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/cs-meeting-actions

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Command: /cs:meeting-actions [notes file or pasted notes]

A meeting that ends without owned, dated actions was theater. This command runs immediately after the meeting — while attendees still remember what they agreed to — and turns the messy notes into a checklist where every item has a name and a date, or is loudly flagged until it does.

When to Run

  • The meeting just ended and the notes are a wall of prose
  • "Pull the action items out of these notes"
  • "Who owes what from Thursday's meeting?"
  • Before posting a meeting summary — so the summary leads with the actions

When NOT to Run

  • Before the meeting → use /cs:meeting-prep (cost gate + agenda)
  • Triaging your own private brain-dump → productivity/capture owns that
  • Turning actions into Jira issues and sprint work → project-management/ owns delivery flow

What You Get

  1. A markdown checklist grouped by owner — each item with its due date where one was captured.
  2. ORPHAN flags — every action with no owner, grouped under "(unassigned)" so they get claimed before the thread goes cold.
  3. NO-DUE flags — owned actions with no date, listed so a date gets attached now, not "later".
  4. Summary counts — total actions · owned · orphaned · missing dates, in one line.

Trigger Phrases (auto-invoke without /cs:)

  • "extract the action items" / "pull out the actions"
  • "who owes what" / "turn these notes into a checklist"
  • "action items from this meeting"

Discipline

  • Every action item has an owner and a date — or it is not an action item. Flags are the output, not noise; never silently drop or auto-assign an orphan.
  • Extraction is deterministic — the script's patterns decide what counts; don't invent actions the notes don't contain.
  • Orphans get resolved by a human — present them for assignment; never guess an owner.
  • Never auto-send — the checklist is text the user posts. No emails, no messages, no issues filed.

Workflow

# From a notes file
python ../skills/meetings/scripts/action_item_extractor.py --input notes.md

# From pasted notes on stdin
cat notes.md | python ../skills/meetings/scripts/action_item_extractor.py

# Machine-readable, for piping into other checklists
python ../skills/meetings/scripts/action_item_extractor.py --input notes.md --json

Then walk the flags: assign every ORPHAN, date every NO-DUE, and post the checklist.

Stop Conditions

  • Checklist delivered, every ORPHAN either assigned by the user or explicitly left flagged → done.
  • Zero actions extracted → say so plainly and ask whether the meeting actually decided anything (that's a /cs:meeting-prep conversation for next time). Don't fabricate items.
  • User says "just give me the list" → checklist + summary counts, no assignment walkthrough.

Version: 1.0.0