/meeting-notes — Capture Meeting Transcript to Intake
Save a meeting transcript or notes to intake/meetings/{YYYY-MM-DD}-{slug}.md with structured participants / topics / action items / decisions sections. Source can be a ~~docs MCP (Notion meeting page, Confluence meeting doc) OR pasted transcript text (Granola export, raw transcript, hand-written notes).
Runtime Gate (per ADR-094)
Canonical resolution: This is the Claude Code variant. When both plugin-claude-code and plugin-claude-cowork are loaded in the same session (most common in Claude Desktop), bare /meeting-notes resolves to this skill — aria-knowledge (Code) is the canonical owner of all 24 dual-port skills per ADR-094 §Part 1. The Cowork variant is namespaced-only: /aria-cowork:meeting-notes.
Before Step 0: Check that the Bash tool is available in this session. If Bash is NOT available (you are running in Claude Cowork or another non-Code runtime), surface the following notification and wait for explicit user confirmation:
⚠️ Runtime mismatch — you invoked aria-knowledge's /meeting-notes from a non-Code runtime.
This skill works in either runtime via paste-text fallback, but MCP-sourced meetings (Notion, Confluence, Granola) require ~~docs MCPs typically only present in Cowork. For the Cowork-native variant with better MCP fidelity, use /aria-cowork:meeting-notes.
Use/aria-cowork:meeting-notesinstead? (y/n)
Wait for an explicit reply:
y/yes— Use theSkilltool to invokearia-cowork:meeting-noteswith the same arguments the user provided to this invocation. Do not proceed with this skill's steps; the cowork variant takes over and runs to completion. This is the default-yes path — auto-redirect is the helpful action.n/no— Proceed with this (aria-knowledge) variant anyway despite the runtime mismatch. The user has explicitly opted in.- No response / any other reply — Treat as "do not proceed" and exit cleanly without running either variant.
This gate applies even when mode = auto per ADR-094 §Part 3. Auto mode's "implicit-yes on all gates" rule is suspended for the runtime-mismatch check — auto trusts that the user invoked the correct variant, and this gate enforces that precondition. All other auto-mode gates remain bypassed. The friction cost is now low: on y, the auto-redirect runs the correct variant with the original args.
If Bash is available, proceed to Step 0.
Step 0: Resolve Config
Read ~/.claude/aria-knowledge.local.md and extract knowledge_folder. If the file doesn't exist, stop: "aria-knowledge is not configured. Run /setup to get started."
Verify {knowledge_folder}/intake/meetings/ exists. If not, create it (lazy creation for first-time use of this skill).
Step 1: Probe Connected MCPs (with paste fallback)
Check Claude's available tool list for ~~docs MCPs:
~~docs(notion, atlassian, box, egnyte, google docs): if connected, available for MCP-sourced meeting docs.
Branching logic (this skill diverges from other MCP-consuming skills here — see ADR-015 §"Application across the 5 MCP-consuming skills"):
- If
~~docsIS connected AND input looks like a URL/ID: route through MCP fetch (Step 2 MCP branch). - If
~~docsIS NOT connected OR input ispaste(or empty): offer paste fallback (Step 2 paste branch). - If input is
pasteeven with~~docsconnected: respect the explicit paste choice; skip MCP fetch.
Unlike /intake extract, /intake thread, /digest, and /sync-decisions, this skill does NOT hard-stop when no ~~docs MCP is present. Meeting transcripts often arrive via paste (from Granola, from a meeting tool's export button, from hand-typed notes) — closing that path would defeat the skill's primary use case.
Step 2 (MCP branch): Parse + Fetch from ~~docs
Same as /intake extract (MCP-doc path) Step 2-3. Routing table:
| Input shape | Routes to | |---|---| | Contains notion.so | notion (~~docs) | | Contains atlassian.net/wiki | atlassian (~~docs) | | Contains docs.google.com/document | google docs (~~docs) | | Bare ID + known MCP | use the connected one |
Fetch the doc body. Proceed to Step 3.
Step 2 (paste branch): Prompt for transcript
If no MCP fetch is possible (or the user passed paste), prompt:
Paste the meeting transcript or notes below. End with a blank line + `---END---` on its own line. Common sources:
- Granola export (Markdown)
- Slack thread copy-paste
- Hand-typed notes
- Zoom / Teams / Meet auto-transcript export
- Any plaintext or Markdown
I'll structure it into participants / topics / action items / decisions.
Wait for the paste. Read the content until ---END--- marker. Proceed to Step 3.
Step 3: Structure the Transcript
Parse the transcript body to identify these sections (Claude infers from content; this is NOT a strict parser — handle informal transcripts):
- Participants — names + roles if present. Look for lists at the top, "@" mentions, speaker labels.
- Date + duration — if not explicit, ask user or default to today.
- Topics discussed — section headings, bullet points, "we talked about" markers.
- Action items — "TODO", "[ ]", "@person will", "action:" markers. Extract assignee + description + due date if present.
- Decisions — "we decided", "agreed to", "going with X over Y" patterns. Extract the decision + rationale if stated.
- Open questions — "?", "unresolved", "follow-up", "need to figure out" markers.
- Topic-level summary — 1-2 sentences per major topic.
Be conservative: if a section can't be reliably extracted, mark it (none identified) rather than fabricating.
Step 4: Compose Meeting Note
Slug-ify the meeting title for the filename (from input arg, or extracted from first heading, or "meeting" as fallback). Lowercase, hyphen-separated, ASCII-only, max ~50 chars.
Filename: intake/meetings/{YYYY-MM-DD}-{slug}.md. If a file with that name exists, append -2, -3 to deduplicate.
Body template:
---
date: <YYYY-MM-DD>
title: <meeting title>
source: <doc-url OR "pasted transcript">
source_type: <notion|atlassian|box|egnyte|google docs|paste>
participants: [<name list>]
duration: <if known>
tags: [meeting, <project-tag-if-inferable>]
---
# <Meeting title>
## Context
- **Date:** <YYYY-MM-DD>
- **Source:** <doc-url OR "pasted transcript">
- **Participants:** <comma-separated list>
- **Duration:** <if known, else omit>
## Topics
<for each major topic, with 1-2 sentence summary:>
### <Topic name>
<summary>
## Action Items
<for each action item:>
- [ ] **<assignee>** — <action description> <(due: <date> if present)>
<or: "(none identified)" if section is empty>
## Decisions
<for each decision:>
- **<decision>** — <rationale if stated, else "no rationale captured">
<or: "(none identified)">
## Open Questions
- <question>
<or: "(none identified)">
## Raw Transcript
<the original transcript body, preserved verbatim for reference. If from MCP fetch, include source-doc URL at top of this section.>
---
## Reaction
<intentionally left empty — the user's reaction / why this meeting is worth keeping in knowledge. /audit-knowledge surfaces this for review.>
Step 5: Write + Report
Write the composed meeting note to {knowledge_folder}/intake/meetings/{date}-{slug}.md.
Report to user:
Captured meeting "<title>" to intake/meetings/<date>-<slug>.md.
- Source: <vendor or "pasted">
- Participants: <N>: <list, max 5 + "and N more">
- Topics: <N>
- Action items: <N>
- Decisions: <N>
- Open questions: <N>
Next: add a reaction in the "## Reaction" section (or wait for /audit-knowledge to surface it). Action items + decisions may be worth extracting separately via `/intake extract` on this file if you want them in the standard intake backlogs.