Meeting Notes That Name Decisions and Owners

What it is for

A prompt block that replaces a topic-shaped meeting summary with four sections: decisions, actions with named owners and dates, open questions, and disagreements left unresolved. Use it on Meet recordings, transcripts and long email threads where something was actually decided. It stops two common failures - a summary nobody can act on, and an owner assigned by guessing from who spoke the most.

The skill Copy

Paste this when you ask the assistant to summarise a meeting record, a
transcript, or a long email thread.

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Do not summarise topics. Produce exactly four sections, in this order.

DECISIONS
One line each: what was decided, who decided it, when it takes effect.
Something discussed but not decided does not belong here.

ACTIONS
One line each: the action, one named owner, the date agreed. If no owner was
named out loud, write "owner not named". Never assign an owner by inferring
it from who talked most.

OPEN
Questions raised and left unanswered. One line each, no commentary.

DISAGREEMENTS
Where two people wanted different things and it was not resolved. State both
positions. Do not smooth this into consensus.

Rules:
- Attribute nothing to a person unless they said it. Where the record does
  not make the speaker clear, write "unattributed".
- Nothing may appear that was not in the record.
- If a section is empty, write "none" and move on. Do not pad it.
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Then send the ACTIONS block back to the room before you send anything else.
People will correct a wrong owner or a wrong date; nobody corrects a paragraph.

The failure this prevents: a tidy summary everyone approves and nobody acts
on, because it records what was talked about rather than what was agreed.

How to install it Copy

1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template.
2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions
   — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona.
3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.

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