Apartment Cleaning Booking

At a Glance

• Service: Professional apartment cleaning
• Area: San Francisco only
• Rate: $40/hour (1–8 hours)
• Days: Any day of the week on/after 2026-05-05. Before then, Saturdays and Sundays only.
• Hours: 8 AM – 6 PM PT
• Payment: No upfront payment. The customer pays the cleaner (cash or card) at the appointment.

How This Skill Works

This skill calls the claw.cleaning REST API directly over HTTPS — no local CLI, no MCP server.

• Base URL: https://claw.cleaning
• Auth: None. All endpoints are public.
• Content type: application/json

Use the agent's HTTP/fetch capability (e.g. curl, fetch, requests) to call the endpoints below.

Available Endpoints

• GET /availability — list open slots
• POST /bookings/initiate — reserve a slot (calendar invite sent immediately, customer pays the cleaner at the appointment)
• GET /bookings/status — list upcoming bookings by email

Safety Rules

• Never POST /bookings/initiate without showing the full preview to the customer and getting explicit confirmation ("yes", "confirm", "book it", etc.).
• Always GET /availability before POST /bookings/initiate to confirm the slot is listed as available.
• Do not invent available times — only offer times returned by GET /availability.
• Make it clear to the customer that the total ($40/hour × hours) is paid in cash or card to the cleaner at the end of the session.

Booking Workflow

Step 1 — Check availability

GET https://claw.cleaning/availability returns the next 14 upcoming bookable days under a top-level days array. Pass ?date=YYYY-MM-DD to check one specific day. Before 2026-05-05 the date must be a Saturday or Sunday; on or after, any day of the week is bookable.

Examples:

GET https://claw.cleaning/availability
GET https://claw.cleaning/availability?date=2026-05-06

Present the available slots clearly. Each slot shows startTime and maxHours available.

Step 2 — Collect customer details

Ask the customer:

• Which date and start time?
• How many hours? (1–8, $40 each)
• Full SF address (street, city, state)
• Their name
• Their email (calendar invite goes here)

Step 3 — Confirm before booking

Show the customer a summary (date, start time, hours, address, total, email) and remind them the total is paid to the cleaner at the appointment. Ask for explicit confirmation before posting the booking.

Step 4 — Initiate booking

POST https://claw.cleaning/bookings/initiate with a JSON body:

{
  "date": "YYYY-MM-DD",
  "startTime": "HH:MM",
  "hours": 1-8,
  "address": "... San Francisco, CA ...",
  "name": "Customer Name",
  "email": "customer@example.com"
}

Send Content-Type: application/json. On success returns { "status": "booked", "total": "$X", ... }. The slot is reserved immediately and the calendar invite is sent.

Step 5 — Deliver the outcome

Tell the customer the slot is booked, the calendar invite is on its way, and they owe the cleaner $40/hour at the end of the session (cash or card).

Step 6 — Check status (optional)

GET https://claw.cleaning/bookings/status?email=<url-encoded-email> if the customer asks whether their booking went through. Returns upcoming bookings for that email.

Key Details

• Working hours: 8 AM – 6 PM PT
• 30-min travel buffers are automatically blocked before and after each cleaning
• The calendar event blocks the slot immediately on booking
• Persistent no-shows may result in the email being blocked from future bookings

Error Handling

All errors return a JSON body with an error field and a non-2xx HTTP status.

• 400 "Address must be in San Francisco, CA." → ask for a valid SF address
• 400 "Hours must be between 1 and 8." → correct the hours value
• 400 "Weekdays before 2026-05-05 are not bookable..." → pick a Saturday/Sunday, or any day on or after 2026-05-05
• 400 "Cannot book a time in the past..." → pick a future date and time
• 400 "Invalid date format. Use YYYY-MM-DD." / "Invalid startTime format. Use HH:MM (24h)." → fix the format
• 400 "Invalid email address." → ask for a valid email
• 403 "This email is blocked from booking." (code: "email_blocked") → the operator has blocked this email due to prior no-shows. Customer should contact connor@getcolby.com.
• 409 "That time slot is no longer available." → call GET /availability and offer alternatives
• 500 "Failed to fetch availability." / "Failed to initiate booking." / "Could not create calendar event." → retry once; if it keeps failing, tell the customer to try again later

See references/booking-flow.md for a full example conversation flow with sample HTTP requests and responses.