge/SELF.yaml` and contact timezone profiles in `Knowledge/People/`. Covers individual availability gathering, multi-stakeholder scheduling, timezone conversion, and proactive calendar review. For a USER's connected Google/Outlook calendar, use `working-with-calendar` instead.
Writing
Write prose across audiences & formats (blogs, LinkedIn, email, landing-page copy, memo). Also use when your user wants to define, refine, or teach you their writing style.
Onboarding Writing Style
Interview the user to create or refine an AI writing style guide. Use when the writing skill has no real style guide, when the user says "learn my voice" or "this does not sound like me", or when writing feedback should be turned into durable voice guidance.
- Research
Pressure-Testing Decisions
Use when pressure-testing a decision before it's made — playing devil's advocate, running pre-mortems on upcoming commitments, steelmanning the option your manager is dismissing, and surfacing the objection nobody in the room will say out loud.
- Research
Searching The Web
Use when you need up-to-date facts, news, or external verification beyond the knowledge graph.
- Writing
Writing Weekly Reviews
Use when writing the weekly review for your manager — the week in review, the shape of next week, and the judgment layer: one deliberate recommendation about time, risk, or relationships.
- Calendar And Meetings
Meeting Operations
Use when running the mechanics of decision-producing meetings — writing agendas, sending pre-reads, capturing action items with owners and dates, chasing them to closure, and recommending which recurring meetings to kill.
- Work Management
Special Projects
Use when running point on a cross-cutting or ownerless project — scoping it, driving it to done, and handing it back to a real owner or closing it finished.
- Work Management
Intent to Workstreams
Use when converting a manager's stated intent — the "we should really…" sentences — into tracked workstreams with an owner, a deadline, a success measure, and relentless follow-up until done.
- Meta
Creating Skills
Create or update a skill whenever you detect a recurring workflow or named procedure. Skills capture the "how" so future-you and other sessions can follow a consistent, improving playbook.
- Email And Comms
My Email
Manages the Righthand's own inbox across email, SMS, and Slack — reading threads, drafting replies, sending new messages, and triaging campaign responses. Uses `agent email send/reply/forward/mark-read`, `agent sms send/reply/mark-read`, and `agent slack send/reply/mark-read` for outbound; reads thread files and `unread.yaml` from `Knowledge/Communications/`. Use when a message has arrived in your own inbox and you need to read or reply to it, when you need to draft and send a new email as yourself, when triaging unread messages, or when classifying responses to a cold campaign you sent. For a USER's connected Gmail or Outlook account, use `working-with-email` instead.
- Knowledge
Input Synthesis
Use when distilling many inputs into the few things the manager must know — ranking what matters, compressing each to a sentence plus its consequence, and framing why it matters today rather than forwarding raw content.
- Knowledge
Organizational Sensing
Use when reading organizational subtext for your manager — keeping shadow notes after meetings and threads, spotting early-warning signals of conflict or departure, and carrying messages undistorted in both directions.
- Research
Curating Inputs
Use when recommending articles, podcasts, books, or videos to your manager — finding them, judging them against what they're wrestling with right now, and sending them pre-digested with the exact relevant part flagged.
- Communications
Stakeholder Updates
Use when producing recurring stakeholder updates for your manager — board packs, investor notes, partner summaries — covering the content, the cadence, and the input-chasing machinery that gets them out on time.
- Knowledge
Relationship Tracking
Use when maintaining relationship memory for your manager — per-person files in Knowledge/People/, milestone and birthday tracking, judging when a relationship needs outreach, and weaving intros that come with the reason attached.
- Gtm
Linkedin
Handles LinkedIn-based lead generation, prospecting, and engagement across three end-to-end pipelines: scraping LinkedIn post engagers and loading them into cold-email campaigns (Phantombuster + Apollo + Instantly), scaling personalized comment replies with browser automation, and structured multi-touch outreach via connection requests, sequenced messaging, and InMails. Use when the Righthand needs to load LinkedIn warm-prospect lists into email campaigns, run comment engagement at scale (replying to a competitor's post commenters with a lead magnet), or run a multi-touch LinkedIn outreach sequence. For broader marketing strategy see `marketing`; for general (non-LinkedIn) social posting see `marketing/Reference/social.md`; for prospect enrichment see `prospect-research-automation`; for outbound sequencing strategy see `hypothesis-driven-outbound`.
- Calendar And Meetings
Energy Management
Use when reading a calendar for burnout risk and restructuring a week for sustainable energy — spotting the pattern before it lands, protecting load-bearing personal commitments, and placing recovery where it works.
- Documents
Decision Memos
Use when writing the artifact behind a decision — one-pagers, strawman memos, and simple models that put options, a recommendation, and "what would change my mind" in front of the room before the meeting.
- Gtm
Competitor Intelligence
Builds and maintains competitor intelligence for sales and marketing. Use when monitoring competitor pricing, features, or messaging changes; researching alternatives for a comparison page; building 'vs' or 'alternatives to' SEO landing pages (e.g. 'create alternatives to Lindy'); handling competitive objections in deals; or analyzing customer sentiment on review sites (G2, Capterra). Sources include review sites, LinkedIn, competitor websites, news alerts, and Reddit. For broader positioning strategy see `marketing`; for SEO optimization of the comparison pages see `seo`; for prospect (not competitor) research see `prospect-research-automation`.
- Knowledge
Status Dashboards
Use when maintaining an at-a-glance health view of your manager's world and the institutional memory behind it in Knowledge/ — the status-view format, freshness discipline, change-only reporting, and filing decisions and post-mortems so they resurface when the topic returns.
- Calendar And Meetings
Booking Reservations and Appointments
Booking reservations and appointments on the USER's behalf at restaurants, venues, salons, doctors, and similar third-party establishments. Handles the three-party choreography: (1) align with USER on must-haves, redlines, and soft preferences BEFORE contacting the venue, (2) consult the personal-info bank so you never stall on a call for missing details (last name, callback number, email), (3) negotiate with the venue and confirm. Use whenever the user asks you to book, reserve, schedule with, or call ahead to an outside business.
- Communications
Following Up On Phone Calls
Guide for processing call transcripts, determining next steps, and communicating with your user.
- Work Management
Team Rituals
Use when planning team rituals, gatherings, and celebrations — the cadence, the logistics, and the details that make them land for this particular team.
- Work Management
Onboarding Senior People
Use when onboarding a new senior person into the manager's orbit — building their context pack, sequencing their introductions, and running the day-7 and day-30 check-ins that catch problems while they are still cheap.
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