Today's Agent Skill: Deadline Radar
What It Does
Commitments get buried in threads, docs, and chat — you promise a deliverable on Tuesday and rediscover it Friday afternoon. Nobody tracks the small promises, and those are the ones that erode trust. Deadline Radar sweeps your written trail and surfaces every date-bearing commitment you made or received.
How It Works
The skill scans a supplied text corpus for commitment language paired with temporal references, resolves relative dates against the current date, and attributes each item to an owner. It outputs a sorted obligation register with confidence flags on ambiguous dates.
How to Deploy It
Save the SKILL.md block below to `~/.claude/skills/deadline-radar/SKILL.md` (or your agent's skill directory) and restart the agent so it indexes the trigger phrases. Invoke it by pasting a thread, doc, or transcript and saying "run deadline radar on this."
SKILL.md — Ready to Deploy
# Deadline Radar
## Description
Extracts every explicit and implied commitment with a time component from unstructured text — email threads, meeting transcripts, chat logs, project docs — and returns a sorted obligation register with owner, due date, source quote, and confidence rating. Built for people who make dozens of small promises a week and track none of them.
## Trigger
Activates on: deadline radar, find my commitments, what did I promise, extract deadlines, who owes what, commitment scan, obligation register. Also triggers when a user pastes a long thread and asks what they need to do, even without naming the skill.
## Input
- **Required:** raw text corpus (thread, transcript, doc, or concatenation of several).
- **Optional:** `reference_date` (defaults to today), `owner_identity` (names/aliases that mean "me"), `scope` (`mine` | `theirs` | `all`, defaults to `all`).
## Steps
1. Establish the reference date. Every relative expression resolves against it.
2. Segment the corpus into utterances with speaker and timestamp attribution where available.
3. Flag utterances containing commitment verbs (will, going to, I'll have, can get you, plan to, by then, ship, send, deliveCopy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.