Meeting Recording To Brief

The free Meeting Debrief skill takes pre-condensed notes — bullet fragments someone already distilled. This one starts from raw transcript: thousands of words of overlapping speech, filler, tech troubleshooting, side jokes, cross-talk, and the same point made four times by three people. The challenge is fundamentally different. Organising someone else's distillation is editing. Doing the distillation yourself, from scratch, in one pass, is the harder problem.

Every segment of the transcript gets tagged: DECISION (a conclusion was reached, agreement language from multiple speakers, or a proposal followed by silence), ACTION (someone committed to doing something — who, what, by when, all three fields), DISCUSSION (the reasoning behind decisions, the trade-offs being weighed, the positions taken), PARKING LOT (explicitly deferred — "let's take that offline"), or NOISE (filler, greetings, tech issues — discarded entirely). The skill distinguishes DECIDED ("let's go with Option A") from LEANING ("I think Option A is probably better") — most tools fudge this and the team ends up acting on things that weren't agreed.

Action items include a source quote for every item, so anyone reviewing the brief can verify against the transcript without re-listening. Confidence tags (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW) sit next to every extraction — explicitly stated decisions get HIGH, no-objection proposals get MEDIUM, garbled or implicit items get LOW and flagged for verification. The skill never fills gaps with assumptions; unintelligible sections get labelled [TRANSCRIPT UNCLEAR] rather than guessed.

Client-facing calls get handled differently — action items split into "Our team" and "Client/Partner" columns, client requests flagged separately from internal decisions, commitments made to external parties marked because they affect trust if missed. The brief scales to the meeting: a five-minute standup gets a compressed format (actions + blockers + one-line summary); a sixty-minute strategy meeting gets the full structure. The brief should replace the recording — if anyone needs to re-listen to know what happened, the brief failed.