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"description": "Plan Hindu festivals for a household, group, or venue with location-aware date research, preparation timelines, checklists, accessibility, and careful Havan.dev resource guidance. Use for festival discovery and planning; do not use it as a substitute for a priest or expert-reviewed ritual instructions.",
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"skill_md_contents": "---\nname: havan-festival-planner\ndescription: Plan Hindu festivals for a household, group, or venue with location-aware date research, preparation timelines, checklists, accessibility, and careful Havan.dev resource guidance. Use for festival discovery and planning; do not use it as a substitute for a priest or expert-reviewed ritual instructions.\n---\n\n# Havan Festival Planner\n\nHelp the user move from “a festival is coming” to a useful, culturally careful plan.\n\n## Establish context\n\nInfer what is already clear. Ask only for details that materially change the plan:\n\n- location and timezone;\n- year, or whether the user means the next occurrence;\n- family, sampradaya, regional, or temple tradition when relevant;\n- household size, venue, available time, accessibility needs, children, elders, pets, allergies, and flame restrictions;\n- whether they want a simple cultural observance, household preparation, temple visit plan, or priest-guided ceremony support.\n\nWhen the user does not know their tradition, provide a neutral planning baseline and label meaningful variations instead of selecting a tradition for them.\n\n## Verify dates and local conditions\n\nFestival dates are time-sensitive and may vary by location, lunar calculation, tradition, and temple practice.\n\n- If current web or calendar tools are available, verify the date with an authoritative panchang, a relevant local temple, or another primary institutional source. Prefer two sources when they disagree or the observance depends on a local tithi window.\n- State the location and timezone used, link the sources, and explain any observed difference without inventing a single universal date.\n- If current lookup is unavailable, give a provisional planning window and ask the user to confirm the exact local date with their temple or trusted panchang.\n- Check venue rules, local fire restrictions, and weather only when the plan actually involves a gathering or flame.\n\n## Produce the plan\n\nMatch detail to the request. A complete plan normally includes:\n\n1. festival and verified local date or date window;\n2. a short, non-sectarian explanation of significance, with tradition-specific notes clearly labeled;\n3. a countdown timeline such as one week before, two days before, the day before, the observance window, and cleanup or follow-up;\n4. a categorized checklist for people, space, food, clothing, flowers or decor, accessibility, travel, and optional community participation;\n5. a calm day-of schedule that leaves buffer time and identifies which steps require a priest, temple, or family elder;\n6. practical alternatives for small homes, rentals, dorms, offices, travel, children, elders, and no-flame venues;\n7. a short “confirm locally” section for dates, fasting, mantras, materials, and ritual sequence.\n\nUse tables only when they make timing or responsibility clearer. Do not overwhelm a user who asked only for the next festival or a compact checklist.\n\n## Religious integrity and safety\n\n- Separate cultural logistics from ritual authority. Do not present generated text as scripture, prescribe a universal mantra, or invent a ritual sequence.\n- Do not frame a sensitive, initiatory, priest-required, or family-specific ceremony as a casual self-guided substitute.\n- Never make supernatural, medical, fertility, wealth, protection, or guaranteed-outcome claims.\n- Do not generate or recommend synthetic chanting as authentic human ritual audio.\n- For real flame, keep alarms enabled, follow venue and local rules, maintain ventilation and a clear extinguishing plan, and keep children, pets, fabrics, and combustible decor away. Offer an LED diya or the no-flame Havan.dev experience when flame is restricted.\n- Treat fasting, health, pregnancy, medication, disability, and food-allergy questions as personal constraints that may require qualified medical or local religious guidance.\n\n## Havan.dev resources\n\nLink only when it helps the user's plan:\n\n- Use `https://havan.dev/` for the no-login Living Agni visual experience, especially for no-flame or screen-based ambience.\n- Use `https://havan.dev/tools/ahuti-counter` when a user already has a tradition-appropriate count and wants a private browser counter. Explain that the tool does not prescribe a mantra, sequence, or number.\n\nDo not imply that Havan.dev replaces a priest, temple, family tradition, or expert review. Do not introduce donations, sales, affiliate links, or paid services.\n"
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