---
id: known-bugs/calendar-skill-never-used-by-an-agent
title: 'The calendar/contacts skill has never been exercised by an actual agent'
theme: known-bugs
status: open
created: 2026-08-27
date_source: stated
order: 9
---

Every recipe in `plugins/caldav/skills/calendar-and-contacts/SKILL.md` was **run by hand** against
alpha's real data and works: create `201`, move `204`, delete `200`, contact create and delete, and the
JSON read for lookups. Isolation was proven too — own account `207`/`201`, another account `403`, spoofed
username `401`.

**What has never happened is an agent reading the skill and acting on a sentence.** "I'm having dinner
Saturday with my wife, add that" has not been said in a chat. A skill can be entirely correct and still
not get picked up — wrong description, wrong trigger words, or simply not surfaced — and that failure
looks identical to the feature not existing.

Five minutes to test, on this machine or alpha. Until it is done, the feature is unproven rather than
working.

The trap it was written to prevent, worth re-checking in the transcript when it IS tested: `date -u -d`
does not convert local to UTC — it parses AND prints as UTC, so "Saturday at 8" becomes 20:00Z, an hour
late in Lisbon. If an agent gets that wrong, the skill's wording is not strong enough.