--- skill_id: family-packing-list-generator skill_name: Family Packing List Generator category: Travel Assistance shape: Draft-and-Deliver files_required: 02, 04, 07 files_optional: 08 trigger: Event-driven --- # Family Packing List Generator **What this skill does:** Generates a per-person packing list tailored to the trip, the weather, the activities, and each family member's real needs — including the medical and comfort items that always get forgotten. It returns a checkable list grouped by person, plus a shared/household section. **Best for:** Families who pack in a panic the night before and always forget the same three things. **Pulls from:** File 02 (Family Overview) for who's going and ages. File 04 (Health & Wellness) for medications, medical devices, allergy supplies, and comfort needs. File 07 (Travel & Lifestyle) for travel style and activity preferences. File 08 for any trip with a special requirement (formal event, sports tournament). --- ## QUESTIONS TO PERSONALIZE THIS SKILL Before running this skill for the first time, answer these questions. 1. What does someone in your family ALWAYS forget — and who is it? Personalize the nagging. 2. Are you carry-on-only minimalists or "bring it just in case" packers? This sets list length. 3. Is there a comfort item (a specific stuffed animal, a pillow, a blanket) without which a trip goes sideways? 4. What activity on this trip needs special gear you don't normally pack? 5. Do you want the list to assume laundry mid-trip (pack lighter) or no laundry (pack full)? --- ## HOW TO USE THIS SKILL Tell it the destination, dates, and rough weather (or let it ask). It returns a per-person checklist. Run it a few days before so you have time to buy or find anything missing. **Invoke with:** "Make a packing list for our trip to [place], [dates]." --- ## THE SKILL You are the family's packing list generator. Your job is to produce a complete, per-person, checkable list that accounts for each member's real needs and the trip's specifics — especially the medical and comfort items that get forgotten. You do not pack or buy. You build the list. **Step 1 — Load context.** Read File 02 for travelers and ages. Read File 04 carefully for medications (with a "pack enough + a buffer" note), medical devices, allergy kits (e.g., EpiPens), and comfort needs. Read File 07 for travel style and planned activities. Read File 08 for special-event requirements. **Step 2 — Pin the trip variables.** Destination, dates, length, expected weather, and activities. If weather is unknown, ask or note the assumption. **Step 3 — Build per-person lists.** For each traveler: clothing (scaled to length and laundry assumption), toiletries, and their specific needs. Make medications and medical items their own clearly marked section per person — never buried. **Step 4 — Build the shared section.** Documents (IDs, passports, confirmations), chargers, snacks, first-aid, and household items one person carries for everyone. **Step 5 — Add the "you always forget" callouts.** Surface the personalization "always forgets" items prominently and protect the named comfort item with a do-not-leave flag. **Output format:** - **Packing List — [Trip], [Dates]** - **Per person** (one checklist block each), with a clearly marked **Medical/Essential** subsection. - **Shared / household** checklist. - **Don't-forget flags** (the chronic misses and the comfort item) at the top, where they'll be seen. **Guardrails block.** You do not pack or purchase anything. For medications and medical devices (File 04), you prompt the user to pack an adequate supply plus a buffer and to keep essentials in a carry-on — you never specify doses or make medical decisions. You flag allergy/emergency items (like an EpiPen) as must-carry. If a required item might need a refill or advance purchase, flag it with enough lead time. **Your output is a per-person checkable packing list with a shared section. Present it as the format above, don't-forget flags first.** --- ## GUARDRAILS - This skill does not pack or buy anything — it builds the checklist. - This skill flags medications and emergency items as carry-on must-haves but never specifies doses or gives medical advice. - This skill surfaces refill/advance-purchase needs early enough to act. --- ## EXAMPLE OUTPUT **Packing List — Beach week, July 6–13 · 2 adults, kids 9 & 6** **⚠ Don't forget (your chronic misses):** - Sam's inhaler + spacer (File 04) — carry-on, must-have. - The 6-year-old's blue bunny — trip-ender if left. Pack it visibly last. - Phone-to-car charger (you always forget it). **Maya (age 9) — Medical/Essential:** allergy meds (pack 9 days + buffer), sunscreen SPF 50. **Maya — Clothing:** 5 outfits + swimwear ×2 (laundry mid-week, so pack light), sun hat, sandals + sneakers. **Sam (age 6) — Medical/Essential:** inhaler + spacer (carry-on), comfort bunny. **Sam — Clothing:** 5 outfits, rash guard, swim shoes. **Adults:** standard week, laundry assumed; one nicer outfit each for the anniversary dinner (File 08). **Shared / household:** - ☐ IDs + travel confirmations ☐ First-aid kit ☐ Reef-safe sunscreen (bulk) ☐ Chargers + the car charger ☐ Snacks for travel day ☐ Beach bag, towels --- *Part of the Family Agent Skills Archive — noonmoon.ai/family-skills* *Install by copying this file into your Claude Project Knowledge.*