Meeting Notes to Actions

This is the action-extraction specialist — narrower than the broader meeting-debrief skill, deliberately. Where a debrief gives you the full picture (decisions, discussion, next steps, open questions, all sections), this one optimises for the bit that actually drives accountability: the action table. Everything else — decisions, open questions, parking lot, context — is supporting material around it. The action table is what gets posted in the channel within the hour. The full summary goes out same-day to attendees and absentees.

Extraction follows hard rules. Every action item starts with a verb. Every action has a single owner — not "the team", not "Sarah and Mike" — one name accountable, with the right to delegate. Every action has a deadline; if none was stated, it gets flagged "TBD — needs date" rather than quietly omitted. Vague timing gets translated ("soon" → flagged, "next week" → specific date, "after launch" → date with assumption). Passive commitments ("that needs to get done") get marked UNASSIGNED prominently rather than disappearing into the prose. The bias is toward over-extraction — better to flag something that gets dismissed than miss a commitment that falls through.

The skill catches the things that summarisers fudge. Implied decisions — the group debated A and B, then started planning A, that's a decision for A even though nobody said the word "decided". Unresolved disagreements — two people disagreed and the conversation moved on, that's an OPEN QUESTION not a decision, flagged with both positions. Contradictions — someone says "we're cutting feature X" and later someone references "when we build X", flagged explicitly. "We should" aspirations with no owner or timeline — Parking Lot, not Actions.

Thin meetings get diplomatic honesty. If the notes contain only chitchat and async-able status sharing with no decisions and no actions, the output says so plainly — "this meeting produced 0 decisions and 0 actions, the content could have been [specific async format]". That line is uncomfortable. It's also the only way the same meeting stops repeating.