Power Outage Work Continuity Card

SKILL.md

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name: power-outage-work-continuity-card
description: "Create a power outage work continuity card with priority tasks, offline files, safe charging plan, backup workspace, recovery order, and message templates while avoiding risky travel and unsafe generator guidance."
---

# Power Outage Work Continuity Card

## Purpose

Help the user keep essential work, school, or admin commitments moving when a power outage is forecast, active, or recently ended. The deliverable is a continuity card with priority tasks, battery and charging plan, offline files, backup workspace, communication templates, and recovery order.

This is a prompt-only planning workflow. It is not a general emergency plan, not a food or fridge safety guide, and not instructions for generator use. It should prioritize safe charging, local emergency guidance, and avoiding risky travel.

## Use This Skill When

Use this skill when the user wants to:

- Prepare for a forecast outage before a workday, exam, deadline, meeting, call, client delivery, payroll task, or school submission.
- Decide what must be done now, what can be offline, and what can wait until power returns.
- Save key files, links, phone numbers, passwords through a legitimate password manager, and reference materials for offline access.
- Plan a safe backup workspace such as home battery setup, office, library, campus, coworking space, trusted neighbor, or mobile hotspot area.
- Draft messages to clients, managers, teachers, teammates, customers, or family about availability and deadlines.
- Recover after power returns without losing track of pending commitments.

Do not use this skill for food safety, refrigerator timing, carbon monoxide guidance beyond simple generator safety warnings, electrical repair, utility restoration estimates, disaster rescue, medical device power planning, or travel into unsafe conditions.

## Best Inputs

Ask only for practical continuity details. If details are missing, proceed with assumptions and review flags.

- Outage status: forecast, flickering, active outage, rolling outage, or post-outage recovery.
- Time window and location context, if the user chooses to share it.
- Critical commitments: meetings, deadlines, exams, schoolwork, payroll, client deliverables, forms, customer support, caregiving coordination, or travel admin.
- Devices: laptop, phone, tablet, hotspot, router, monitor, power bank, UPS, car charger, or battery station.
- Current battery levels and estimated runtime if known.
- Connectivity options: mobile data, hotspot, offline files, paper notes, or backup Wi-Fi location.
- Backup workspace options that are safe, reachable, open, and suitable.
- People to notify and preferred tone.

Do not ask for passwords, account recovery codes, payment details, private client data, or exact home address unless it is essential and the user volunteers it.

## Workflow

1. **Set outage status and safety frame.** State that the card is for work continuity and that safety comes before deadlines.
2. **List critical commitments.** Capture due time, impact, owner, required device, required connectivity, and fallback.
3. **Sort tasks.** Label each task as do now, prep offline, delegate, notify, defer, or recover later.
4. **Build the offline kit.** Save files, drafts, calendar details, meeting numbers, reference docs, local copies, forms, phone numbers, and notes needed without power or Wi-Fi.
5. **Create a safe charging plan.** Prioritize phone, laptop, hotspot, and power bank. Use undamaged chargers, dry locations, manufacturer-approved equipment, and avoid overloaded cords or damaged batteries.
6. **Select backup workspaces.** Choose only safe, legal, reachable, and open locations. Avoid risky travel, flooded roads, closed roads, severe weather, unsafe neighborhoods, or violating local instructions.
7. **Draft notifications.** Prepare short messages for delays, limited availability, rescheduling, and restored access.
8. **Plan recovery order.** When power returns, sync files, confirm sent messages, rejoin deadlines, update stakeholders, recharge safely, and log unresolved tasks.
9. **Produce the card.** Keep it compact enough to screenshot, print, or copy into a note.

## Output Format

Return the card in this order:

1. **Outage Continuity Snapshot**

| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Outage status | |
| Estimated work window | |
| Highest-risk commitment | |
| Devices and battery levels | |
| Connectivity options | |
| Safe backup locations | |
| Assumptions | |

2. **Priority Task Board**

| Priority | Task or commitment | Due time | Needs power? | Needs internet? | Action now | Fallback owner or plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | | | | | |
| 2 | | | | | | |
| 3 | | | | | | |

3. **Continuity Card**

```text
POWER OUTAGE WORK CONTINUITY CARD
Do now:
Save offline:
Charge first:
Connectivity fallback:
Backup workspace:
People to notify:
Message to send:
Stop-work safety trigger:
Recovery order:
```

4. **Offline Kit Checklist**

Use checkboxes:

```text
[ ] Download critical files and references
[ ] Save drafts locally
[ ] Copy meeting links, dial-in numbers, and calendar details
[ ] Save important contact numbers
[ ] Prepare hotspot or mobile data settings if available
[ ] Print or screenshot essential instructions
[ ] Sync work before power drops, if possible
[ ] Close nonessential apps to preserve battery
[ ] Pack charger, cable, power bank, notebook, and pen
```

5. **Safe Charging and Workspace Notes**

Include concise notes:

- Charge essential devices first: phone, laptop, hotspot, and power bank.
- Use undamaged chargers, cables, power banks, and outlets only.
- Keep charging equipment dry and avoid overloaded extension cords or power strips.
- Do not run a generator indoors, in a garage, on a balcony, near windows, or in any poorly ventilated area.
- Do not use a vehicle, public charger, or backup workspace in a way that creates safety, theft, weather, or road risks.
- Follow local emergency, utility, school, workplace, and building instructions.

6. **Message Templates**

Provide short templates:

```text
Limited availability:
Power is out in my area, so I may be slower to respond. I have saved the key files offline and will update you by [time].

Deadline adjustment:
I am affected by a power outage and may need to shift [deliverable] from [old time] to [new time]. I can send [partial item] now if useful.

Meeting fallback:
If my connection drops, please continue without me on [topic]. I will send notes or decisions by [time].

Power restored:
Power is back. I am syncing files now and will confirm any delayed items by [time].
```

7. **Recovery Order**

List the first five actions after power returns, such as:

1. Confirm personal safety and stable power before restarting work.
2. Charge essential devices safely.
3. Sync local files and check unsent drafts.
4. Send status updates to affected people.
5. Rebuild the task board for anything missed or deferred.

8. **Open Questions**

List missing outage window, task deadlines, device battery levels, connectivity options, backup locations, stakeholder contacts, or workplace policies.

## Message Style

- Keep the card urgent, calm, and practical.
- Focus on preserving commitments without taking unsafe risks.
- Use tables, checkboxes, and message templates.
- Make assumptions explicit and easy to revise.
- Separate work continuity from general emergency prep and food safety.
- Recommend official local guidance for outage, weather, road, utility, medical, school, and workplace questions.

## Safety Boundary

- Do not provide electrical repair instructions, generator setup instructions, fuel storage instructions, or risky charging hacks.
- Do not suggest running generators indoors, in garages, on balconies, near windows, or in poorly ventilated spaces.
- Do not suggest driving through storms, floods, downed wires, blocked roads, or unsafe areas to keep working.
- Do not make food safety, refrigerator, freezer, or medication-storage recommendations; redirect those topics to official local guidance or qualified sources.
- If the user relies on powered medical equipment, advise contacting local emergency services, the utility medical baseline program if available, a clinician, caregiver, or local emergency management rather than relying on this work card.
- If there are downed wires, fire, flooding, gas smell, carbon monoxide alarm, structural damage, or immediate danger, prioritize emergency services and evacuation instructions over work continuity.

## Example Prompts

- "Make a power outage work card for a forecast outage tomorrow morning."
- "The power is out and I have a client deadline. Help me triage what to do first."
- "Create message templates for my manager and team during a rolling outage."
- "Build an offline kit checklist for schoolwork before the storm hits."