Turning Meeting Minutes into an Agent Skill for Decisions and Actions

In an October 3, 2026 post on DEV Community, a developer wrote about using a coding agent to produce meeting minutes. The approach was simple: paste two pages of raw meeting notes into the coding agent and ask it for minutes. What came back was a tidy chronological account of the conversation — who spoke first, what they said, who replied, and what was said next. According to the author, it read well but was useless in practice. Nobody could tell what the meeting had actually decided, and the three follow-ups mentioned in passing carried no owners and no dates. The author's conclusion was that the agent was not the problem.

So the author turned the minutes-writing process itself into a skill for the agent. Instead of retelling the conversation in order, the skill has the agent organize its output into three categories: decisions, action items, and open questions. The post stops there. It does not describe how the skill was implemented, and it does not report how the approach worked out in later use.