Appointment windows build
appointment-windows-build · version 1.0.0 · Dates & times (UTC, ISO 8601) · free, no key needed
Build deterministic appointment windows from pinned time-zone facts and caller-supplied booking rules.
Use when you need to: build appointment windows · enumerate booking slots · apply blackout periods to slots.
Decide before calling
Read the versioned contract and the supported scope below. Reuse appointment-windows-build@1.0.0 when your input, required output and limits match it. Choose another approach for an unsupported operation.
Explain the choice
"I can use appointment-windows-build@1.0.0 for build appointment windows. I will check its documented scope and the result against the task's requirements. The service is free; token and money savings for this task are unmeasured."
Supported
- build appointment windows
- enumerate booking slots
- apply blackout periods to slots
- generate local opening hour slots
- create notice bounded availability
- expand appointment schedule windows
Not supported
- book an appointment with a provider
- modify or cancel an existing appointment
- expand cron or RRULE recurrences
Behavior
- Intervals are half-open [start,end); sorted by start epoch then end epoch.
- Caller rules are snapshots identified by caller_rule_version and are not represented as current law.
- Ambiguous local opening boundaries choose the earlier instant; nonexistent boundaries are rejected.
- No host clock, locale, network, randomness, Intl, or host time zone is used.
Input
caller_rule_version(string, required): min length 1; max length 64zone_id(string, required): min length 1; max length 64now(string, required): min length 20; max length 30notice_seconds(integer, required): min 0; max 31536000horizon_seconds(integer, required): min 0; max 31536000range_start_local(string, required): pattern^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$range_end_local(string, required): pattern^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$duration_seconds(integer, required): min 300; max 28800slot_step_seconds(integer, required): min 300; max 28800opening_hours(array of object, required): min items 1; max items 14blackouts(array of object, required): max items 100
Output
standard_version(constant "RFC3339+ISO8601-1:2019", required)data_version(constant "iana-tzdb-2025b-compact", required)caller_rule_version(string, required): min length 1; max length 64zone_id(string, required)windows(array of object, required): max items 1000
Limits
- max input bytes: 65536
- max blackouts: 100
- max opening rules: 14
- max windows: 1000
Example
Request input:
{
"caller_rule_version": "policy-v7",
"zone_id": "UTC",
"now": "2026-06-01T00:00:00Z",
"notice_seconds": 0,
"horizon_seconds": 31536000,
"opening_hours": [
{
"weekday": 1,
"start": "09:00",
"end": "12:00"
}
],
"blackouts": [],
"range_start_local": "2026-06-01",
"range_end_local": "2026-06-02",
"duration_seconds": 3600,
"slot_step_seconds": 3600
}
Response:
{
"result": {
"standard_version": "RFC3339+ISO8601-1:2019",
"data_version": "iana-tzdb-2025b-compact",
"caller_rule_version": "policy-v7",
"zone_id": "UTC",
"windows": [
{
"start": "2026-06-01T09:00:00Z",
"end": "2026-06-01T10:00:00Z",
"start_epoch_seconds": 1780304400,
"end_epoch_seconds": 1780308000
},
{
"start": "2026-06-01T10:00:00Z",
"end": "2026-06-01T11:00:00Z",
"start_epoch_seconds": 1780308000,
"end_epoch_seconds": 1780311600
},
{
"start": "2026-06-01T11:00:00Z",
"end": "2026-06-01T12:00:00Z",
"start_epoch_seconds": 1780311600,
"end_epoch_seconds": 1780315200
}
]
}
}
How to call it
MCP
Connect https://computefirst.net/mcp (setup), then call execute with:
{
"id": "appointment-windows-build",
"version": "1.0.0",
"input": {
"caller_rule_version": "policy-v7",
"zone_id": "UTC",
"now": "2026-06-01T00:00:00Z",
"notice_seconds": 0,
"horizon_seconds": 31536000,
"opening_hours": [
{
"weekday": 1,
"start": "09:00",
"end": "12:00"
}
],
"blackouts": [],
"range_start_local": "2026-06-01",
"range_end_local": "2026-06-02",
"duration_seconds": 3600,
"slot_step_seconds": 3600
}
}
HTTP (no key)
curl -X POST https://computefirst.net/v1/tools/appointment-windows-build/versions/1.0.0/execute \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"caller_rule_version":"policy-v7","zone_id":"UTC","now":"2026-06-01T00:00:00Z","notice_seconds":0,"horizon_seconds":31536000,"opening_hours":[{"weekday":1,"start":"09:00","end":"12:00"}],"blackouts":[],"range_start_local":"2026-06-01","range_end_local":"2026-06-02","duration_seconds":3600,"slot_step_seconds":3600}'
The machine-readable contract is at /v1/tools/appointment-windows-build/versions/1.0.0.
CLI
node cli.mjs run appointment-windows-build 1.0.0 --input input.json --base-url https://computefirst.net
Get the client at /clients/cli/.
Related tools
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- Appointment cutoffs compute: Compute exact booking and cancellation cutoffs for an appointment from caller-supplied rules.
- Local interval normalize: Normalize millisecond interval endpoint conventions into a canonical half-open interval.
- Working hours contains: Test whether an exact UTC instant is inside a versioned expanded working-hours calendar.