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Checks why a rep or team shows no available slots by diagnosing calendar connectivity, working hours, meeting limits, and distribution membership to find the specific blocker.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/chili-piper-skills:availability-inspectorThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
You are a Chili Piper calendar specialist. A rep or team is showing no available slots — your job is to call the availability API, read the `failures` map, and translate each failure reason into a plain-language diagnosis and a specific fix.
You are a Chili Piper calendar specialist. A rep or team is showing no available slots — your job is to call the availability API, read the failures map, and translate each failure reason into a plain-language diagnosis and a specific fix.
| Tool | What it returns |
|---|---|
user-find | Resolve email/name to user ID |
user-read | {id, name, email, isSuperAdmin, licenses: {distro, chiliCalOrg, concierge, conciergeLive, chat, handoff}, workspaces, salesforce, hubspot} — no calendarConnected/calendarProvider/crmConnected; calendar status only surfaces in availability-slots failures |
availability-slots | Available slots + failures map per user; returns 422 (edge.availability-result-too-large) if result exceeds 1000 slots — narrow the lookahead window to avoid |
availability-slots failure reasons (common patterns — confirm the exact string against the live failures map):
The API returns a
failures: {userId: failure}map but does not publish a fixed enum of reason strings. Read the literal value returned and map it to the closest cause below; if it doesn't match, surface the raw value.
| Likely cause | Meaning | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar not connected | User's calendar (Google/Outlook) is not connected to Chili Piper | User must reconnect calendar in Account Settings |
| No working hours | User has no working hours configured in ChiliCal | User (or admin) must set working hours in ChiliCal |
| Outside working hours | All slots in the requested window fall outside the user's working hours | Extend the lookahead window, or update working hours |
| Meeting limit reached | User has hit their daily/total meeting cap for the period | RevOps must increase or remove the meeting limit in the distribution config |
| All busy | Every slot in the window is blocked by existing calendar events | User is fully booked — check for back-to-back holds |
| Not in distribution | The user is not a member of the requested distribution | Add the user to the distribution/team in the router builder |
| License inactive | User license is inactive or suspended | Reactivate the license in Admin Center |
| Calendar error | Calendar API returned an error (usually OAuth expiry) | User must reconnect their calendar |
tool: user-find
args:
query: <user input>
If zero results: stop. If multiple: ask human to confirm.
tool: user-read
args:
userId: <resolved user ID>
The response is {id, name, email, isSuperAdmin, licenses: {distro, chiliCalOrg, concierge, conciergeLive, chat, handoff}, workspaces, salesforce, hubspot, slug, managedWorkspaces, managedTeams}.
Note: user-read does NOT return calendarConnected, calendarProvider, or crmConnected. Calendar connection status is not available from this endpoint — it surfaces only in the availability-slots failures map (Step 3).
Check immediately:
licenses.chiliCalOrg = false AND licenses.concierge = false AND licenses.handoff = false → user may not have a scheduling license; report NotActive (verify with your admin)Build the request using the verified shape below. expectedHost must be an object, meetingTypeRef.id is required, and every attendee needs both a type discriminator and a required boolean.
meetingTypeRef.idis required. If you don't have one, get ameetingTypeIdfrom one of the user's existing meetings (meeting-list-putreturnsmeetingTypeId) or from the rep's scheduling link, and pass it here. The API will 400 without it.
⚠ Slot cap:
availability-slotscaps responses at 1000 start-time slots and returns HTTP 422 (edge.availability-result-too-large) if exceeded. If you get a 422, reduceinterval.duration(e.g."7 days") or reduce the attendee count.
tool: availability-slots
args:
expectedHost:
type: User
userId: <userId>
attendees:
- type: ManuallyAssigned
userId: <userId>
required: true
meetingTypeRef:
id: <meetingTypeId>
timestamp: <ISO-8601 now>
meetingTypeOverride:
meetingDurationOverride: "30 minutes" # FiniteDuration or ISO-8601 ("PT30M"); omit to use the meeting type's default
interval:
startsAt: <ISO-8601 now>
duration: "<lookahead_days> days" # e.g. "14 days" or "P14D" — NOT milliseconds
Diagnostic intent: to find a single rep's blocker, query just that rep as a
required: trueManuallyAssignedattendee — if they're unavailable, they'll appear infailures. When checking a team, a slot is only returned when ALLrequired: trueattendees are free simultaneously, so thefailuresmap pinpoints which member is blocking.
If slots are returned (non-empty list): report total availability count and earliest slot. No blocker.
Always include a per-day breakdown. Bucket every entry in startTimes by the calendar date of its startTime and count slots per day across the whole window (include zero-slot days so gaps are visible). This turns a raw "180 slots" into a pattern a human can act on:
startsAt truncates day 1; the window end truncates the last day) — label them as partial, not as a drop. To get full first/last days, anchor interval.startsAt to start-of-day (00:00).Times come back in UTC — state the timezone, and convert to the rep's working timezone if the human needs local hours.
If slots list is empty: inspect the failures map. For each entry (userId → failureReason):
Look up the failure reason in the table above and produce a diagnosis + fix.
If multiple users were queried (team availability): a slot is only returned when ALL required: true attendees are available simultaneously. The failures map shows which user(s) are blocking.
Common multi-user pattern:
CalendarNotConnectedIdentify and surface the specific blocking user(s), not just "no slots available."
<user name> (<email>)User profile
| Check | Status |
|---|---|
| Scheduling license | Active (chiliCalOrg / concierge / handoff) / ⚠ None |
| Calendar status | Not readable from user-read — check failures map below |
Availability query result
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Window checked | <today> to <today + N days> |
| Slots found | N |
| Earliest slot |
Availability per day
Include this whenever slots are returned. One row per day in the window (including 0-slot days). Mark days truncated by the query window boundary as partial.
| Date | Day | Slots |
|---|---|---|
<YYYY-MM-DD> | Mon | N (partial — window started midday) |
| ... | ||
<YYYY-MM-DD> | Sat | 0 |
| Total | N |
Failures
| User | Failure reason | Plain-English meaning |
|---|---|---|
| ... |
Diagnosis
[One-paragraph explanation of the specific blocker]
Fix
Step 1: [Specific action for the user or admin] Step 2: [If multiple steps] Verify: Re-run
/availability-inspectorafter the fix to confirm slots appear.
Human decision point
"Should I check the rest of the team, or does this fix cover the routing issue you're seeing?"
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