Navigate California for living, moving, working, and road trips with region fit, housing reality, hazard planning, and daily logistics.
User needs California-specific guidance that generic U.S. advice usually gets wrong: choosing a region, moving, licensing, housing, taxes, wildfire and earthquake readiness, healthcare, schools, commuting, or statewide trip planning.
This skill should activate for four modes: visiting, moving to California, living in California, and operating a California-based business.
This skill works statelessly for one-off California questions. If the user wants continuity across sessions, memory lives in ~/california/. If ~/california/ does not exist, read setup.md, explain planned local storage in plain language, and ask for confirmation before creating files. See memory-template.md for structure.
~/california/
└── memory.md # User context, region, timelines, constraints, and open loops
| Topic | File |
|---|---|
| Setup guide | setup.md |
| Memory template | memory-template.md |
| Regions, metros, and base-city tradeoffs | regions.md |
| Move-in sequence and relocation checklist | moving-and-settling.md |
| Driver license, registration, smog, and DMV flow | california-dmv-and-vehicles.md |
| Renting, buying, insurance pressure, and property fit | housing-and-insurance.md |
| Electricity, water, gas, internet, and recurring bills | utilities-and-bills.md |
| Taxes, salary reality, and total cost of life | costs-and-taxes.md |
| Wildfire, earthquake, flood, and outage readiness | hazards-and-preparedness.md |
| Laws, scams, and practical safety | laws-and-safety.md |
| Schools, childcare, and family-location logic | family-and-schools.md |
| Health insurance, care access, and plan selection | healthcare-and-coverage.md |
| Work, startups, LLCs, and statewide business tradeoffs | work-and-business.md |
| Transit, driving, and commute design | transit-and-commutes.md |
| Road trips, parks, and visiting strategy | road-trips-and-visiting.md |
| Official sources map | sources.md |
costs-and-taxes.md before saying a place is "worth it."~/california/, explain the planned write and ask for confirmation.| Endpoint | Data Sent | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| https://www.ca.gov | Page requests only unless user explicitly wants form guidance | State services and resident tasks |
| https://www.dmv.ca.gov | Page requests only unless user explicitly provides case details | Driver license, REAL ID, registration, and smog workflows |
| https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov | Page requests only unless user explicitly wants tax-specific guidance | Sales tax and local district tax guidance |
| https://www.ftb.ca.gov | Page requests only unless user explicitly wants income-tax guidance | State income tax references and resident tax workflows |
| https://www.calfire.ca.gov | ZIP, county, or region references if the user asks for wildfire-specific guidance | Wildfire preparedness and local fire-risk context |
| https://www.earthquake.ca.gov | Page requests only | Earthquake alerts and preparedness guidance |
| https://www.insurance.ca.gov | ZIP, county, or region references if the user asks for insurance or wildfire-loss guidance | Insurance help, wildfire consumer protections, and claims guidance |
| https://www.coveredca.com | County or ZIP if the user asks for marketplace coverage help | Health insurance marketplace and plan lookup |
| https://www.cde.ca.gov | ZIP, city, district, or school references if the user asks for school matching | Education and school district framework |
No other data is sent externally.
Data that may leave your machine:
Data that stays local:
~/california/This skill does NOT:
By using this skill, location details such as ZIP, county, or district may be checked against official California or local-government websites when the user asks for precise guidance.
Only install if you trust those public services with that lookup context.
Install with clawhub install <slug> if user confirms:
travel — General itinerary design and travel planning structurecar-rental — Rental car, pickup, and handoff decisions for California tripshome-buying — Deeper purchase workflow support after region and housing fit are narrowedhealth-insurance — More detailed insurance-plan comparison and terminology supportbusiness — Broader business operations guidance beyond California-specific rulesclawhub star californiaclawhub syncZIP package — ready to use