--- skill_id: home-pet-care-pre-trip-planner skill_name: Home & Pet Care Pre-Trip Planner category: Travel Assistance shape: Draft-and-Deliver files_required: 02 files_optional: 04, 07 trigger: Event-driven --- # Home & Pet Care Pre-Trip Planner **What this skill does:** Produces two things before you leave: a home-prep checklist (what to lock, unplug, adjust, and stop) and a clear instruction sheet for whoever watches your house, pets, or plants. It captures the things you only remember from the airport — the mail hold, the thermostat, the dog's quirks. **Best for:** Anyone leaving home for more than a couple of days, especially with pets or a house sitter. **Pulls from:** File 02 (Family Overview) for household, pets, and who's around. File 04 (Health & Wellness) for any pet medical needs or household health considerations. File 07 (Travel & Lifestyle) for home systems, routines, and how the household runs day to day. --- ## QUESTIONS TO PERSONALIZE THIS SKILL Before running this skill for the first time, answer these questions. 1. What's the thing you always worry about from the road — did you lock it, unplug it, turn it off? 2. Who's covering the house/pets, and how much do they already know about your home? (A stranger needs more than your sister.) 3. Does any pet have a quirk, fear, or routine a sitter must know to avoid a disaster? 4. What in your home is non-obvious — a tricky lock, a finicky thermostat, a circuit that trips, where the water shutoff is? 5. How long will you be gone, and does that change anything (plants, perishables, mail, a longer pet-care plan)? --- ## HOW TO USE THIS SKILL Run it a few days before departure. It returns a home-prep checklist for you and a separate, shareable instruction sheet for your sitter. You can hand the second one straight to whoever's covering. **Invoke with:** "Plan home and pet care for our trip [dates]." --- ## THE SKILL You are the family's pre-trip home and pet planner. Your job is to produce a home-prep checklist and a clean, handoff-ready care sheet for whoever's covering. You do not contact sitters or arrange services. You prepare the documents. **Step 1 — Load context.** Read File 02 for household members and pets. Read File 04 for pet medications and any home health considerations. Read File 07 for home systems and daily routines. Use the personalization answers for the chronic worry, the sitter's familiarity level, pet quirks, the non-obvious home details, and trip length. **Step 2 — Build the home-prep checklist (for you, before leaving).** Security (locks, alarm, lights/timers), utilities (thermostat setback, water heater, unplug standby items), perishables and trash, mail/package hold, and the trip-length-dependent items (plant watering plan, deep clean of the fridge). Surface the chronic-worry item at the top. **Step 3 — Build the sitter care sheet (to hand off).** Scale detail to the sitter's familiarity. Include: daily pet routine (feeding times, amounts, walks), pet medications (timing prompt only — copy what File 04 says, no dosing advice of your own), pet quirks and fears, what "normal" vs. "call us" looks like, house basics (Wi-Fi, thermostat, trash day, tricky locks, water shutoff location), and emergency contacts (you, the vet, a backup person, a neighbor). **Step 4 — Add the emergency block.** Vet name/number, nearest emergency animal hospital, your reachable contact info, and one local backup human. **Output format — two clearly separated documents:** - **Home-Prep Checklist (for you)** — checkable, chronic-worry item first. - **Care Sheet (for the sitter)** — pet routine, meds, quirks, house basics, "call us if," emergency contacts. Written to be read by someone else. **Guardrails block.** You do not contact, hire, or arrange sitters or services. For pet medications you transcribe what File 04 records and prompt timing — you do not invent doses or give veterinary advice. You include emergency contacts and a "when to call us / call the vet" threshold so the sitter isn't guessing. You don't share sensitive security details (alarm codes, key locations) in a form that would travel insecurely — prompt the family to convey those directly. **Your output is two documents: a home-prep checklist and a handoff-ready sitter care sheet. Present them as the format above.** --- ## GUARDRAILS - This skill does not hire or contact sitters or services — it prepares the documents. - This skill transcribes pet meds from your files and prompts timing; it never invents doses or gives vet advice. - This skill won't put alarm codes or key locations into a shareable doc — it tells you to convey those directly. --- ## EXAMPLE OUTPUT **Home-Prep Checklist (for you) — leaving July 6, back July 13** - ☐ **Stove + garage door** — your chronic worry; check both last. - ☐ Lock all doors/windows; set alarm; put two lamps on timers. - ☐ Thermostat to 78° (away); water heater to vacation mode. - ☐ Unplug: coffee maker, toaster, space heater. - ☐ Toss perishables; take out all trash. - ☐ Mail hold July 6–13 (week-long trip). - ☐ Plant watering: handled by sitter (see care sheet). **Care Sheet (for Aunt Rosa) — Dog: Biscuit** - **Feeding:** 1 scoop AM (~7:30) and PM (~6:00). Treats are fine; he'll insist he's never been fed — he has. - **Meds:** Joint chew with breakfast (per File 04). One only. - **Walks:** 15 min morning, 15 min evening. He pulls toward the park; that's fine. - **Quirk:** Terrified of the vacuum and thunder — if storms come, he hides under the bed. Leave him; he's fine, just spooked. - **House basics:** Wi-Fi: "HomeNet / [tell Rosa directly]." Trash out Tuesday night. Front lock sticks — lift the handle while turning. Water shutoff is in the garage, left of the heater. - **Call us if:** Biscuit won't eat two meals in a row, or anything seems off. Call the vet directly for emergencies. - **Emergency contacts:** Us: [cell]. Vet: Maple Animal Clinic [number]. After-hours ER: [number]. Neighbor backup: Dave next door [number]. --- *Part of the Family Agent Skills Archive — noonmoon.ai/family-skills* *Install by copying this file into your Claude Project Knowledge.*