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cowork-calendar-defrag

Audit your calendar with Cowork's calendar tools -- measure meeting load and fragmentation, identify which recurring meetings earn their slot, propose consolidations and focus blocks, and draft the diplomatic messages that reclaim your week.

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# Cowork Calendar Defrag

Treat the calendar like a disk that needs defragmenting: measure what is actually there, identify waste, consolidate, and carve out contiguous space for real work. Uses the connected calendar tools (Microsoft 365 / Google Calendar) to read events; every change is proposed, and the human approves before anything is created, moved, or declined.

## Workflow

1. **Measure.** Pull the last 4 weeks and the next 2. Compute: hours in meetings per week, longest uninterrupted block per day, fragmentation score (count of gaps under 45 minutes -- too short to do real work, long enough to lose), meetings by type (recurring vs. ad hoc, internal vs. external), and after-hours creep.
2. **Score the recurring load.** For each recurring meeting: duration x frequency x attendee count = weekly cost. Flag candidates against the classic tells -- no agenda in the invite, attendance optional-in-practice, could-be-async status updates, double-booked slots the user routinely skips. External and client meetings are measured but never flagged for cuts without explicit instruction.
3. **Propose the defrag.** A specific plan, not principles: which recurrings to shorten (60 -> 25), consolidate (three 1:1s into office hours), make async, or leave alone; where the 2-3 weekly focus blocks go (matched to when the calendar shows the user actually has energy-adjacent free space, e.g. mornings); and which small gaps to close by nudging meetings adjacent.
4. **Draft the messages.** For each proposed change involving other people: a short, warm, blame-free draft ("I'm consolidating my recurring syncs -- can we fold this into..."). The awkward message is the real barrier to a better calendar; remove it.
5. **Execute on approval.** Create the focus blocks (marked busy, named for the work), send nothing -- updated invites and messages remain drafts for the human to send. Output `calendar-defrag-report.md` with before/after metrics: meeting hours reclaimed, longest block gained.

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