Europe

Navigate Europe for travel, relocation, study, remote work, and cross-border life with bloc logic, country fit, rights, timing, and practical execution.

Security Scan

The skill's files, declared config path, and runtime instructions are coherent with its travel/relocation purpose and request only a local ~/europe/ memory area (created with user consent).

Purpose & Capability

The name/description (Europe travel, relocation, study, remote work) matches the declared artifacts and runtime instructions: guidance files, a memory template, and an optional local config path. There are no unrelated binaries, cloud credentials, or other services requested.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md and the included docs instruct the agent to operate statelessly by default and only create ~/europe/memory.md if the user explicitly consents; guidance is focused on asking for nationality, mode, target country, timelines, etc. The instructions do not request hidden system files, arbitrary env vars, or external endpoints beyond citing official EU sources for verification.

Install Mechanism

There is no install spec and no code files — the skill is instruction-only. Nothing is downloaded or written to disk by default; the only disk write permitted is the user-consented local memory file under ~/europe/, which is reasonable for a continuity feature.

Credentials

The skill requires no environment variables or credentials and only declares one config path (~/europe/) for optional local memory. That minimal request aligns with the stated goal of storing user-specific relocation context. The memory template cautions against storing passport numbers, tax IDs, bank credentials, or full addresses unless explicitly asked — a proportionate restriction.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and model invocation is not disabled (the platform default). The skill requests only optional, user-approved local persistence under its own path and does not modify other skills or system settings. No elevated privileges are requested.

Assessment

This skill appears to be what it says: a Europe travel/relocation advisor that can optionally store lightweight local notes in ~/europe/ after you confirm. Before enabling persistent memory, review setup.md and memory-template.md so you know exactly what will be stored (the template includes nationality and target-country context). Do not permit the skill to save passport numbers, bank details, tax IDs, or full street addresses unless you explicitly want that and understand the local-storage implications. If you use a shared or public machine, consider declining persistent memory or storing the folder in an encrypted location. Finally, the skill cites official EU sources for verification; if you need legally binding steps (tax, immigration), verify with the target country's official portal or a professional.

When to Use

User needs Europe-specific guidance that generic travel or relocation advice usually gets wrong: choosing the right country or city, understanding EU vs Schengen vs eurozone rules, planning multi-country trips, moving, studying, working remotely, handling healthcare, or operating across borders.

This skill should activate for seven modes: visiting Europe, choosing a base in Europe, moving to Europe, living in Europe, studying in Europe, working remotely across Europe, and operating a Europe-facing business or freelance setup.

Architecture

This skill works statelessly for one-off Europe questions. If the user wants continuity across sessions, memory lives in ~/europe/. If ~/europe/ 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.

~/europe/
└── memory.md     # Nationality, mobility rights, target countries, timelines, constraints, and open loops

Quick Reference

Topic	File
Setup guide	setup.md
Memory template	memory-template.md
Europe blocs, rights layers, and country-group logic	europe-basics-and-blocs.md
Macroregions, corridors, and cluster tradeoffs	regional-corridors-and-country-clusters.md
Choosing countries, cities, and base strategy	choosing-countries-and-cities.md
Entry, visas, residence pathways, and right-to-stay logic	entry-visas-and-right-to-stay.md
Schengen math, borders, and 90/180 traps	schengen-border-and-90-180.md
Move-in sequence and settling checklist	moving-and-settling.md
Housing, banking, SIMs, utilities, and local admin	housing-banking-phone-and-admin.md
Jobs, universities, qualifications, and business setup	work-study-and-qualifications.md
Tax residence, social security, and cross-border paperwork	taxes-social-security-and-residency.md
Public healthcare, EHIC/GHIC logic, and private cover	healthcare-and-insurance.md
Rail, flights, ferries, buses, and passenger rights	transport-and-passenger-rights.md
Multi-country routing, road trips, and Europe pace design	rail-flights-and-road-trips.md
Eurozone reality, cards, cash, and everyday payments	money-payments-and-eurozone.md
Remote work, digital nomads, and split-country life	remote-work-and-digital-nomads.md
Seasonal stays, second homes, and part-year Europe life	seasonal-living-and-second-homes.md
Families, children, schools, and student tradeoffs	family-students-and-children.md
Scams, emergencies, 112, and consumer protection	safety-scams-and-consumer-rights.md
Climate, shoulder seasons, and event timing	weather-seasons-and-trip-timing.md
Weekend trips, interrail-style loops, and short-break logic	weekend-trips-and-multicountry-routes.md
Official sources map	sources.md

Core Rules

1. Europe Is Not One Operating System

• Separate Europe the continent from the EU, Schengen Area, eurozone, EEA, UK, Switzerland, Balkans, and microstates.
• Never answer a Europe question as if all countries share the same visa, tax, bank, health, or border rules.
• Start by identifying which legal bloc and which country or corridor actually controls the answer.

2. Classify the User Before Giving Advice

• Decide which Europe mode applies first: visitor, future resident, current resident, student, worker, remote worker, family household, or operator.
• Then anchor the answer to nationality, passport, visa status, target country, intended length of stay, and whether the user is moving between countries or just visiting.
• If that context is missing, ask before pretending Europe is interchangeable.

3. Separate Stable Framework from Volatile Execution

• Bloc definitions, 90/180 math, passenger-right concepts, and broad routing logic are stable enough to explain.
• Visa thresholds, local registration steps, fees, opening-hour quirks, health enrollment steps, and tax details can change.
• For volatile topics, explain the framework first and then verify with official current sources before giving precise compliance steps.

4. Country Fit Beats Bucket Lists

• Europe planning fails when users pick countries from aesthetics alone.
• Compare countries and cities using legal access, language load, weather, housing stress, healthcare depth, transport quality, salary reality, and social fit together.
• Use choosing-countries-and-cities.md before endorsing a base.

5. Cross-Border Friction Is the Real Difficulty

• Border rights, tax residence, social security, roaming, banking, school systems, driving rules, and healthcare access can all change when the user crosses countries.
• Treat Europe as a network of connected but non-identical systems.
• When the user is splitting time across countries, lead with what breaks at the boundary.

6. Deliver Sequences, Not Vibes

• Europe users often need a path like "choose country -> confirm right to stay -> secure housing -> register locally -> fix bank/SIM/health -> then optimize lifestyle."
• For trips, answer with transfer logic, reservation deadlines, and fallback routes.
• For moves, answer in the form "do this before arrival / in week one / in month one / after stabilizing."

7. Respect the Difference Between Tourist and Resident Advice

• A city that is great for a 4-day trip can be bad for long-term housing, bureaucracy, or income fit.
• Do not use tourist-season impressions to answer residency, schooling, or work questions.
• Do not use residency-oriented cost assumptions to answer short-break or interrail questions.

8. Use Official Europe-Level Sources Before Blogs

• Prefer Your Europe, the EU Immigration Portal, EURES, Europass, national government portals, Eurostat, and passenger-rights pages.
• Use private guides only as secondary context, never as the final authority for legal or rights-sensitive topics.
• If a country-specific official page is required, say so clearly instead of improvising.

9. Before Writing Local Memory, Ask

• If continuity would help, explain exactly what would be stored in ~/europe/.
• Ask for confirmation before creating or changing local files.
• Do not save passport numbers, tax IDs, banking credentials, or full street addresses unless the user explicitly asks for that behavior.

Common Traps

• Treating Europe as if EU membership, Schengen membership, and euro use are the same thing.
• Recommending a move path without checking the user's nationality and right to stay.
• Suggesting multi-country trips that look short on a map but waste time in transfers.
• Mixing tourist affordability with long-term housing and tax reality.
• Assuming roaming, healthcare, or consumer rights apply equally in every European country.
• Giving digital-nomad or residency advice without asking whether the user wants legal residence, tax residence, or just a long visit.
• Ignoring language load, local admin friction, and housing inventory until too late.

External Endpoints

Endpoint	Data Sent	Purpose
https://europa.eu/youreurope/	Page requests only unless user explicitly wants country-specific rights guidance	EU citizen rights, travel, residence, work, health, consumer protection
https://immigration-portal.ec.europa.eu/	Nationality and target-country context only if user asks for non-EU residence or work guidance	Non-EU migration pathways by country
https://eures.europa.eu/	Country, language, and profession context only if user asks for job-market guidance	Jobs, living and working conditions
https://europass.europa.eu/	Qualification or CV context only if user asks for recognition or study/work prep	Skills, qualifications, and CV framework
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/	Page requests only	EU law and regulation reference
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat	Page requests only unless user asks for comparative data pulls	Europe-wide comparative statistics
https://europa.eu/112	Country or location only if user asks for emergency readiness	Europe emergency-number framework
https://www.eccnet.eu/	Country and consumer-case context only if user asks for purchase or travel-rights help	Consumer protection and dispute support
https://europa.eu/solvit/	Country and rights-problem context only if user asks for EU-rights problem solving	Cross-border rights assistance

No other data is sent externally.

Security & Privacy

Data that may leave your machine:

• Public page requests to official EU and national portals
• Country, nationality, residency, profession, or route context only when the user asks for location-specific guidance

Data that stays local:

• Mobility goals, target countries, trip or move timelines, family constraints, and open tasks in ~/europe/

This skill does NOT:

• Submit visa, tax, residency, or university forms on the user's behalf without explicit instruction
• Store passport numbers, tax IDs, bank credentials, or payment information in local memory by default
• Assume country-specific rules when the answer depends on nationality, right-to-stay, or local registration

Trust

By using this skill, details such as nationality, target country, and cross-border route context may be checked against official European or national-government websites when the user asks for precise guidance.

Only install if you trust those public services with that lookup context.

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• travel — General trip planning and itinerary structure
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• car-rental — Better cross-border rental and handoff planning
• health-insurance — Deeper insurance-plan comparison support
• english — Language support for bookings, admin, and fallback communication

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