meetings-weekly
Synthesize an entire week of meetings and voice memos into a forward-looking brief — themes, decision arcs, stale commitments, and what deserves attention Monday.
How it works
This is a synthesis skill, not a command wrapper. It reads across all meetings, cross-references decisions and action items, and produces an intelligence brief.
Phase 1: Gather this week's recordings
minutes list --limit 50
Filter to recordings from the last 7 days by checking the date field in each result's frontmatter. Do NOT use minutes search with a date string as the query — that searches file content, not dates.
For each recording from the past 7 days, read the full file with Read to get content.
If zero recordings this week: Say: "No recordings found for the past 7 days. Nothing to synthesize." Offer: "Want me to look at the past 2 weeks instead?" Do NOT hallucinate a weekly summary.
If only 1-2 recordings: Still produce the brief — it's shorter but still valuable. Note: "Light week — only [N] recordings."
Phase 2: Theme extraction
Identify the 3-5 dominant themes across all meetings this week. A theme is a topic that appeared in 2+ meetings.
For each theme:
- Which meetings discussed it
- How the conversation evolved across meetings
- Whether a resolution was reached
Present as:
## This Week's Themes
### 1. Pricing (3 meetings)
- Mon: Case proposed $599 baseline
- Wed: Alex pushed back to annual billing
- Fri: Agreed on monthly billing experiment
- Status: RESOLVED (after 3 discussions)
### 2. Q2 Roadmap (2 meetings)
- Tue: Committed to April ship date
- Thu: Discussed pushing to May
- Status: CONFLICTING — not reconciled
Phase 3: Decision evolution arcs
For every decision made this week, search for prior decisions on the same topic in the last 30 days:
minutes search "<topic>" --since <30-days-ago> --limit 20
Classify each decision:
- STABLE — Decision held across 2+ mentions → "Locked in"
- VOLATILE — Changed 2+ times in 14 days → "Still in flux"
- CONFLICTING — Two active contradictory decisions → "Needs reconciliation"
- NEW — First time this topic was decided → "Fresh"
Present as a table:
## Decision Arcs
| Decision | Status | Arc | Last Meeting |
|----------|--------|-----|-------------|
| Pricing: monthly billing experiment | VOLATILE | $599→annual billing→monthly billing | Fri w/ Alex |
| Hire senior eng by Q2 | STABLE | Set Mar 10, held | Tue w/ Case |
| Q2 ship date | CONFLICTING | April vs May | Thu w/ team |
If there are CONFLICTING decisions, flag them prominently: "⚠️ You have conflicting decisions on Q2 ship date. Monday is a good time to reconcile."
Phase 4: Action item audit
Scan all meetings from the past 30 days for action items:
minutes actions
Or grep across meeting frontmatter for action_items with status: open.
Categorize:
- Completed this week — items that were marked done
- Still open, on track — items with future due dates
- Overdue — items with past due dates, still open
- Assigned to others — items others owe the user
Flag overdue items prominently: "⚠️ 3 action items are overdue. The oldest is from Mar 10 (pricing doc for Alex)."
Phase 5: Unresolved preps
Scan ~/.minutes/preps/ for prep files from this week that were never followed by a debrief:
ls ~/.minutes/preps/ 2>/dev/null
For each prep file from the last 7 days: check if a meeting with that person occurred after the prep date. If the user prepped but never debriefed:
"You prepped for a call with Alex on Tuesday but I don't see a debrief. Did the call happen?"
This catches meetings that happened but weren't recorded, or recordings that weren't processed.
Phase 6: Forward brief
Produce a "what deserves your attention Monday" section:
## Attention Monday
1. **Reconcile Q2 ship date** — April vs May is unresolved.
Last discussed Thu with the team.
2. **Send pricing doc to Alex** — Overdue since Friday.
She's expecting it. This is blocking.
3. **Follow up with Case on competitor grid** — He committed Mar 17.
No update yet. Worth a ping.
Prioritize by: CONFLICTING decisions > overdue action items > open commitments > unresolved preps.
Phase 7: Closing ritual
End with three beats:
Signal reflection — Reference a pattern or insight from the week. "Pricing dominated this week — 3 meetings, 3 changes, one resolution. That's behind you now."
Assignment — The single most important thing to do Monday. "First thing Monday: send the pricing doc to Alex. It's overdue and she's waiting."
Next skill nudge — "For your most important meeting Monday, run
meetings-prepto go in prepared."
Gotchas
- Zero recordings is not an error — Say "nothing this week" clearly. Don't hallucinate a summary. Offer to extend the range.
- Light weeks (1-2 recordings) are still worth summarizing — A single meeting can have important decisions. Don't dismiss it.
- Don't be a nag about overdue items — Surface them factually. "This is overdue since Friday" not "You really need to get on this."
- Decision evolution spans beyond this week — Search the last 30 days for related decisions, not just this week. A decision made today might conflict with one from 3 weeks ago.
- Preps without recordings might be intentional — Maybe the meeting was cancelled. Ask, don't assume.
- Voice memos count — Include
~/vault/meetings/memos/in the weekly scan. Ideas captured on the go are easy to forget. - End-of-week timing — The user might run this Thursday or Monday morning. "This week" should be the most recent 7 days, regardless of day-of-week.