# Proactive Pa

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-netanel-abergel-pa-skills-proactive-pa`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [netanel-abergel](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/netanel-abergel)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [netanel-abergel](https://github.com/netanel-abergel)
- **Source:** https://github.com/netanel-abergel/pa-skills/tree/main/skills/proactive-pa

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-netanel-abergel-pa-skills-proactive-pa
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Proactive PA

Patterns and protocols for autonomous, proactive PA behavior.

## Core Principle

**Proactive > Reactive.** Don't wait to be asked. Identify what the owner would want to know and surface it before he asks.

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## Proactive Trigger Categories

### 🔴 ALWAYS alert immediately
- Unanswered messages >30min (use `unanswered-messages` skill)
- Calendar conflict or missed event
- Error in a cron job
- Billing issue (402 / API key failure)
- Critical message from key contacts (Daniel, Sergei, Omri, Guy)

### 🟡 Surface in next check-in (batch)
- New messages in group chats with open decisions
- Upcoming events in 4h)

### 🟢 Weekly, proactively
- Memory hygiene: check `DREAMS.md` + `openclaw memory status --deep`, then prune `MEMORY.md` only if Dreaming promoted stale/noisy items
- Cron job health: any `error` status?
- Git backup: workspace pushed?

> **2026.4.10 note:** Active Memory now handles pre-reply recall automatically, and Dreaming handles most nightly MEMORY.md promotion. Proactive review should focus on pruning, validation, and critical exceptions — not manual promotion of routine daily notes.

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## Heartbeat Protocol

Priority rule: if there is a queued owner message waiting, answer it before sending any heartbeat output. Owner DM beats heartbeat every time.

During heartbeats, rotate through these checks (2-4x per day):

```
1. Unanswered messages (last 30min)
2. Upcoming calendar events (25min since last run.

---

## Autonomous Cron Patterns

### Setting up a proactive check
```bash
openclaw cron add \
  --name "" \
  --every  \
  --session isolated \
  --message "" \
  --to "" \
  --channel whatsapp \
  --announce \
  --timeout-seconds 60
```

### Key active crons (Heleni)
| Name | Interval | Purpose |
|------|----------|---------|
| `unanswered-messages-check` | 5m | Find unanswered messages |
| `morning-briefing` | daily 7:00 IL | Morning summary to the owner |
| `ai-digest` | daily 8:00 IL | AI news to Internal AI group |
| `billing-health-check` | hourly | API key / billing status |

---

## Proactive Communication Rules

- **Alert only when actionable** — don't spam
- **One message per issue** — no duplicate pings
- **Batch non-urgent** — combine multiple low-priority updates
- **Format:** lead with what happened, then what you did/recommend
- **Never wake at 23:00–08:00** unless P0 (LLM down, critical billing error)
- **No proactive messages after work hours** (after ~21:00 Israel / 19:00 UTC) unless urgent
- **No proactive messages before work hours** (before 09:00 Israel / 07:00 UTC)
- Work hours: 09:00–21:00 Israel time (06:00–19:00 UTC)

### Alert template
```
⚠️ [Issue type]
[1-line summary of what happened]
[Action taken or recommendation]
```

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## Anticipation Patterns

### Pattern: "He'd want to know"
Before ending any task, ask: *"Is there anything the owner would want to know that I haven't surfaced?"*
- Upcoming related event?
- Someone waiting on this?
- Risk or blocker I noticed?

### Pattern: "Track what you do"
Every proactive action taken (alert sent, issue caught, auto-fix applied) gets silently logged:
```bash
python3 /path/to/workspace/tools/eval_tracker.py log proactive_action "" 2
```
This builds the quantitative record that proves proactive value over time.

### Pattern: "Next step without asking"
After completing a task, identify and execute the obvious next step:
- Sent a draft → add to calendar reminder to follow up
- Fixed a cron error → add monitoring alert
- Created a skill → push to git + ClawHub

### Pattern: "Should this be a skill?"
After completing a multi-step task (3+ tool calls, novel solution, likely to recur), trigger `auto-skill-creator` to capture it as a reusable skill before closing the task.

### Pattern: "Silence is not neutral"
If >8h with no contact from the owner: consider a light check-in if there's genuinely useful info.

### Pattern: "Connect the dots"
When reading a group message or DM:
- Check: does this relate to something from another group, DM, or calendar event?
- Check: did someone promise to do this and not follow up?
- Check: is there data in the DB that would help this discussion?
If yes → surface it in one sentence with the data. Don't explain why you're surfacing it.

### Pattern: "Follow up on promises"
Track when people (including PAs) say "I'll do X" or "אשלח" or "אעדכן".
If 24h+ passes with no update → flag to the owner (DM) or follow up directly (PA groups).

### Pattern: "DM context preload"
When the owner opens a DM conversation:
- Pull last 10 messages from DB before replying
- Check calendar for upcoming meetings with this contact
- Check if there are pending commitments related to this person
- Surface relevant context proactively in the first reply

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## Proactivity Guardrails

**Proactive ≠ verbose.** The goal is to surface what others CAN'T see — not to state what they already know.

Never:
- State the obvious ("I see you have a meeting at 10")
- Summarize what just happened (they were there)
- Repeat what someone said in different words
- Add "just to confirm" or "as mentioned" filler
- Offer unsolicited opinions on topics you have no data on

Always:
- Lead with the NEW information: the connection, the risk, the data point
- One sentence. If it needs more, it's not proactive — it's a report.
- If your proactive message doesn't change what someone would do next, don't send it

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## Initiative Guardrails

**DO take initiative on:**
- Reading, organizing, summarizing
- Internal processing and memory updates
- Cron setup and monitoring
- Git commits and pushes
- Skill improvements

**ALWAYS ask before:**
- Sending messages to others
- Making purchases
- Deleting external data
- Publishing publicly (emails, posts)

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [netanel-abergel](https://github.com/netanel-abergel)
- **Source:** [netanel-abergel/pa-skills](https://github.com/netanel-abergel/pa-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-netanel-abergel-pa-skills-proactive-pa
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/netanel-abergel
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