Agent skill

Summarize Meetings

by harperreed in harperreed/dotfiles

A skill your agent uses when processing, summarizing, or extracting insights from meeting notes in the Obsidian vault.

No licenceAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Summarize Meetings

skills CLI
$ npx skills add harperreed/dotfiles --skill summarize-meetings -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install harperreed/dotfiles summarize-meetings --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harperreed/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills-archive/summarize-meetings .claude/skills/summarize-meetings && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
summarize-meetings
GitHub stars
334
Token cost
~3.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,042 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
32
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when processing, summarizing, or extracting insights from meeting notes in the Obsidian vault.

  • Works in 12 steps: Scan the Month → Check for Existing Summaries → Triage → …
  • Extracting insights from meeting notes in the Obsidian vault
  • SKILL.md covers Campaign Workflow, Transcript Format: Granola, Determining "Substantive" and Extraction Categories, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Summarize Meetings is an agent skill from harperreed/dotfiles. Use when processing, summarizing, or extracting insights from meeting notes in the Obsidian vault. Triggers on "summarize meetings", "process meetings", "meeting summaries", "extract from meetings", "meeting insights".

Its SKILL.md is about 3.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Meeting notes and agendas. It works with Obsidian. The repository describes itself as: Dotfiles. Managed by YADM.

When your agent uses it

  • Extracting insights from meeting notes in the Obsidian vault
  • Summarize meetings
  • Process meetings
  • Meeting summaries

Example prompts

  • “summarize meetings”
  • “process meetings”
  • “meeting summaries”
  • “/summarize-meetings”

Workflow steps

12 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Scan the Month
  2. Check for Existing Summaries
  3. Triage
  4. Dispatch Parallel Agents
  5. Compile Monthly Report
  6. Social Media Update
  7. People
  8. Action Items
  9. Project Ideas
  10. Blog Ideas
  11. Knowledge Graph Ideas
  12. Concepts

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b78c10e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are yaml, bash, dot and markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Summarize Meetings loads about 3.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,042 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~59
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,042 words (~3,289 tokens).

“Process meeting transcripts from Meetings/transcripts/ — extract people, action items, project ideas, blog ideas, knowledge graph connections, concepts, and general ideas. Populate the vault knowledge graph and generate rich summary files.”

— opening of SKILL.md by harperreed
name
summarize-meetings

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills-archive/summarize-meetings of harperreed/dotfiles.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b78c10e

Compare with similar skills

Summarize Meetings next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Summarize Meetings this skillharperreed/dotfiles334—~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassNone
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Daily UpdateAr9av/obsidian-wiki3.5k—~2.4kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT
Obsidian Research Logbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.6k—~378Automated safety check: PassCustom licence
Vexa MeetingsVexa-ai/vexa2.9k—~631Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Works with

Questions about Summarize Meetings

What does Summarize Meetings do?

A skill your agent uses when processing, summarizing, or extracting insights from meeting notes in the Obsidian vault. Summarize Meetings is an agent skill from harperreed/dotfiles. Use when processing, summarizing, or extracting insights from meeting notes in the Obsidian vault.

When should I use Summarize Meetings?

Summarize Meetings fits situations like: extracting insights from meeting notes in the Obsidian vault; summarize meetings; process meetings; meeting summaries.

How do I install Summarize Meetings in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add harperreed/dotfiles --skill summarize-meetings -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills-archive/summarize-meetings in harperreed/dotfiles) into .claude/skills/summarize-meetings in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Summarize Meetings in Codex?

Run `npx skills add harperreed/dotfiles --skill summarize-meetings -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills-archive/summarize-meetings in harperreed/dotfiles) into .agents/skills/summarize-meetings in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Summarize Meetings in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add harperreed/dotfiles --skill summarize-meetings -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/summarize-meetings, .gemini/skills/summarize-meetings, .github/skills/summarize-meetings and .opencode/skills/summarize-meetings in your project.

What does Summarize Meetings need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Summarize Meetings is instructions for the agent only.

Does Summarize Meetings access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Summarize Meetings safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Summarize Meetings use?

No licence was found for Summarize Meetings or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Summarize Meetings use?

About 3.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 13k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Summarize Meetings?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Summarize Meetings: Daily Journal (ravila4/claude-adhd-skills, 158 stars), Granola (ArtemXTech/claude-code-obsidian-starter, 225 stars), Daily Update (Ar9av/obsidian-wiki, 3.5k stars) and Obsidian Research Log (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Summarize Meetings?

harperreed (a GitHub user) maintains it in harperreed/dotfiles, which has 334 GitHub stars. The repository holds 32 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 3, 2026.

Source: harperreed/dotfiles on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.