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name: al-094-weekly-staff-schedule-from-your-sales-forecast
description: "Build next week's shift schedule from staff availability, expected sales and overtime limits, like Toast's Scheduling Agent for restaurants, which Toast says cut overtime hours per employee by 41% in beta. Use when the user wants help with staff scheduling (operations) for a small business."
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# Weekly staff schedule from your sales forecast

Build next week's shift schedule from staff availability, expected sales and overtime limits, like Toast's Scheduling Agent for restaurants, which Toast says cut overtime hours per employee by 41% in beta.

## Inputs to collect first
Ask the user for anything below that they haven't already given you. Don't guess missing facts.

- Name, role, max hours, availability, hours already worked this pay…
- Sales by day and hour last few weeks, or your forecast
- Minimum staff per shift by role, opening/closing needs, overtime…

## Instructions

Do the task below with the user's inputs in place of each [bracket].

Build next week's staff schedule. Staff: [paste: name, role, max hours, availability, hours already worked this pay period]. Expected busy times: [paste: sales by day and hour last few weeks, or your forecast]. Rules: [minimum staff per shift by role, opening/closing needs, overtime starts at X hours]. Give me a day-by-day schedule table, total hours per person, anyone at risk of overtime, and any shift that's under- or over-staffed compared with expected sales. Explain any trade-offs in one or two lines.

## Safety checks (share these with the user)

- Check hours, breaks, overtime and any rules for young workers against your local labour law and staff contracts before you publish a schedule.
- Remove names, contact details, account numbers and other personal data the task doesn't need before you paste, and check your AI tool's data and training settings.
- Check names, dates, numbers and any claim against your own source material before you use the answer. AI can misread or invent details.
- Say clearly which parts need a person to review or approve before anything is sent, paid, posted or filed.

## About this skill

- Works with: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google Sheets/Excel, Toast IQ, 7shifts, Homebase
- Based on this real-world example: https://www.nrn.com/restaurant-technology/toast-unveils-an-array-of-new-ai-agents-for-restaurants
- Free prompt from AgentPlaybook Real Estate: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/prompt/al-094-weekly-staff-schedule-from-your-sales-forecast/
- To install in an agent that supports Agent Skills, save this file as SKILL.md in a folder with the same name as `name` above (for example in your skills directory). Install steps for Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/skills/