minutes-weekly

/minutes 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 4b: Relationship intelligence (from conversation graph)

If the minutes CLI is available, pull relationship data:

minutes people --json --limit 20
minutes commitments --json

From the people data, produce:

Relationship changes this week:

• Who you met with most this week (compare to their usual frequency)
• Anyone new you met for the first time
• Anyone on your "losing touch" list

Stale commitments by person:

• Group overdue/stale commitments by person name
• Include the meeting they came from and the original due date
• Prioritize by age (oldest first)

Present as:

## Relationship Pulse

**Most active:** Sarah Chen (3 meetings this week, usually 1/week)
**New contact:** Jordan Mills (first meeting Thursday)
**Losing touch:** Alex Kumar (5 meetings total, last seen 3 weeks ago)

### Stale Commitments
- **Alex Kumar:** Send tech spec (due Mar 20, from Q2 Planning)
- **mat:** Pull March revenue numbers (due Mar 22, from Investor Update Prep)

If no graph data is available (minutes people returns empty), skip this phase silently. It's additive, not required.

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:

1. 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."

2. 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."

3. Next skill nudge — "For your most important meeting Monday, run /minutes prep to 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 ~/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.