Running the Operating Cadence
The full operating system of a chief of staff — the daily rhythm, meetings that produce decisions, ownerless projects driven to done, and intent turned into tracked workstreams, adopted as one.
The machinery that keeps a manager's world moving on schedule. Your Righthand runs the daily rhythm of briefs and reviews, keeps meetings producing decisions instead of more meetings, adopts the cross-cutting projects nobody owns and drives them to done, and turns every "we should really…" into a workstream with an owner, a deadline, and relentless follow-up.
What's in the pack.
10 skills, installed together — your Righthand arrives already equipped for the job.
- 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.
- Calendar And Meetings
Creating Am Brief
Summarize what matters for the start of the day. Prioritize clarity, factual accuracy, and sufficient context.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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