restaurant-snipe

name	restaurant-snipe
description	Stage tightly scoped background reservation monitoring for OpenTable or Resy after explicit bounded preauthorization. Resy may auto-book after approval; OpenTable remains notification-only until this runtime adapter integrates the deployed live reservations reader. Not for one-shot search, attended booking, or cancellation.
allowed-tools	Bash(opentable-reservations:*) Bash(resy-read:*) Bash(restaurant-snipe:*)
metadata	{"openclaw":{"emoji":"🎯","requires":{"bins":["opentable","opentable-reservations","pinchtab-headless-instance","python3","resy","resy-read","restaurant-snipe"]}}}

Restaurant Snipe

Stage a reviewable authorization and per-user LaunchAgent for a bounded, cache-only reservation monitor. Staging never deploys, loads, books, or changes a live LaunchAgent.

Safety contract

• Default to read-only availability monitoring. Auto-book only after the user explicitly approves the complete scope below in the current conversation.
• OpenTable monitoring currently executes read-only because the snipe runtime adapter does not invoke the deployed reservation reader at its mutation boundary. The standalone reader supports a safe attended staging snapshot, but it does not silently upgrade a staged snipe. Even a separately approved, digest-bound auto-book scope must not create an attempt marker or call the booking endpoint while that integration is absent.
• Treat “watch,” “monitor,” or “snipe” alone as insufficient authorization to book. Do not infer missing values or reuse approval from another job.
• Never put a 1Password token in a job, source .env-token or .secrets-cache, or let a LaunchAgent invoke op. Refresh provider caches interactively before staging; a cache miss at runtime fails closed.
• Never print or persist availability/config/book/reservation/auth/payment tokens or raw provider responses. Logs and notifications contain safe facts only.
• Never deploy directly from this skill. Generate artifacts in a staging directory, show the user the safe summary, and wait for a separate explicit instruction to copy and bootstrap the reviewed files.
• Never retry an ambiguous booking attempt. The runner records a protected attempt marker and requires manual account review.

Required preauthorization

Record every field explicitly:

1. Approval ID, approver, and timestamp
2. Declared, digest-bound booking mode: read-only or auto-book
3. Platform plus verified venue ID and venue name
4. Exact candidate date or dates
5. Party size
6. Target time, earliest/latest time window, and maximum time delta
7. Monitoring duration, absolute expiry, and polling interval
8. Notification target supplied by the user
9. A fresh read-only existing-reservation check: timestamp, source, and a normalized token-free snapshot

The absolute expiry must equal the authorization timestamp plus the approved duration. A reservation already inside the requested time window blocks staging.

Attended staging workflow

1. Load the appropriate platform skill, then resolve and verify the venue with its attended read-only info or search command.

2. Review the booking account through its normalized read-only command:

   resy-read reservations
   opentable-reservations --json
   

   Any command failure, incomplete account proof, malformed row, or authentication uncertainty is unknown—not an empty reservations list—and blocks staging.

3. Save only normalized, non-secret facts to a temporary JSON file:

{
  "reservations": [
    {
      "platform": "resy",
      "venue_id": "example-id",
      "date": "YYYY-MM-DD",
      "time": "19:00",
      "party_size": 2,
      "status": "confirmed"
    }
  ]
}

Use an empty reservations array only after the attended check confirms none.

4. After the user approves every required field, stage artifacts outside ~/.openclaw and ~/Library/LaunchAgents:

restaurant-snipe stage \
  --output-dir /tmp/restaurant-snipe-review/<job> \
  --slug <job> \
  --authorization-id <approval-reference> \
  --approved-by <approver> \
  --authorized-at <ISO-8601-with-timezone> \
  --platform <opentable-or-resy> \
  --booking-mode <read-only-or-auto-book> \
  --venue-id <verified-id> \
  --venue-name <verified-name> \
  --date <YYYY-MM-DD> \
  --party-size <number> \
  --target-time <HH:MM> \
  --window-start <HH:MM> \
  --window-end <HH:MM> \
  --max-delta-minutes <minutes> \
  --duration-seconds <seconds> \
  --expires-at <ISO-8601-with-timezone> \
  --poll-interval-seconds <300-to-3600> \
  --notification-target <explicit-chat-id> \
  --existing-reservations-json /tmp/<job>-existing.json \
  --existing-reservation-checked-at <ISO-8601-with-timezone> \
  --existing-reservation-source <account-view-used>

OpenTable may use digest-bound auto-book only after the user explicitly approves that mode, but its current adapter still downgrades matches to notified read-only results because it does not integrate the deployed account reader as the live pre-mutation guard required for mutation. The helper emits only authorization.json and a plist in the staging directory. Inspect both and summarize the approved venue, dates, party, time policy, declared booking mode, duration, expiry, and whether an existing conflict was found. Do not display the notification target.

Runtime guarantees

The tracked runner performs one poll per LaunchAgent invocation:

• Recompute the authorization fingerprint and reject edits or expired scope.
• Require schema v2 with a declared booking mode in both the fingerprint and authorization digest. Schema-v1 jobs fail closed and must be restaged; a newly available provider capability cannot upgrade a read-only job.
• Acquire a per-scope lock and check retained completion/attempt markers.
• Check local receipts and, for Resy, query existing reservations before availability. Reject malformed or error-bearing reservation responses rather than treating them as an empty account.
• Select only a structured slot inside every approved date/time constraint.
• Load the existing provider module with its _op_read fallback disabled and a PATH that excludes Homebrew op/timeout.
• Immediately before any mutation, repeat the live reservations check. Missing, malformed, or failed lookup capability is never equivalent to an empty list. The current OpenTable snipe adapter therefore reports a safe read-only match and keeps monitoring; only an adapter explicitly wired to the normalized live lookup may proceed.
• Serialize all booking mutations through one account-wide lock and recheck cross-job receipts and unresolved attempt markers while holding it. An ambiguous attempt in any overlapping scope blocks other jobs pending review.
• Persist a token-free booking-attempt marker before one exact booking call.
• Require the tracked provider adapter's pre-mutation deadline contract. The adapter first reserves rate-limit capacity for one guard GET and one booking POST, repeats the live reservations check with the first slot, rebuilds fresh auth headers, and consumes the second slot without an intervening wait before rechecking expiry and sending the POST. Booking redirects are disabled, and transport failures, redirects, and rate-limit responses are never retried.
• For OpenTable, accept success only when a structured confirmation ID and an affirmative success/confirmed signal are both present and no false status or nested error contradicts them. Exit status, an ID alone, success: true alone, or matching human text is insufficient. Resy requires an exact reservation read-back after every non-exceptional booking call.
• On a confirmed booking or confirmed existing reservation, atomically retain a token-free receipt, send the preauthorized notification, then unload the exact job and remove only its deployed config/plist. If unload fails, retain the artifacts. Notification failure never re-arms booking.
• On an ambiguous result, retain the job and marker for attended review; later runs make no booking call. On expiry, make no booking call and leave cleanup for an attended action.
• For digest-bound read-only jobs, send one token-free “availability found, not booked” notification per continuously available date/time and retain the job. Clear the notification marker after a no-match poll so a later reappearance can notify again.

Helper

restaurant-snipe is the skill-local attended wrapper for staging. It rejects the internal run subcommand; staged plists invoke the tracked Python runner directly. Do not call the runner against a live authorization merely to test the skill.