Plan weekly family logistics around schedules and custody
A parent built a Claude Code skill that takes schedules, dietary profiles, cooking ability and the custody calendar to coordinate who is home, cooking and picking up kids.
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- What they did
- The parent put their family’s schedules, dietary profiles, cooking ability, and 50/50 custody calendar into a single Claude Code SKILL.md file, then connected Claude to Google Calendar, Gmail, Notion, and Chrome via MCP. Claude used that context to generate a Sunday-night weekly briefing, assign realistic meals based on who was home and able to cook, draft co-parent logistics emails, and scan grocery prices across stores before loading carts through Chrome MCP.
- How it went
- They say the cooking-assignment logic became the most useful part because it matched meals to the parent actually available that night. Their first grocery test projected about $4.3K a year in savings, and they also say splitting a 40-item list across four stores beat a single store by 30–40%, though a commenter questioned whether those savings were inflated.
- Worth knowing
- It was built as just a markdown skill file with no app, backend, or database, but the author says MCP setup can be finicky.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
I want a reusable weekly family planner. Read the files in [folder with schedules, custody calendar, dietary notes, and who can cook what], then build a skill that each week produces a day-by-day plan showing who is home, who cooks what dinner, and who handles each pickup. Respect [dietary restrictions] and flag any day where nobody is available for pickup. You're done when you've saved a one-page plan for [coming week] and shown it to me before anything is shared.
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