| name | flight-assist |
| description | On a byAir precheck wake event, reconciles the operator's managed calendar events (boarding block, adopted byAir flight event, Reclaim travel-block cleanup, switched-away teardown) and composes a user-facing flight notification — delay, gate change, cancellation, boarding, connection risk, inbound-delay, time-to-leave, baggage carousel, day-before check, or arrival logistics. Also configures the plugin (verify credentials, set home base). Use when a tracked-flight wake event needs a notification, or when setting up or diagnosing flight-assist. Triggers - "check flight-assist env", "diagnose flight-assist", "set flight-assist home base", "set home address", "configure flight-assist", "flight delay notification", "gate change notification", "cancellation notification", "boarding alert", "time to leave alert", "inbound delay notification", "baggage carousel", "arrival logistics", "day before sanity check", "flight removed upstream", "connection at risk", "tight connection alert", "reconcile calendar". |
| cadence | */2 * * * * |
| agentModel | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 |
| script | precheck.py |
Flight Assist
This skill is an action router — pick the step that matches the user's intent and execute only that step. Do not run other steps; do not parallelize.
Available actions:
- Diagnose env (verify byAir + Google Maps credentials)
- Set home base (record the user's home address for time-to-leave)
- Handle a precheck wake cycle (reconcile managed calendar events, then compose a user-facing notification)
Step 1 — Diagnose env
Run the env-presence check (scripts/check-env.py relative to this skill; the NanoClaw runtime mounts every tessl__* skill at /home/node/.claude/skills/tessl__<skill-name>/, so the absolute path the agent must literally invoke is):
python3 /home/node/.claude/skills/tessl__flight-assist/scripts/check-env.py
The script reads BYAIR_MCP_URL and GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY, prints single-line JSON on stdout, exits 0.
Parse the JSON. All true: emit flight-assist credentials present. Any false: emit one line per missing variable:
BYAIR_MCP_URL missing. Add personal MCP link from https://byairapp.com/mcp/ to OneCLI vault and restart container.GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY missing. Create a Distance Matrix API key at https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials and add to OneCLI vault.
Calendar access has no flag: OneCLI's gateway injects the Google OAuth Bearer on the wire, so no credential lives in this container and no env var gates it (nanoclaw#638). If the user is diagnosing calendar writes specifically, tell them to run the reconcile (Step 3) and read its error — gateway means the gateway is not authenticating the requests, tier means this agent's tier is gated from Google by design.
Finish here.
Step 2 — Set home base
When the user provides their home address (e.g., "set my home base to 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA"), invoke the set-home-base.py script to persist it to the plugin-wide config the precheck reads for time_to_leave queries as the fallback origin when no fresh live-location snapshot is available (see Step 3's time_to_leave row for the origin-resolution ladder). While a TripIt trip is active the precheck swaps the current trip lodging in for this address (trip_origin.py, #122) — the config value is the off-trip base, not a hard override.
python3 /home/node/.claude/skills/tessl__flight-assist/scripts/set-home-base.py "<address from user>"
The script writes the address to /workspace/state/flight-assist/config.json (atomic, idempotent), preserves any other config keys, and prints {"home_address": "..."} to stdout. Exit 0 on success, exit 2 on usage/validation failure.
Emit one confirmation line to the user: Home base set: <address>. Finish here.
Step 3 — Handle the precheck wake cycle
This step fires when the precheck script wakes the agent with a data.events payload. The wake cycle does two things in order: first reconcile the managed calendar events (deterministic glue, no LLM), then compose one human-readable notification per event.
First, run the calendar reconcile once per wake cycle, before composing notifications:
python3 /home/node/.claude/skills/tessl__flight-assist/scripts/reconcile.py
It converges the calendar to byAir truth — creates/shifts the boarding block, adopts and delta-shifts the byAir flight event, removes Reclaim travel blocks inside a same-airport layover gap, and tears down events for switched-away / cancelled flights that dropped out of the active-flights index. Every write is idempotent and a no-op when the calendar already matches, so it is safe to run on every wake cycle and alongside byAir's own delay-shifts. Airport drive blocks are no longer reconciled here — they are retired to the unified drive-engine (#156), which plans and applies them from its own sweep.
It prints single-line JSON: {"status": "...", "planned": N, "executed": N, "archived": N, "failed": [...], "airport_drive": {...}}. Output keys vary by status: byair_calendar_id and archived are present only when a cycle ran (ok / no_flights) and are omitted on no_calendar, so do not depend on a key that may be absent. status: "ok" means a cycle ran. no_calendar (no flight calendar resolved from config), no_flights (nothing tracked), or {"status": "error", "error": "gateway"} (the OneCLI gateway is not authenticating the requests) or {"status": "error", "error": "tier"} (this agent's tier is gated from Google by design) all mean reconciliation is inactive this cycle. The airport_drive object is now a fixed retired marker — {"status": "retired", "engine": "drive-engine"} — since airport drives moved to the unified drive-engine (#156); it is bookkeeping only, absent on the error exits. Treat a non-empty failed list (those ops retry next cycle) as expected: proceed to the notification below. Reconcile output is calendar bookkeeping, never a user-facing message — do not surface it; proceed silently regardless of its result.
Then compose the notification. Each event is {"flight_id": int, "event": {"reason": "...", ...}}. Compose one human-readable notification per event.
The full event-shape contract is in references/event-payloads.md; consult it when an event's reason is unfamiliar.
Phrase relative-date words ("today" / "tomorrow") against the operator's local date per rules/operator-local-tz-phrasing.md (run /home/node/.claude/skills/tessl__flight-assist/scripts/read-current-tz.py). Displayed airport clock times stay as-is.
The reason → notification mapping for the documented events:
reason | Notification |
|---|
cancelled | "Flight <code> cancelled." Include rebooking-options link if the user opted in |
diverted | "Flight <code> diverted." |
gate_assignment | One-time gate + terminal readout when the pre-boarding window opens: "<code> departs Terminal <dep_terminal>, Gate <dep_gate>." Drop the terminal clause when dep_terminal is null: "<code> departs Gate <dep_gate>." This is the navigation signal — which terminal to head to |
gate_change | "Gate change: <code> moved from <from> to <to>." If to is null, "Gate <from> removed from <code>." |
delay | "Flight <code> delayed by <delay_minutes> min. New departure: <new_dep_time> (local)." Negative delay_minutes = advanced; phrase as "moved earlier by N min". A schedule_slip: true event is the same surface — phrase it identically |
inbound_delay_predicted | "Inbound aircraft delay predicted: <delay_minutes> min for <code>. New estimated departure: <predicted_time>." |
inbound_delay_retracted | All-clear after a previously-surfaced inbound delay: "Inbound delay for <code> has cleared — previously predicted <prev_delay_minutes> min, now <new_delay_minutes> min (or no longer predicted). <code> is back on track." Always send this even if a prior "rebook now" / connection surface went out — silence is read as still-delayed |
connection_at_risk | When missed_connection is true (transfer window has hit zero or gone negative): "Connection structurally missed: <leg1_code> projected to arrive at or after <leg2_code> departs. Rebook required." Otherwise: "Tight connection: <leg2_code> boards in <transfer_minutes_remaining> min after <leg1_code> arrives — below the <min_transfer_minutes>-min buffer. Consider rebooking now." flight_id on this event refers to leg-2 (the downstream leg) |
boarding_started | "Boarding now: <code>. Gate <dep_gate>, terminal <dep_terminal>." |
carousel_revealed | "Baggage carousel for <code>: <baggage>." |
day_before | Day-before sanity check: read the user's calendar via MCP if available, list any events that overlap the flight window (T-3h before dep through T+3h after arr), and summarize. Read flight state via read_flight_state(flight_id) for context. When the summary names the departure/arrival airport, render it from last_snapshot.dep_airport_code/dep_airport_name and last_snapshot.arr_airport_code/arr_airport_name for THIS flight — never free-type an airport name off the numeric dep_airport_id/arr_airport_id or off other legs of the trip. Label the day per rules/operator-local-tz-phrasing.md |
time_to_leave | "Leave by <leave_by> to make <code> (<travel_time_minutes> min drive with current traffic)." Origin resolution ladder lives in state-schema.md under current-location.json |
arrival_logistics | Surface baggage carousel (read from last_snapshot.baggage), suggest a rideshare ETA if location is available, and note lounge access if connecting. Read flight state for context |
removed_upstream | "Flight <code> no longer tracked upstream — remove from active trips if intentional." Don't auto-delete; let the user confirm |
tracked_flight_added | Silent in most cases (the daily sync added a flight to the tracking index). Surface only when the user explicitly asked "what's new" or when data.events contains nothing else worth reporting |
tracked_flight_removed | "Flight <code> stopped tracking — daily sync removed it from the active-flights index." Treat as informational, not actionable |
For each event, fetch the per-flight state to enrich the notification (gate, terminal, ETD, ETA) by invoking get-flight-state.py:
python3 /home/node/.claude/skills/tessl__flight-assist/scripts/get-flight-state.py <flight_id>
Outputs the full state record as single-line JSON on stdout, or {"error": "..."} when the flight has no state on disk. Use the last_snapshot.dep_gate, last_snapshot.arr_gate, dep_terminal, etc. to fill in the notification template. When a template names an airport, render it from last_snapshot.dep_airport_code/dep_airport_name / arr_airport_code/arr_airport_name — the resolved airport captured at poll time. Never free-type an airport name from a numeric id or from memory of the trip.
If multiple events share the same flight_id (e.g., gate_change + delay in one cycle), compose ONE notification per flight that merges them, ordered: cancel/divert first, then time-sensitive (boarding, time_to_leave), then info (gate, delay, inbound), then logistics (carousel, arrival).
After composing, route the notification through the user's main channel (the orchestrator handles routing; the skill just produces the message text).
If no actionable text would result for an event (e.g., a duplicate notification you've already sent within the last 10 min), proceed silently — do not echo "no notification needed". Finish here.
