html-meeting-minutes-from-notes
Writes the minutes of a client meeting as one HTML file and an A4 PDF from the notes a person brings back (what was decided, what is still to be confirmed, who does what by when, the next meeting), for sending the same day. Use when a user asks for meeting minutes, a meeting record, a 회의록 or a write-up of a meeting to send to a client or a partner, or wants minutes as a PDF rather than in a document tool. Sorts the notes into decisions, questions and answers, items to confirm and actions, keeps what was said for the organization's own ears out, writes one minutes file (JSON), renders it in grayscale with the client's logo first, checks the wording against the declared house style, prints the PDF with a Chromium-family browser, looks at the render, and delivers the HTML and the PDF into the client's folder with what to confirm before sending. Plain prose, with no account of intentions or of how a decision was reached. Slides from the same meeting are html-deck-from-outline, not this skill.
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Inherited rules
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Nothing internal crosses. A document that goes to a client or a partner carries nothing the organization said for its own ears (its costs, staffing, judgments, doubts, terms it has not agreed to); what stays out is listed before the document is written and recorded where the organization keeps its own notes.
The records come first. The facts of a meeting, a visit or a delivery (who, when, where, what was agreed before) are read from the organization's records where they exist, never asked for first and never invented; what a run learns is written back there.
Minutes of a client meeting, in HTML and PDF, from notes
Notes go in: what the person who sat in the meeting wrote down or remembers, in any shape (bullet points, a chat message, a transcribed voice memo), plus the facts the organization already holds about the meeting (its date and place, who attended, the project's name, the previous minutes). Out come one minutes file (JSON: the header table and the sections), one self-contained HTML page, one A4 PDF printed from it, and a preview the agent has looked at, in the folder where the organization keeps this client's minutes. The minutes are a working document the client's own people use after the meeting, not a formality: decisions, questions and their answers, items to confirm, actions and the next meeting, each in one plain sentence, and nothing about why or how. The HTML opens anywhere and is what the next edit is checked against; the PDF is what gets sent. Nothing is generated by a model and nothing is spent; the only tool beyond the shell is a browser that prints to PDF.
How the user is involved
- Questions: only for the notes, when the request has nothing to draw on, and once per organization for the house style, when neither the request nor the organization's records say: asked with the split checkpoint, in the user's language, as "Does your organization ban any characters or heading forms in external documents? The usual set is middle dots, em and en dashes, circled numbers and bracketed heads; one word keeps that set." The usual set is the default, and the answer is written into the organization's records (a
notes.mdin the brand folder, or the organization's handbook where it has one), so that the next run, for any client, finds it. Everything else (the meeting's facts, the language, the sections, the logos, the file name, the folder, what stays internal) is derived from the notes and the organization's records and stated at the first checkpoint. - Checkpoints: the split (what goes into the minutes and what stays in the organization's own record) before the minutes file is written, and the preview after the render. Each is one message, as short as the split allows; "OK" continues.
- Go-ahead: when the user says to go ahead alone, both checkpoints are skipped; the delivery still lists what stayed internal and what to confirm, and the sending stays the user's word.
- Sending and sharing: the minutes leave the organization only when the user says they are final. Emailing them and posting them to a shared board or a project document are the user's explicit steps, never done on the way; the skill ends with the files in the folder and a note of what to send where.
- Feedback rounds: every note on a draft goes into the minutes file, and the whole page is rendered, looked at and delivered again as HTML and PDF. The HTML and the PDF are never edited by hand. A note on the look (a colored title, a logo too large, a section that reads as a label) is a note on the whole document: review-notes.md keeps the notes reviewers give with the move that answers each.
Requirements
| What | Used for |
|---|---|
| A shell with Python 3, and Playwright in it for the PDF | The helper scripts/render.py in this directory runs the house-style check, renders the minutes file to HTML and prints the PDF. The Python it runs with is the one that has Playwright: a virtual environment the organization or the host keeps counts and is preferred to any install; without one, pip install playwright into a virtual environment of the run's own (the driver, no browser) is said in a line, and the system Python is touched only on the user's word. Without Playwright at all, the HTML is still written, and minutes-spec.md "Markup and style" gives the markup, enough to write it by hand. |
| A Chromium-family browser the agent can drive | Printing the HTML to A4 with backgrounds on. The helper launches the Chrome or Edge already installed, so that no browser is downloaded; python render.py --browser-check launches and closes it and names the channel that answered, which is the check. Any browser the agent can drive with a print-to-PDF call does the same, as rendering-html.md "PDF at a declared page size" and headless.md "Playwright from Python" say (a browser download is asked first). Without one, deliver the HTML and say the PDF is printed from the browser's print dialog at A4 with background graphics on. |
| The organization's records of the client | The project's name, the meeting's place, the attendees' names and titles, the previous minutes, the folder where this client's documents live, the house style, and the two logo files: read where they exist and never asked for first. Look next to the notes and in the folder they came from, in the organization's client and brand folders, and in the meeting's own entry on the organization's board or calendar where it keeps one; a path a project page gives is read from the folder that holds the records. When nothing is found, the facts come from the notes alone, and the delivery says which ones to confirm. |
Check the Python, Playwright and the browser before the first message. Nothing here costs money. What any skill that renders a page with a browser shares (the print, the fonts, looking at a render) is in the repository's document set docs/browser/, read through the repository connection when phases 3 and 4 link it; a copy of this directory, the area's plugin and a mount of one area or one skill cannot read it, and the helper and minutes-spec.md carry what the PDF and the review need.
Inputs
| Input | Source |
|---|---|
| Notes | What the user brings back from the meeting. Asked only when the request has nothing to draw on. The notes stay as they are: nothing is written into them. |
| Meeting facts | Date, time, place, attendees with their titles, the project's name, the previous minutes: from the organization's records and the meeting's own entry; from the notes where the records are silent. An attendee the records do not name is not invented: the confirmed names with their titles, then "and others" in the minutes' language, when the room was fuller. The author is the organization's attendee who brought the notes. A weekday is computed from the date, never copied. |
| Language | The language the client reads, which is the notes' unless the records say otherwise. Everything in the file (the headings, the header labels, the columns, the kind) is in it, in the terms the organization's earlier minutes use; with none, the terms minutes-spec.md "Terms" gives. Sentences are plain declaratives in the register the earlier minutes use, with none the neutral written one (Korean 한다체), never the clipped note form. |
| Audience | Always external: the client and anyone between (an intermediary, another contractor). The house-style check is always on. |
| House style | The characters and heading forms the organization bans in external documents, from the request or the organization's records, asked once as above when nothing says; the usual set is the default. Left out of the minutes file when it is the usual set, which the helper then applies whole; written into the file's style only when the organization's set differs, in the same shape the deck skill (html-deck-from-outline) uses, so that an organization declares it once. |
| Logos | The client's logo and the organization's wordmark, from the organization's brand folder and the partner assets it already holds. The client's first. A logo the organization does not hold is not fetched: the header carries the organization's name in type instead. |
| What stays internal | Derived by the split in phase 1 and listed at its checkpoint: the organization's own judgments, costs and staffing, anything that would read as a commitment the contract does not make, and anything said for the room's own ears. |
| Output names | Derived: YYMMDD <project> <minutes>, with the organization's word for minutes in the minutes' language (260101 Example Project Minutes), or the organization's own pattern where its earlier minutes show one. No meeting kind in the name, since the date tells meetings apart, and no client name, since the client reads it. In the minutes folder of this client's project folder; next to the notes when the organization has none. |
Workflow
Phase 1: Split the notes
Read the notes whole, then sort every statement into the sections it feeds: a decision (both sides agreed to it), a question and its answer, an item to confirm (left open, to be checked), an action (someone does something by some time), the next meeting, or internal (stays in the organization's own record). A statement may feed two: a decision that is also an action goes to both, an answer with an open end to the questions and to the items to confirm. A decision is written as what will be done, in one sentence, with the actor where one side does it. An answer the organization gave is softened to what was said and no more ("is expected to", not "will"). A figure the organization quoted in the room (a price, a size) crosses only with its caveat in the same sentence, under the question it answered or, when no noted question asked for it, under the items to confirm, and the checkpoint names it so that the user can strike it. An action with no time in the notes is an item to confirm, not an action with a time of the agent's. An action the other party does on its own (getting an internal approval, booking a room) is not listed; what both sides wait on is.
Apply the composition rules below while splitting. Show the split (checkpoint): the derived facts in one line (the title, the date, the place, the attendees, the file name and folder, the logos, the language), then the decisions in one line each, the questions and answers, the items to confirm, the actions with their owners and planned dates, the next meeting, and what stays internal, with the house-style question at the end when it is open. The user corrects anything; the corrected split is written, not argued.
Phase 2: Write the minutes file
Write the minutes file as minutes-spec.md defines it: file, lang, kind, title, logos, style only when the house style is not the usual set, meta (four rows: date and time, place, attendees, author; no distribution row and no subtitle), then sections, numbered in their headings and in this order: overview (two sentences at most, what the meeting went through), decisions, questions and answers, a reference table where the room was given several figures (unnumbered, "Reference."; one figure stays in its sentence), items to confirm, actions (a table of item, owner, planned), next meeting. A section with nothing in it is left out. Every string is final text in the minutes' language, within the house style from the first draft; the check in phase 3 is a net, not the editor. Nothing listed as internal at the checkpoint enters the file.
In the same run, write the organization's own record: what stayed
operations/skills/html-meeting-minutes-from-notes/references/minutes-spec.md
Files of this skill
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