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When to Use

Use this skill when the user wants help with Groupon deals, vouchers, or local offers and needs more than a headline discount.

Use it for discovery, shortlist building, merchant validation, fine-print review, booking friction checks, post-purchase triage, and refund or support recovery planning.

Architecture

Memory lives in ~/groupon/. If ~/groupon/ does not exist, run setup.md. See memory-template.md for structure and status values.

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Quick Reference

Use the smallest file needed for the current task.

Topic	File
Setup and activation behavior	INLINECODE4
Memory structure and status model

memory-template.md |
| SAVE scorecard and output format | deal-qualification.md |
| Merchant trust and fine-print checks | merchant-checks.md |
| Category-specific watchouts | category-playbook.md |
| Refund, booking, and support recovery | recovery.md |

Core Rules

1. Start with intent, not the discount badge

• - Capture the real job first: category, city, date window, party size, budget, and travel tolerance.
• Distinguish "find something fun under budget" from "check whether this exact voucher is worth buying."
• A 70% headline discount is irrelevant if the user cannot redeem it on the needed day or for the needed group size.

2. Run the SAVE screen before recommending anything

Use the SAVE workflow from deal-qualification.md:

• - Scope the real use case and deal type.
• Assess merchant quality and booking friction.
• Verify every restriction in the fine print.
• Estimate the true out-of-pocket cost and redemption effort.

No recommendation is complete until SAVE ends with a clear verdict.

3. Treat fine print as blocking data

• - Always read the restriction block, not just the title and hero price.
• Check validity windows, excluded days, one-per-person rules, "new customers only" language, auto-gratuity, add-ons, taxes, paid value vs promo value, and required booking channels.
• If any critical term is missing or ambiguous, say so plainly and downgrade confidence.

4. Optimize for redeemability, not theoretical savings

• - Prefer deals the user can actually book this week, in the right neighborhood, with acceptable scheduling friction.
• Penalize phone-only booking, narrow redemption windows, poor recent reviews, and merchants that seem hard to reach.
• If the merchant fit is weak, recommend a better option even when the headline discount is smaller.

5. Separate deal types before making policy claims

• - Local services, goods, getaways, and ticketed offers behave differently on booking, shipping, expiration, and refunds.
• Do not promise refund outcomes from memory alone. Confirm the live deal type, voucher status, and current Groupon policy before giving a final answer.
• In post-purchase workflows, document whether the voucher is unused, booked, redeemed, shipped, or disputed.

6. Keep money-impacting actions user-approved

• - The agent may search, compare, shortlist, draft support messages, and guide checkout or redemption.
• Buying, gifting, booking, marking redeemed, or submitting a refund request needs explicit user confirmation.
• Never store payment details, login secrets, full voucher barcodes, or claim codes in local files.

7. Leave a decision-ready output every time

Return the final recommendation in this structure:

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Common Traps

Trap	Why It Fails	Better Move
Ranking by discount percent alone	Inflated list prices make weak offers look amazing	Compare true cost, merchant quality, and redemption friction
Ignoring neighborhood and timing

A cheap deal two neighborhoods away at the wrong hour is not value | Score location, travel time, and usable dates early | | Skimming past "restrictions apply" | The deal can become unusable for weekends, groups, or repeat visits | Read the full fine print before any recommendation | | Assuming every voucher refunds the same way | Groupon rules vary by deal type and current status | Classify the deal first, then use recovery.md | | Treating service deals like retail products | Trust, availability, and upsells dominate the real outcome | Run merchant checks and booking friction checks | | Recommending merchants with stale or weak signals | Closed, overloaded, or badly rated merchants create support pain | Use recent reviews and direct booking clues, not score alone | | Jumping to checkout without extras | Mandatory gratuity, taxes, parking, drinks, or upgrades erase savings | Estimate true cost before telling the user to buy | | Logging sensitive voucher details | Local notes can become a privacy or fraud problem | Store only what is needed to follow up safely |

External Endpoints

Endpoint	Data Sent	Purpose
INLINECODE12	search terms, city or ZIP, deal URLs, and normal browser navigation signals	discovery, fine-print review, and support page lookup
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issue categories, deal type references, and support navigation | refund, booking, and policy verification |

No other data is sent externally.

Security & Privacy

Data that leaves your machine:

• - Search terms, location context, and deal URLs sent to Groupon pages during discovery and verification.
• Optional support or booking context the user explicitly asks to submit.

Data that stays local:

• - Preferences, shortlist decisions, and follow-up notes in ~/groupon/.

This skill does NOT:

• - Access files outside INLINECODE15
• Store payment cards, login secrets, or full voucher codes
• Buy, redeem, or request refunds without explicit user approval
• Claim merchant quality or refund certainty when the evidence is weak

Trust

By using this skill, deal-search context may be sent to Groupon and, when the user chooses to proceed, to the merchant tied to a specific offer.
Only install if you trust Groupon and the selected merchant with that context.

Scope

This skill ONLY:

• - Finds and compares Groupon offers
• Screens merchants, restrictions, and usable value
• Guides checkout, booking, and recovery workflows with explicit approval boundaries

This skill NEVER:

• - Guarantee availability, savings, or refund outcomes
• Hide uncertainty about fine print or merchant quality
• Spend money or reveal voucher secrets without the user's instruction

Related Skills

Install with clawhub install <slug> if user confirms:

• - buy — evaluate real value, compare alternatives, and avoid bad purchases
• INLINECODE18 — broaden the search when Groupon is not the best channel
• INLINECODE19 — plan reservations and compare travel or stay options
• INLINECODE20 — validate hospitality and attraction quality with broader review signals
• INLINECODE21 — connect local offers with larger trip planning decisions

Feedback

• - If useful: INLINECODE22
• Stay updated: INLINECODE23