Categories

Categories

Categories drive color-coding on the Planner and grouping in hour totals. skulid ships with eight built-in categories matching Reclaim's default set; you can rename them and pick new colors, but slugs are fixed (the engines reference them by slug).

Built-in set

Slug	Default name	Default color
focus	Focus	indigo
one_on_one	1:1 meetings	green
team	Team meetings	green
external	External meetings	red
personal	Personal	orange
travel	Travel & breaks	amber
other	Other work	gray
free	Free	lime

Edit at Settings → Categories. Only the display name and color are editable; the slug never changes.

How an event gets a category

The categorizer (internal/category/) is pure heuristic logic. It takes an event plus a small context (your owner email domains, the calendar's optional default) and returns a slug:

1. Cancelled → other.
2. Transparent (free) → free, or the calendar default.
3. Title keyword — "lunch"/"break"/"travel"/"commute"/etc. → travel. "focus"/"deep work"/"heads down" → focus.
4. All-day (no DateTime) → personal, or the calendar default.
5. Solo / 1 attendee → focus, or the calendar default.
6. 2 attendees → one_on_one.
7. 3+ attendees, all internal → team.
8. 3+ attendees, any external → external.

Resource attendees (rooms, equipment) are ignored when counting.

Pinning

Three places can pin a category and bypass the heuristic:

• Per calendar: a "Family" calendar can default everything on it to personal (calendar.default_category_id).
• Per sync rule: the mirror events get the chosen category (sync_rule.category_id).
• Per smart block / task / habit: the written event gets the chosen category.

Internal vs external

The "team vs external" boundary is based on email-domain comparison to your owner domains — derived from your connected accounts' emails. With no accounts connected, every multi-attendee meeting collapses to team (conservative — we don't know which is internal, so we don't escalate to external).