What do I need to use Out Of Office Designer?

The dates and the real reachability; The likely needs; The coverers; In-flight work.

Is Out Of Office Designer free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Out Of Office Designer

Q: How do I know the Out Of Office Designer output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The message routes by need and contains no apology; The stated return date is padded by a day; Every coverer confirmed and holds a brief; "Urgent" is defined, with one named path.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Design an out-of-office that actually protects the time off — the auto-reply that routes instead of apologizes, the coverage map behind it, and the pre-departure handoff that prevents the beach laptop. Use when asked write my out of office message, going on vacation what do I set up, cover my work while I'm out, or I always come back to chaos. Produces the OOO message with routing, the coverage assignments confirmed, the pre-departure checklist, and the re-entry buffer plan.

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What to give it

▸The dates and the real reachability — genuinely offline, reachable-for-emergencies (define emergency), or working-remotely-lite (a different message entirely)

▸The likely needs — what people usually come to them for; each needs a coverer or an explicit "waits until I'm back"

▸The coverers — names, and whether they've actually agreed (a coverage map nobody consented to is fiction)

▸In-flight work — what's mid-stream, with deadlines that land during the absence

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The message routes by need and contains no apology

✓The stated return date is padded by a day

✓Every coverer confirmed and holds a brief

✓"Urgent" is defined, with one named path

✓Mid-absence deadlines were moved before departure, not discovered after

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not write dates-and-sorry — an OOO without routing just redirects everything to your return

Do not name coverers who haven't agreed — that's delegation by ambush

Do not leave "urgent" undefined — undefined urgency defaults to everything

Do not return to a full calendar — the buffer day is part of the vacation's ROI

Do not check email "just a little" on a genuinely-offline plan — one reply resets everyone's expectations of your absence

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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