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This canvas is a comprehensive chore scheduling and assignment system tailored for a family with two households (Mom's House and Dad's House) and multiple kids including Elliet, Tate, and Nixon. It plans chores over a multi-month horizon (300 days starting July 2025) based on a custody schedule and Dad's work schedule. Key functionalities and flow: Setup and Constants: Defines the planning parameters including start date, length of planning, and chore categories (daily, weekly, monthly, rotating, individual, etc.). It also contains functions for chore assignment logic. Custody and Work Schedule Generation: Implements a repeating custody schedule pattern splitting days between Mom's and Dad's houses, along with Dad's work schedule (working/off days). Base Schedule DataFrame Creation: Combines dates, custody info, and Dad's work schedule into a DataFrame that forms the master schedule. Sparse Chore Scheduling: Assigns chores that occur less frequently (twice-weekly, weekly, monthly) to specific dates across the planning horizon, ensuring chores are spread out appropriately. Household Chore Assignment: Defines who is present and eligible for chores in each household on a given date, explicitly enforcing that Elliet is never assigned chores at Dad's House as a strict business rule. Chore Assignment Expansion: Expands the schedule into atomic chore assignments per person, per date. It applies the eligibility rules, chore frequencies, and rotating chore assignments. It also includes redundant filtering to prevent any chore assignments to Elliet at Dad's House. Summary and Aggregation: Aggregates chore assignments to summarize chores per person per day with readable chore summaries. iCalendar Export: Generates per-kid .ics calendar files with chores as all-day events, allowing easy import into calendar applications. Audit and Documentation: Contains explicit documentation blocks summarizing key business rules, especially the unconditional exclusion of Elliet from chores at Dad's House. Overall, this canvas automates complex family chore planning, correctly handling custody and presence, spreading chores over time thoughtfully, and producing outputs convenient for family members to follow via calendar apps. It ensures data integrity and business policy enforcement at multiple stages for robustness.