Kestrel — Government Appointment Booking

Part of the Circuit Forge LLC "AI for the tasks you hate most" suite.

Status: Backlog — not yet started. Peregrine must prove the model first.

What it does

Kestrel monitors appointment availability at government offices — DMV, passport agencies, Social Security offices, USCIS Application Support Centers, courts — and auto-books the moment a slot opens. Sends reminders with a checklist of required documents.

The kestrel hovers perfectly still in the air before diving with precision. That's the metaphor: watch and wait, then strike the instant an appointment opens.

Why it's hard

Government appointment systems are:

• Chronically overbooked (passport offices, USCIS biometrics)
• Updated sporadically — cancellations open and fill in minutes
• Scattered across different booking systems (Login.gov, agency-specific portals, state DMV sites)
• Unforgiving of missed appointments (back to the queue)

Core pipeline

Configure target agency + deadline urgency
→ Monitor booking portal (polling + change detection)
→ Alert when slot opens → Auto-book if within preferences
→ Send confirmation + document checklist reminder

Key differentiators vs. Peregrine

• Time-critical real-time monitoring vs. batch job discovery
• Booking automation: Playwright form-fill on detected availability
• Document checklist generator: per-appointment-type required docs
• Multi-office monitoring: find the closest available slot across locations

Product code (license key)

CFG-KSTR-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

Tech notes

• Shared circuitforge-core scaffold
• Appointment monitor: background daemon with configurable poll interval
• Portal adapters: Login.gov, USCIS, individual state DMV systems
• Playwright for form submission on slot detection
• Push notifications: ntfy.sh / Pushover / email alert on slot found