Choose dinner from ingredients and cooking history

Why use this

1. A household deciding dinner may have an ingredient list that is incomplete or stale and meal history that makes some options repetitive. Treating every recorded ingredient as available can produce a suggestion that cannot actually be cooked.

2. A reviewable meal shortlist could separate clearly supported options from those needing an ingredient check. Logging the confirmed choice separately would avoid consuming pantry quantities merely because a recipe was suggested.

Why an agent / simpler alternative

Useful judgment

Compare recipe needs, available quantities and recent meals while exposing uncertain substitutions.

Simpler alternative

Choose from a fixed meal rotation when ingredients are reliably stocked.

Unsuitable when

Allergy, dietary or food-safety requirements are missing or require medical guidance.

Proposed inputs

1. Name

   Ingredient and meal-history snapshot

   Owner

   Cook

   Minimum scope

   Relevant quantities, units and recent meals

   Quality check

   Mark estimated stock and unknown freshness.

2. Name

   Recipe and dietary constraints

   Owner

   Cook

   Minimum scope

   Approved recipes and explicitly stated exclusions

   Quality check

   Do not infer allergens, safe substitutions or clinical dietary targets.

Access and setup — proposed or unknown

Proposed minimum

1. Read-only recipe, pantry and history extracts; private candidate list.

Compatibility unknowns

1. Unknown: exact runtime, meal-planning plugin and quantity-update behavior.

External actions requiring approval

1. Saving inferred ingredients, recording meals or changing inventory without confirmed intent.

Expected deliverable and review checks

Proposed artifact

Ranked recipe candidates with missing ingredients and proposed post-confirmation quantity changes.

Critical checks

1. Recipe quantities use comparable units.

2. Suggestions do not automatically create a cooked-meal record or imply ingredient safety.

Missing output evidence

No recipe preparation, plugin call or pantry update occurs in this overlay.

Failure signals and proposed responses

1. Signal

   The pantry quantity is an old estimate.

   Why it matters

   A supposedly cookable meal may lack an essential ingredient.

   Proposed response

   Mark availability uncertain and request a pantry check.

2. Signal

   Considering a recipe deducts ingredients immediately.

   Why it matters

   The pantry record could drift before anything is cooked.

   Proposed response

   Keep deductions proposed until the owner confirms the relevant action.

Effort and cost — unknown

Setup work

1. Normalize pantry units and identify explicit food constraints.

Ongoing review

1. Confirm chosen meals and reconcile actual ingredient use.

Unknowns

1. Unknown: plugin costs, pantry accuracy and recipe coverage.

First check — proposed, unexecuted

Status

proposed_unexecuted

Synthetic fixture

Fictional recipes share an ingredient with uncertain stock; one repeats yesterday’s meal and neither has been selected.

Acceptance checks

1. Uncertain availability is visible.

2. No inventory or history change is marked complete.

Stop conditions

1. A dietary assumption or unconfirmed ingredient inference is required.

Limits

1. Editorial meal-planning aid; no health, freshness or recipe-success assurance is established.