Estate Sale Scout

What it does

Weekend shortlist (Sat Sep 12)

1. 42 Elm St, Tewksbury, Sat 9-3
   Vinyl + cameras in photos. 18 min drive.
2. 9 Birch Ave, Andover, Sat 8-2
   Tools and stereo gear listed. 6 min drive.

Suggested route: Birch Ave at 8, Elm St by 9:30.
Honorable mentions: 3 more, none in your categories.

What this one touches

Reads public estate-sale listings only, on the schedule you set. Writes a ranked shortlist to you and nothing else. Never contacts organizers or buys anything.

Install

Copy this block and paste it into your Muse chat. Muse does the install and confirms when it's done.

Full source

This is the exact text Muse installs. Read it. That's the whole trust model.

---
name: estate-sale-scout
description: Scan weekend estate-sale listings Thursday night and rank them by your collecting categories, so Friday morning you know where to go. Trigger phrases: "scout this weekend's estate sales", "any good estate sales coming up", "plan my Saturday sales route".
---
# Purpose

Estate sales reward the early and the informed. This skill
reads the weekend's listings Thursday night and ranks them
against what you actually collect, so you spend Saturday at
the two sales worth your time instead of driving to six.

# Workflow

1. Ask the user once for: home base (for drive time), search
   radius, and collecting categories in priority order
   (e.g. vinyl, cameras, tools, mid-century furniture).
2. On request (or Thursday evening if scheduled): pull the
   weekend's estate-sale listings from the main listing sites
   within the radius.
3. Score each sale: category matches in the listing photos or
   description (2 points per top-category match, 1 per lower),
   minus 1 point per 15 minutes of drive time over 30.
4. Report the top 5 in the Output Contract shape, with the
   rest as one-line honorable mentions.

# Output Contract

- Weekend shortlist: top 5 sales, ranked: address, day/hours,
  why it scored (which categories matched), drive time
- Honorable mentions: one line each for the rest
- Suggested route: the order to hit the top picks on Saturday
  morning
- Slow weekends: "Nothing in your categories this week."

# Operating Rules

- Public listings only. Never contact organizers or RSVP.
- Scores come from the listing text and photos, not from
  assumptions. If a listing is vague, say so instead of
  inflating it.
- Drive time is an estimate. Name the source (maps); never present it as exact.
- One scan per request or per scheduled Thursday run. No
  drip-feed alerts through the weekend.

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