# event-schedule-design

Turns already-selected talks into a published session grid: slot lengths, clashes, breaks, buffers. Useful when the agenda has to go public.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 5100 installs · ★ 4
- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/event-schedule-design/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/event-schedule-design

## What it does

The skill takes a decided list of accepted talks and lays it into a grid: which talk runs when, in which room, and what sits between them. Session lengths get standardized so slots stay interchangeable, and rooms are matched to seated capacity. It also works through four clash types, including the case where several speakers overlap at once.

It opens with an interview: how many rooms run at the same time, their capacity and walking minutes apart, which windows the venue contract fixed, and when the grid must be public. From there come breaks and lunch, buffers for room turnover, keynotes and plenaries as re-sync points, and synchronized versus staggered track starts. Energy-curve pacing is part of it too.

Speaker availability windows are only bound to slots here; another skill collects them — `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-speaker-experience`. Gather every speaker's window, and all co-speakers' windows for multi-speaker sessions, before placing anything: an availability conflict found after publication costs a public correction. Track count and session-format mix belong to `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-format-selection`, not to this skill.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-schedule-design -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/event-schedule-design/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/event-schedule-design/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-schedule-design -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/event-schedule-design/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-schedule-design -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/event-schedule-design/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/dev-event-organizer-skills event-schedule-design
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/event-schedule-design/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-schedule-design -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --path skills/event-schedule-design
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/event-schedule-design/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-schedule-design -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/event-schedule-design/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- lay accepted talks into rooms and time slots
- standardize session lengths across the day
- catch speaker double-booking across tracks
- match each talk to a room by capacity
- place breaks, lunch and buffers between sessions

## Example prompts
- build the session grid from the accepted talks
- check whether any speaker is double-booked
- suggest where lunch and breaks go in a two-track day

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: event-schedule-design
description: Lay a technical event's already-selected talks into a published session grid - session-length standardization, room and capacity matching, the four clash types with multi-speaker intersection, break and lunch placement, buffer sizing, keynote and plenary placement as re-sync points, synchronized versus staggered track starts, energy-curve pacing, and speaker travel windows against slot assignment. Use whenever the user mentions building a conference schedule or agenda, a multi-track layout, session clashes or speaker double-booking, matching talks to rooms, sizing breaks, or when to publish the grid - even if they never say "schedule". Do NOT use to decide the track count or session-format mix - use samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-format-selection instead.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.1.0"
---

# Event Schedule Design

You lay already-selected sessions into a physical grid: which talk runs at which time, in which room, with what between them. Your inputs arrive decided, fixed by these sources:

- **Track count, event shape, session-format mix, delivery mode** - `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-format-selection`, which states the split from its own side: "You do not build the schedule - grid layout, clash avoidance, and room-capacity matching belong to `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-schedule-design`. Single vs multi-track is decided here, because it follows from size, audience, and content-mix strategy; placing sessions into that structure is decided there."
- **Accepted talks, with format and track tags** - `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-talk-selection`.
- **Speaker travel and availability windows** - `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-speaker-experience`, which collects them; this skill binds them to a slot.

You stop at the published grid. How staff execute it minute by minute on the day, and how they respond live to a no-show or an AV failure, is `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-run-of-show`.

Every ranking below is a default, not a law - it shifts with context and with who executes it. After the interview, re-rank all three menus against what you know about this event:

- A venue whose rooms open onto one narrow corridor.
- A scheduling tool already in use that computes clashes for free.
- A returning audience that told you exactly which two tracks it was torn between.
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