Schedule With Outlook

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    "slug": "whitefield-labs-schedule-with-outlook",
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    "name": "schedule-with-outlook",
    "description": "Manage Microsoft Outlook contacts and calendar from your AI assistant — search contacts, schedule Teams meetings, find free time, and keep relationship notes all in one place via Rarefriend. Use when the user wants to: search Outlook contacts, schedule an Outlook or Teams meeting, check their Outlook calendar, find free time, reschedule or cancel Outlook events, add notes about people, tag and organise their Microsoft network, or connect their Microsoft account. Triggers on: Outlook, Microsoft, Teams, Exchange, Office 365, Microsoft contacts, Outlook calendar, schedule Teams meeting, book meeting, free slot, Outlook contact, notes, tags, Microsoft calendar, Teams call, Office meeting.\n",
    "summary": "Manage Microsoft Outlook contacts and calendar from your AI assistant — search contacts, schedule Teams meetings, find free time, and keep relationship notes via Rarefriend.",
    "icon": "📅",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "author": "Whitefield-Labs",
    "license": "MIT-0",
    "category": "productivity",
    "tags": [
      "outlook",
      "calendar",
      "teams",
      "contacts",
      "scheduling"
    ],
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  "security_audit": {
    "risk_level": "low",
    "is_blocked": false,
    "safe_to_publish": true,
    "summary": "The skill consists of two Markdown documentation files describing how to use the Rarefriend MCP integration for Microsoft Outlook. All static findings (92 external_commands, 5 network, 6 filesystem) are false positives — they are Markdown code blocks containing legitimate bash setup commands (claude mcp add), JSON configuration snippets for MCP clients, env var names (RAREFRIEND_CLIENT_ID/SECRET), and dotfile config paths (~/.cursor/mcp.json). No executable code is present. No malicious intent or data exfiltration patterns were found. The skill is a productivity tool for scheduling, contacts, and notes management.",
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  "content": {
    "user_title": "Schedule Meetings and Manage Outlook Contacts",
    "value_statement": "Managing Outlook contacts and calendar through a chat interface is tedious and fragmented. This skill lets Claude search contacts, schedule Teams meetings, and log notes in one workflow.",
    "seo_keywords": [
      "Claude",
      "Codex",
      "Claude Code",
      "Outlook calendar",
      "Teams meeting scheduler",
      "Microsoft contacts",
      "MCP integration",
      "Rarefriend",
      "AI calendar assistant",
      "productivity skill"
    ],
    "actual_capabilities": [
      "Search Microsoft Outlook and Exchange contacts by name, company, or email",
      "Check upcoming Outlook calendar events and search for specific meetings",
      "Find available time slots across multiple attendees before scheduling",
      "Create, reschedule, and cancel Outlook and Teams calendar events",
      "Create, edit, search, and pin notes for individual contacts",
      "Add, remove, and rename tags to organise and categorise contacts"
    ],
    "limitations": [
      "Requires Rarefriend MCP server (@rarefriend-ai/mcp) to be installed and connected",
      "Microsoft contacts are read-only — edits go through the CRM update_contact tool",
      "Notes are stored in Rarefriend, not in Outlook itself",
      "Microsoft email search requires installing the separate find-outlook-emails skill"
    ],
    "use_cases": [
      {
        "title": "Schedule a Teams meeting",
        "description": "Search for a contact by name, find a free time slot that works for all attendees, and create a Teams meeting in Outlook — all from a single chat request.",
        "target_user": "Busy professionals who schedule meetings frequently"
      },
      {
        "title": "Log meeting notes",
        "description": "After any call or meeting, quickly create and pin a note against the relevant contact to maintain a searchable history of interactions.",
        "target_user": "Salespeople and account managers tracking relationships"
      },
      {
        "title": "Organise network with tags",
        "description": "Bulk-tag contacts by company, role, or relationship type, then filter and search by tag to segment your professional network.",
        "target_user": "Networkers and founders managing large contact lists"
      }
    ],
    "prompt_templates": [
      {
        "title": "Check this week's calendar",
        "prompt": "What meetings do I have on my Outlook calendar this week?",
        "scenario": "Quick daily or weekly calendar overview"
      },
      {
        "title": "Schedule a Teams meeting",
        "prompt": "Schedule a 30-minute Teams meeting with Sarah Chen next week. Find a time that works for both of us.",
        "scenario": "Booking a meeting with availability checking"
      },
      {
        "title": "Log a meeting note",
        "prompt": "Add a note to my last meeting with Marcus Lee: discussed Q3 partnership opportunities, follow up next week.",
        "scenario": "Post-meeting note capture"
      },
      {
        "title": "Bulk tag contacts by company",
        "prompt": "Find all my contacts at Acme Corp and tag them as 'client'.",
        "scenario": "Network organisation and segmentation"
      }
    ],
    "output_examples": [
      {
        "input": "What meetings do I have on my Outlook calendar this week?",
        "output": [
          "Monday: 10:00 AM — Team standup, 2:00 PM — Client call with Acme",
          "Tuesday: 9:30 AM — Project review, 3:00 PM — 1:1 with manager",
          "Wednesday: No meetings scheduled",
          "Thursday: 11:00 AM — External demo, 4:00 PM — Planning session",
          "Friday: 2:00 PM — Weekly retrospective"
        ]
      },
      {
        "input": "Schedule a 30-minute Teams meeting with John next Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon.",
        "output": [
          "Found John Smith in Microsoft Contacts (john.smith@acme.com).",
          "Available slots: Tuesday 2:00 PM, Wednesday 3:30 PM, Wednesday 4:00 PM.",
          "Creating Teams meeting for Wednesday 3:30 PM with John Smith. Meeting link sent to john.smith@acme.com."
        ]
      }
    ],
    "best_practices": [
      "Always call list_connected_integrations first to verify MCP and Microsoft integration status before proceeding.",
      "Use find_available_microsoft_time with attendeeEmails for multi-person meetings to check everyone's availability.",
      "Create a note immediately after any meeting or Teams call to maintain a searchable relationship history.",
      "Use source attribution (sourceLabel) when presenting contact results to clarify which integration the data came from."
    ],
    "anti_patterns": [
      "Do not use create_microsoft_calendar_event without first checking availability with find_available_microsoft_time.",
      "Do not attempt to edit Microsoft contacts directly — use update_contact which routes through the CRM layer.",
      "Do not skip the MCP setup detection step — proceeding without confirming connectivity leads to confusing errors."
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "question": "What is Rarefriend?",
        "answer": "Rarefriend is a relationship management platform that connects your Microsoft Outlook contacts and calendar with notes, tags, and an AI assistant. This skill integrates it into Claude and Codex."
      },
      {
        "question": "Do I need a Rarefriend account?",
        "answer": "Yes. You need to sign up at rarefriend.com, obtain an MCP Client ID and Client Secret, and connect your Microsoft account. The setup guide in references/SETUP.md walks through each step."
      },
      {
        "question": "Can I edit Outlook contacts directly?",
        "answer": "No. Microsoft contacts are read-only through this skill. Edits go through the update_contact CRM tool, which syncs changes back to Outlook."
      },
      {
        "question": "Where are notes stored?",
        "answer": "Notes are stored in Rarefriend, not in Outlook. They persist even if you disconnect your Microsoft integration."
      },
      {
        "question": "Does this work with Google Calendar?",
        "answer": "No, this skill is Outlook-specific. For Google Calendar and Contacts, install the schedule-with-google-calendar and organize-google-contacts skills instead."
      },
      {
        "question": "Is my data sent to third parties?",
        "answer": "Data flows between your AI client, the Rarefriend MCP server, and your Microsoft account. No external third-party endpoints are used beyond these integrations."
      }
    ]
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