How to use the Summarize Meeting Notes agent skill

What the summarize-meeting skill makes the agent do

An agent skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that tells an AI agent how to handle a particular kind of task. This skill covers meeting recaps. When you give the agent a meeting transcript or notes, it is instructed to read them, work out who attended and what the main topic was, then pull out the key discussion points, decisions, and action items with owners and due dates.

The skill's template produces a summary with these parts: date and time, participants, topic, summary points, action items in a table (due date, owner, action), decisions made, and open questions. The instructions ask for plain language written for a reader with little background, and for the result to be saved as a markdown file named Meeting-Summary-[date]-[topic].md.

• Date and start/end time
• Participants with roles, where available
• Topic in a short title
• Summary points, grouped by topic for large meetings
• Action items with owner and due date
• Decisions made and open questions

Install the summarize-meeting skill

Download the ZIP for this skill from this page. Then choose one of the two install routes below.

For a personal install that works in any project, unzip the download into ~/.claude/skills/. For a single project, unzip it into that project's .claude/skills/ folder. The skill folder should contain SKILL.md.

You can also upload the skill in the Claude apps. Open Settings, go to Capabilities, then Skills, and upload the ZIP there.

• Personal install: unzip into ~/.claude/skills/
• Project install: unzip into the project's .claude/skills/
• Claude apps: Settings → Capabilities → Skills, then upload the ZIP

Trigger the skill with natural requests

You do not need a special command. The skill's description says it is for processing meeting recordings, creating meeting notes, writing meeting minutes, or recapping discussions, so ask for one of those things in ordinary words and paste or attach the transcript.

The skill also expects the material to be supplied as its input, so include the transcript or notes in the same message or attach the file.

• Summarize this meeting transcript and list the action items with owners.
• Write meeting minutes from these notes. Include the decisions we made.
• Recap this call for someone who missed it. What did we decide?
• Turn this recording transcript into notes and save them as a markdown file.

What to give the agent and what it needs

The source lists no required tools or packages for this skill. What you need is the meeting content itself, either pasted as text or as a file the agent can read. The better the transcript, the better the summary. If a meeting refers to background material, the skill can use web search to look for related documents, so the agent will need network access for that step.

If a name, date or owner is missing from the transcript, the skill asks the agent to leave it out or flag it rather than guess. Check these fields before you share the notes.

• A meeting transcript, recording text, or notes
• Network access if you want the agent to look up background material
• No scripts are run by this skill

Safety notes: scripts, network and confidential content

This skill does not run scripts. It does use the network: the instructions allow the agent to search online for background material when a meeting references something it needs context on. Your transcript is sent to whichever AI service runs the agent, so do not use the skill with content you are not allowed to share with that service.

Because the agent may misread a transcript or add details that were never said, review every summary against the original before acting on it, especially decisions, owners and dates.

• Do not paste sensitive or confidential meeting content you do not want processed by an AI service
• Do not rely on the output without a check where accuracy is legally or financially critical
• Verify owners and due dates before sending the action list

Tips for better meeting summaries

Give the full transcript rather than a partial excerpt, and say who attended if the transcript does not name them. For long meetings, ask the agent to group points by topic, which the skill's notes already allow. Ask it to mark disagreements and open questions so they are not lost.

• Include attendee names and roles in your request if the transcript lacks them
• Ask for sections by topic for long or complex meetings
• Ask for a markdown file so the output keeps the Meeting-Summary-[date]-[topic].md naming