Extract Commitments

Extract commitments

A founder's reputation is built on what they said they'd do. This skill extracts commitments from meeting notes and gives them a structured home with deadlines, parties, and tracking.

When this skill fires

• After any wiki/research/?kind=customer-call is filed
• After any wiki/research/?kind=investor-call is filed
• When the user asks "@customer-success what did I promise?" or similar
• Retroactively when boss notices a meeting note that wasn't scanned

The shape

1. Read the source entry completely (don't skim)
2. Identify commitment phrases:
   • "I'll ship X by Y"
   • "I'll send Z by Friday"
   • "I'll follow up next week"
   • "by EOQ", "by Friday", "next Tuesday", "in 2 weeks", "before our next call"
   • "we'll deliver X" / "we'll get back to you"
   • implicit: "yes, I can do that" in response to a specific ask
3. Parse the deadline to a concrete date
4. Identify the responsible party (Sarah / Tom / Priya / etc.) — default to the principal user
5. Identify the recipient (which contact / org / project this commits us to)
6. Write a commitment entry to wiki/commitments/<slug>.md:

---
slug: <year>-<month>-<topic>
kind: commitment
title: <human-readable commitment>
made_in: <source entry id>
responsible: <person slug>
made_to: <contact slug or org slug>
due_date: <YYYY-MM-DD>
status: open                   # open | in_progress | done | missed | renegotiated
priority: p1                   # p1 | p2 | p3
source_quote: "<verbatim from the meeting>"
created: <today>
last_updated: <today>
last_edited_by: customer-success
last_change_summary: extracted from <source>
---

# <Title>

## Commitment

<plain-language description>

## Context

From <source meeting>; <one-line context>

## Tracking

- 2026-XX-XX: extracted
- ...

7. Cross-link the original meeting note's frontmatter with commitments: [<slug>, ...]
8. Notify boss if a commitment is high-stakes (P1, investor-facing, or short deadline <7 days)

Reasoning rules

• Implicit commitments count. "Sure, I can do that" + a specific ask = commitment.
• Quotes are gold — capture the exact phrase the founder used so future you can verify what was actually said.
• Conservative on parsing dates — "next Friday" said on Monday means this Friday; double-check; default to the nearest forward date.
• If multiple commitments in one meeting: one commitment entry per concrete promise.

What this enables

• Dashboard "commitments due this week" lane
• Morning standup: "Sarah, you said you'd send the annual contract to Redgum by Friday — want me to draft it now?"
• Pre-meeting prep: "Before the James Wilson call: you committed to a monthly update; April's was sent on time; May is due 2026-06-04"
• End-of-month retro: "8/10 commitments hit this month; 2 missed both with Redgum — worth checking in with Anna"

Anti-patterns

• Extracting "I should think about that" as a commitment (it's not)
• Inventing a deadline the source doesn't state
• Filing commitments without source quote — un-auditable
• Filing the same commitment twice if a meeting is re-summarised