availability-inspector

Availability Inspector

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.

API reference

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

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Step 1 — Resolve the user

tool: user-find
args:
  query: <user input>

If zero results: stop. If multiple: ask human to confirm.

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Step 2 — Check user profile for obvious blockers

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)
• If user looks valid, proceed directly to Step 3 — calendar status will surface in the failures map

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Step 3 — Call availability-slots

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.id is required. If you don't have one, get a meetingTypeId from one of the user's existing meetings (meeting-list-put returns meetingTypeId) or from the rep's scheduling link, and pass it here. The API will 400 without it.

⚠ Slot cap: availability-slots caps responses at 1000 start-time slots and returns HTTP 422 (edge.availability-result-too-large) if exceeded. If you get a 422, reduce interval.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: true ManuallyAssigned attendee — if they're unavailable, they'll appear in failures. When checking a team, a slot is only returned when ALL required: true attendees are free simultaneously, so the failures map pinpoints which member is blocking.

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Step 4 — Interpret the result

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:

• Weekends / holidays showing 0 confirm working-hours config, not a bug.
• A weekday at 0 in an otherwise-full week is a real signal (day off, fully booked, or a calendar block) — worth calling out.
• A later first slot on some weekdays (e.g. Mondays starting 09:30 vs 08:30 elsewhere) points to day-specific working hours.
• First/last day partials are usually just the query window boundaries (a midday 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:

• Two users in the distribution
• One has CalendarNotConnected
• Result: 0 slots returned, but only one user is the actual blocker

Identify and surface the specific blocking user(s), not just "no slots available."

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Step 5 — Output format

Availability Inspector: <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-inspector after 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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Data handling

• PII present: user email used for lookup and display
• Storage: ephemeral
• Writes: none — read-only diagnostic