Meeting Recap

Meeting Recap

A meeting recap is a post-meeting topic-segmented summary produced for attendees and light distribution. It organizes content by topic rather than chronology, highlights decisions visually, and captures actions inline (with owner, due date, dependencies) per topic segment, plus a consolidated actions view at the end for scannability.

This skill absorbs what would otherwise be a separate "meeting-actions" skill. Actions in this family live alongside the context that makes them meaningful, not in a sibling artifact.

This skill belongs to the Meeting Skills Family. It conforms to the Meeting Skills Family Contract.

When to Use

• After any internal meeting that produces decisions or actions affecting attendees
• When a sibling foundation-meeting-agenda exists and needs reconciliation (planned vs. actual topics)
• When the team needs a topic-organized reference rather than a chronological transcript dump
• When inputs include a transcript (Zoom, Meet, Otter, Fireflies, Krisp MCP) or mixed notes and transcript

When NOT to Use

• Setting the pre-meeting structure attendees will see (topics, owners, time boxes) before the meeting happens. Use foundation-meeting-agenda. recap summarizes what happened after a meeting; agenda sets expectations before it.
• Preparing the user's private strategic positioning before a meeting that matters. Use foundation-meeting-brief. recap is a shared post-meeting record; brief is pre-meeting tactical prep never shown to attendees.
• Communicating outcomes to non-attendees. Use foundation-stakeholder-update. recap assumes reader context; stakeholder-update translates to readers without it.
• Cross-meeting synthesis (patterns across multiple meetings). Use foundation-meeting-synthesize.
• Synthesizing user research interviews across participants, not one meeting's attendees. Use discover-interview-synthesis. recap organizes a single meeting by topic; interview-synthesis finds patterns across many research conversations.
• Live meeting note-taking. This skill consumes finished inputs; it does not transcribe live.

Zero-friction execution

Per the family contract, this skill never blocks on interrogation. Default flow:

1. Read all provided inputs (transcript, notes, or hybrid) and note input quality upfront
2. Auto-discover related agenda via filename-prefix match on same-directory *_{title}_agenda.md
3. Run inference: meeting metadata from content, decisions from language markers, actions from imperative-future patterns, owners from attendee context
4. Present a brief inference summary and accept one-word go or corrections
5. Produce the recap

If invoked with --go, skip the inference summary. If the user provides all metadata upfront, no checkpoint appears.

Fabrication prohibition

This skill never fabricates owners, decisions, or actions. When an action lacks an explicit owner, it is captured as [owner: unassigned, needs confirmation] not invented. When a decision is implicit ("it sounded like we decided X"), it is flagged with a confidence marker rather than stated as fact. Trust decay from fabrication is worse than the mild friction of flagging.