temporal-cortex

What This Skill Does

The temporal-cortex skill serves as the intelligent backbone for all time-based and calendar-centric operations within OpenClaw. It functions as a sophisticated routing engine that orchestrates interactions between your AI agent and various calendar providers, including Google, Outlook, and CalDAV. By abstracting the complexity of cross-platform scheduling, it ensures that your agent can seamlessly manage, query, and synchronize appointments across fragmented personal and professional ecosystems. The skill is built on a high-performance Rust-based MCP server, leveraging atomic booking mechanisms and cross-provider availability merging to eliminate the common pitfalls of manual calendar management. Whether you are performing timezone math, resolving vague scheduling requests, or executing a Two-Phase Commit to secure a booking, temporal-cortex handles the heavy lifting.

Installation

To install this skill, use the ClawHub registry command in your terminal. Ensure your OpenClaw environment is initialized before running the following:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/billylui/temporal-cortex

Once installed, the skill will automatically wire itself into your agent’s capabilities. For scheduling tasks that require calendar access, ensure you provide the necessary OAuth credentials to the underlying MCP server to enable write and sync permissions.

Use Cases

• Unified Schedule Management: Consolidate your work Outlook and personal Google calendars into a single source of truth that your AI can reason about.
• Complex Availability Resolution: Ask your agent to find a 30-minute window for a meeting across multiple timezones that works for all stakeholders.
• Automated Scheduling: Empower your agent to book, reschedule, or cancel meetings based on natural language commands without manual clicking.
• Timezone Conversion: Automatically reconcile scheduling conflicts when coordinating with global teams by letting the agent perform accurate duration and offset math.

Example Prompts

1. "Check my availability for next Tuesday between 9 AM and 5 PM EST and find a 1-hour slot for a team sync with Sarah."
2. "I have a meeting in London at 10 AM GMT. Convert that to my current local time and add it to my Outlook calendar."
3. "List all my recurring meetings for the rest of the week and identify if there are any overlaps that I should resolve."

Tips & Limitations

• Credential Security: Always ensure your OAuth tokens are scoped correctly. Do not share your primary calendar credentials with unauthorized environments.
• Resolution Accuracy: While temporal-cortex is excellent at resolving time, always verify critical bookings when dealing with complex recurring patterns or multiple timezones.
• Offline Usage: Note that while temporal-cortex-datetime is available offline, calendar scheduling features require active internet connectivity to communicate with your calendar providers via API.