Meeting Prep Live

Meeting Prep (Live)

Walking into a meeting cold costs the first ten minutes. In Claude Cowork this skill assembles the brief from the user's real calendar and files — the event, who's in the room, what's attached, and where the last conversation left off — so they arrive with the context already in hand.

What This Skill Produces

• The meeting-brief artifact — objective, attendees with why-they-matter, the relevant context pulled from real docs/threads, open decisions, and a short list of questions to drive
• A pre-read pack — links to the actual Drive docs and the last thread, so nothing needs re-finding mid-meeting
• The one thing to decide — the single outcome that makes the meeting worth holding

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

• Which meeting — the next one, a named event, or a time ("my 2pm")
• The user's role in it — chairing, presenting, or attending — the brief's angle follows
• Depth — a 30-second glance or a full pre-read

Framework: What a Brief Must Answer

1. Why are we meeting — the objective in one line; if it can't be stated, the meeting is the problem.
2. Who's here and why — each attendee's stake and likely position.
3. Where we left off — the last decision/blocker from the real thread, not memory.
4. What must be decided — the outcome; everything else is discussion.
5. What the user should ask — 3–5 questions that move it forward.

Execution (Cowork)

1. Find the event — via the Google Calendar connector, resolve the meeting (next, named, or by time). Read title, description, attendees, and any attached links.
2. Gather context — open the attached Drive docs; via Gmail/Slack connectors, pull the most recent thread with those attendees on this topic. Read, don't guess.
3. Synthesise — fill the five questions above from what was actually found; mark anything you couldn't find as a gap rather than inventing it.
4. Emit the artifact — the one-page brief with live links to the sources.
5. Offer the next action — e.g. "draft an agenda from this?" — but don't take it unasked.

Guardrails: cite the real source for every claim; never fabricate an attendee position or a decision that isn't in the material; if a connector is unauthorised, produce the brief from what's available and name the gap.

Output Format

A Meeting Brief artifact:

[Meeting title] · [time] · [chair/present/attend]

Objective: one line · Decision needed: the one outcome

Attendees

Context (from the real thread & docs)

• key point — source: [doc/thread link]

Open threads / blockers

• …

Questions to ask

1. …

Pre-read

• [doc/thread links]

Quality Checks

• Every context point cites a real Calendar/Drive/Gmail/Slack source
• Attendee positions are drawn from material, not invented
• The single decision-needed is stated
• Gaps (couldn't find X) are named, not papered over
• Links resolve to the actual documents

Anti-Patterns

• Inventing attendee views to fill the table — mark unknowns.
• A brief with no decision — then question whether the meeting should happen.
• Summarising a doc you didn't open — read the real file or flag it missing.
• Auto-creating an agenda or sending anything without being asked.

Example Trigger Phrases

• "Prep me for my next meeting in Cowork."
• "Get me ready for the 2pm with the design team."
• "What do I need for the sync with Acme tomorrow?"
• "Pull the context for my 1:1 and give me questions to ask."