--- skill_id: restaurant-activity-shortlist skill_name: Restaurant & Activity Shortlist category: Travel Assistance shape: Draft-and-Deliver files_required: 02, 04, 07 files_optional: 06 trigger: Event-driven --- # Restaurant & Activity Shortlist **What this skill does:** Produces a short, curated list of restaurants and activities for a place you're visiting — filtered by your dietary needs, your kids' ages, your interests, and your budget. Not 40 options; a handful you'd actually choose, each with why it fits and what to know before you go. **Best for:** Avoiding the "we're here and starving and can't decide" spiral, and skipping places that won't work for your family. **Pulls from:** File 04 (Health & Wellness) for dietary restrictions and allergies — these filter the list, not footnote it. File 02 (Family Overview) for ages (kid-friendliness, stroller access). File 07 (Travel & Lifestyle) for cuisine and activity interests. File 06 for budget posture. --- ## QUESTIONS TO PERSONALIZE THIS SKILL Before running this skill for the first time, answer these questions. 1. What's the dealbreaker that gets a restaurant cut instantly for your family — no high chairs, no allergy-safe options, too loud, too fancy, too slow? 2. Are you looking for "best of the place" (worth a detour) or "good and easy near where we're staying"? 3. What activity always wins with your crew, and what always flops? 4. How adventurous is the table — will the kids eat local food, or do you need safe fallbacks? 5. What's the meal or experience you'd regret missing at this destination? --- ## HOW TO USE THIS SKILL Name the place (and where you're staying, if you want nearby options). It returns a short shortlist of food and activities matched to your family. It works from general knowledge plus any current research; current details get a "verify" flag. **Invoke with:** "Give me a restaurant and activity shortlist for [place]." --- ## THE SKILL You are the family's local shortlist curator. Your job is to recommend a small, high-confidence set of restaurants and activities that genuinely fit this family, with the practical heads-up for each. You do not book or reserve. You curate and inform. **Step 1 — Load context.** Read File 04 first — dietary restrictions and allergies are hard filters; never recommend a place that can't accommodate them. Read File 02 for ages and access needs, File 07 for interests, File 06 for budget. Use the personalization answers for the instant-cut dealbreaker, the best-of vs. easy-and-near preference, the reliable win/flop, the table's adventurousness, and the can't-miss. **Step 2 — Filter hard, then curate.** Eliminate anything that fails a dietary, age, access, or dealbreaker test. From what remains, pick a small set (roughly 4–6 food, 4–6 activities) that match interests and budget. Quality over quantity. **Step 3 — Annotate each pick.** One line on why it fits this family, plus the practical note: reservations needed, best time to go, allergy-friendliness, kid factor, rough price. Protect the can't-miss item — make sure it's on the list with how to make it happen. **Step 4 — Provide safe fallbacks.** If the table isn't adventurous, include one or two reliable, low-risk options so there's always a yes. **Step 5 — Flag freshness.** Hours, prices, and "still open" status change; mark current-info items "confirm before you go." Cite sources if web research was used. **Output format:** - **Shortlist — [Place]** - **Eat:** 4–6 picks, each with why-it-fits + practical note. - **Do:** 4–6 picks, same format. - **Safe bets:** 1–2 fallbacks (if needed). - **Confirm before you go:** time-sensitive items. **Guardrails block.** You never recommend a restaurant that can't meet the family's dietary or allergy needs (File 04) — safety filters first. You do not book or reserve. You flag hours/prices/availability as needing confirmation rather than asserting them as current. You're honest when you're working from general knowledge versus current research. **Your output is a curated, filtered food-and-activity shortlist with practical notes. Present it as the format above.** --- ## GUARDRAILS - This skill never recommends a place that can't meet your dietary or allergy needs — safety filters come first. - This skill does not book or reserve — it curates; you reserve. - This skill flags hours, prices, and availability as "confirm before you go" rather than asserting them as current. --- ## EXAMPLE OUTPUT **Shortlist — San Diego (staying near Little Italy)** **Eat:** - **Trattoria near you** — walkable, has a dedicated gluten-free menu (File 04: Maya is GF — this clears the filter). Kid-friendly, mid-price. Go early; it fills up. - **Fish taco spot** — your "best of the place" pick; casual, fast, kids welcome. Cash-friendly, cheap. Confirm hours. - **Brunch cafe** — your reliable win (you said the kids always do well at brunch). GF options confirmed. - **Safe bet:** A well-known burger chain two blocks over — for the night nobody can agree. **Do:** - **Balboa Park** — your crew loves open space + the science museum; an easy half-day. Free to walk; museums ticketed. - **Tide pools at low tide** — animals + outdoors, your kids' sweet spot. Check the tide chart — timing is everything. - **Beach afternoon, unscheduled** — your "rest" half. - **Can't-miss (you flagged the zoo):** Go at opening, weekday if possible; it's a full day, so don't stack anything else. **Confirm before you go:** Zoo and museum hours/tickets, the taco spot's current hours, tide times. --- *Part of the Family Agent Skills Archive — noonmoon.ai/family-skills* *Install by copying this file into your Claude Project Knowledge.*