Meeting Transcript Synthesizer

Meetings generate value that evaporates the moment they end, because the record is a wall of raw transcript no one rereads. This skill compresses a transcript into a digest a reader absorbs in under a minute, while preserving the detail someone would need to act, so decisions and context survive the meeting.

1. The transcript or raw notes.
2. The meeting purpose and, if not obvious, the participants.

1. Read fully before writing

Understand the whole conversation and its purpose before summarizing, so the summary reflects the meeting, not just the loudest part.

2. Write a summary that stands alone

Three to five sentences a person who missed the meeting could rely on. This is the most-used output, so make it genuinely sufficient.

3. Extract decisions as decisions

Separate what was decided from what was merely discussed. A decision buried in discussion gets lost and re-litigated.

4. Capture open questions

The unresolved points, so they are not forgotten between meetings.

5. Summarize the themes

The topics covered, each with one line of substance, so the digest is navigable.

6. Note commitments

Who said they would do what, where named. For a full accountable task list with owners and dates, hand off to the transcript-to-action-items skill.

ALWAYS use:

# [Meeting Name] | [Date if known]
## Summary
## Decisions
## Open questions
## Key topics
## Notable quotes (optional, only if a verbatim line carries weight)

• Inventing attendees, dates, or decisions the transcript does not support.
• Guessing who said what when the transcript is ambiguous (attribute to "a participant").
• A summary too vague to be useful to someone who missed the meeting.
• Long verbatim quotes instead of synthesis.

A messy 40-minute product call becomes a five-line summary, three clearly stated decisions, two open questions, and four topic lines, with one notable quote from the client preserved.