# Meeting To Actions

> Use when turning a meeting transcript or messy notes into an outcome. Extracts decisions, owned action items, and open questions, and throws away the noise nobody needs to reread.

- Skill: `dkenge123-oss/meeting-to-actions` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add dkenge123-oss/meeting-to-actions`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/dkenge123-oss/meeting-to-actions/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Productivity
- Author: dkenge123-oss (https://skillmd.com/u/dkenge123-oss)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/dkenge123-oss/meeting-to-actions

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# Meeting to Actions

Nobody rereads a transcript. What survives a meeting is the decisions made and the things people committed to do. Capture those; discard the rest.

## Protocol

1. **Extract three things, nothing else:** decisions made, action items (with an owner and a due date), and open questions that block progress. Everything else in the conversation is context that served its purpose in the room.
2. **Give every action item an owner and a date.** An action item without a name is a wish; without a date it is a someday. If the transcript did not assign one, flag it as unassigned rather than inventing an owner — the gap is itself a finding to resolve.
3. **Record decisions with just enough why.** "Decided to ship the v1 without SSO" plus one clause of reasoning. The reasoning prevents the decision from being relitigated next week by someone who missed the meeting.
4. **Separate what was decided from what was merely discussed.** A lot of talk is exploration that led nowhere. Do not promote a tangent into a commitment. If it was not actually decided, it is an open question, not a decision.
5. **Lead with the actions.** The reader's first question is "what do I have to do?" Answer it at the top. Decisions and open questions follow.
6. **Keep it to a screen.** If the summary is longer than a screen, you are transcribing, not summarizing.

## Output shape

```markdown
## Decisions
- <decision> — <one clause of why>

## Action items
- [ ] <action> — @owner, by <date>
- [ ] <action> — UNASSIGNED (needs an owner)

## Open questions
- <question blocking progress, and who can answer it>
```

## Never

- Never invent an owner or a date the meeting did not produce; surface the gap instead.
- Never preserve discussion that led to no decision and no action.
- Never bury an action item inside a paragraph where its owner will miss it.

## Done means

Every attendee can read the summary in under a minute and know exactly what they own, what was decided, and what still needs an answer.