Absence Coordination

Version 1.0.0 (2026-08-12)

An absence is a handoff, not an announcement

Most "out of office" tooling answers one question: is this person away? That is the least useful question anyone has.

The questions people actually have are: who decides in their place, what can wait, and can I reach them if it truly cannot. An absence notice that omits those does not remove a blocker — it relocates it, from your calendar into someone else's inbox, where it sits until you get back and discover a week of stalled decisions.

This skill treats an absence as a handoff with a scheduled reversal. Every protocol below follows from that.

It also treats an absence as a relationship event. Who hears first, who hears what, and who never hears at all are not implementation details. They are the whole thing.