out-of-office-designer
Design an out-of-office that actually protects the time off — the auto-reply that routes instead of apologizes, the coverage map behind it, and the pre-departure handoff that prevents the beach laptop. Use when asked write my out of office message, going on vacation what do I set up, cover my work while I'm out, or I always come back to chaos. Produces the OOO message with routing, the coverage assignments confirmed, the pre-departure checklist, and the re-entry buffer plan.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill out-of-office-designer --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Out Of Office Designer Skill An out-of-office message is the visible 10% of a system whose real job is *making the absence survivable without you* — and most OOO setups are an apology with dates. The working version routes: every likely need maps to a named human who agreed to it, the auto-reply states who-for-what, urgent has a real path that isn't your phone, and the return date in the message is padded a day so re-entry isn't a 400-email ambush during back-to-back meetings. ## What This Skill Produces - **The OOO message** — dates (padded), routing by need, the urgent path, no apology - **The coverage map** — likely needs → named coverers, each *confirmed*, each briefed - **The pre-departure checklist** — the handoffs, the expectations set, the deadlines moved before they become someone's surprise - **The re-entry plan** — the buffer day, the triage-first rule, the coverage debrief ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The dates and the real reachability** — genuinely offline, reachable-for-emergencies (define emergency), or working-remotely-lite (a different message entirely) - **The likely needs** — what people usually come to them for; each needs a coverer o
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Protection Rules
- Output Format
- The Message
- Coverage Map
- Pre-Departure Checklist
- Re-Entry
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the out-of-office-designer skill do?
Design an out-of-office that actually protects the time off — the auto-reply that routes instead of apologizes, the coverage map behind it, and the pre-departure handoff that prevents the beach laptop. Use when asked write my out of office message, going on vacation what do I set up, cover my work while I'm out, or I always come back to chaos. Produces the OOO message with routing, the coverage assignments confirmed, the pre-departure checklist, and the re-entry buffer plan.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill out-of-office-designer --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.