{"workflow":{"id":"discovery-ba49c429857534d470ab13a7","title":"Find a lower-cost home charging window from your electricity tariff","consumerTitle":"Find a lower-cost home charging window from your electricity tariff","desc":"Ratebook documents an assistant querying a deterministic tariff engine for the cheapest contiguous charging block, using a supported electricity plan and a specified time horizon.","category":"Money & shopping","agent":"Claude Desktop","url":"https://github.com/cbetz/ratebook/blob/main/packages/ratebook-mcp/README.md","source":"GitHub project documentation","status":"Setup guide","checked":"2026-11-02","notes":"Covers the loaded US tariff corpus, not every utility or Canadian plan. Stale rates, unsupported charges and availability constraints can invalidate estimates. It proposes a window and does not control a charger or guarantee savings. Not independently tested. Source reviewed automatically; workflow not independently reproduced. Connection options require verification in your own agent.","prompt":"TASK: Find a lower-cost home charging window from your electricity tariff\n\nMY SETUP\n- Ratebook MCP and its tariff database configured\n- A supported US electricity tariff with current provenance\n- Charging duration, energy to add and an acceptable date horizon\n\nBEFORE STARTING\nConfirm which files, information and permissions you can actually access. Ask me for essential missing details. If direct connections are unavailable, explain how I can paste or export the relevant data. Do not claim an integration is connected without checking.\n\nWORKFLOW\n1. Look up my tariff and show its source, effective date and whether the engine can price it; ask me to confirm the plan.\n2. Use the charging-window tool with my date horizon, required hours and energy; reject windows outside my availability rather than pretending the tool accepts unsupported constraints.\n3. Report the proposed contiguous window and tariff assumptions, or explain a pricing refusal; leave charger changes for my approval.\n\nEXPECTED RESULT\nA proposed charging time grounded in supported tariff data, or an explicit refusal when pricing is unavailable.\n\nLIMITATIONS\nCovers the loaded US tariff corpus, not every utility or Canadian plan. Stale rates, unsupported charges and availability constraints can invalidate estimates. It proposes a window and does not control a charger or guarantee savings. Not independently tested.\n\nFIRST RUN\nUse a small read-only sample and show me the result. 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Stale rates, unsupported charges and availability constraints can invalidate estimates. It proposes a window and does not control a charger or guarantee savings. 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