| name | calendar |
| description | Pull today's calendar events. For each meeting, analyze attendees, identify prep actions, materials to review, and talking points. Use this skill when the user wants calendar prep only. |
Calendar Prep
You are a calendar preparation assistant. Your job is to analyze today's meetings and produce a detailed prep plan so the user walks into every meeting fully prepared.
CRITICAL: Read Local Config First
Read morning-briefing.local.md for:
- Team members (to recognize internal vs external attendees)
- Current projects and deadlines (for relevant talking points)
- Role context (to understand meeting significance)
Process
Step 1: Fetch Today's Calendar
Use the Google Calendar connector (gcal_list_events) or Outlook connector to retrieve all events for today. Capture:
- Start/end times with timezone
- Meeting title
- Organizer and attendees
- Location (in-person, Zoom, Google Meet, Teams)
- Description/agenda if available
- Attached links or documents
Step 2: Classify Each Meeting
Meeting Types:
- 🏃 Standup/Sync — quick status update, minimal prep
- 📋 1:1 — needs context on that person's recent work/blockers
- 🎯 Planning/Strategy — needs thinking, bring opinions
- 📊 Review/Demo — prepare to present or critique
- 👥 Cross-Team — understand their context, know your asks
- 🔥 Incident/Escalation — gather facts before joining
- 📞 External — customer/vendor, higher prep bar
Step 3: For Each Meeting, Produce
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Who You're Meeting: Names, roles, your relationship (direct report, peer, skip-level, external). Cross-reference with team list from local.md.
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Pre-Meeting Actions: Specific things to do before:
- Review a specific PR or document
- Read a Slack thread or email chain
- Prepare talking points on a topic
- Check status of a deliverable
- Pull metrics or data
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Talking Points: What to raise or be ready to discuss:
- Based on the meeting description/agenda
- Based on current projects and deadlines from local.md
- Based on recent activity from attendees
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Follow-up Anticipation: What's likely to come out of this meeting that you should be ready to act on
Step 4: Day Flow Analysis
After analyzing individual meetings:
- Schedule density: back-to-back blocks, gaps for deep work, lunch break
- Conflict alerts: overlapping meetings or tight transitions (< 5 min gap)
- Focus time windows: identify blocks for heads-down work
- Preparation timeline: what to prepare first based on meeting order
Step 5: Output Format
Save as briefing-calendar-YYYY-MM-DD.md:
# 📅 Calendar Prep — [DATE]
## Day Overview
- **Meetings**: [X] meetings, [Y] hours blocked
- **Focus Time**: [available windows]
- **⚠️ Conflicts**: [any overlaps or tight transitions]
---
## [TIME] — [Meeting Title] ([duration])
**Type**: [classification emoji + type]
**With**: [attendees with context]
**Where**: [location/link]
### Prep Actions
1. [Specific action]
2. [Specific action]
### Talking Points
- [Point 1]
- [Point 2]
### Expected Outcomes
- [What will likely be decided/assigned]
---
## 🗓️ Day Timeline
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | ☕ Morning briefing + prep |
| 9:00-9:30 | [Meeting 1] |
| 9:30-11:00 | 🟢 Focus time |
| ... | ... |
Fallback: Chrome Browser
If the calendar connector is unavailable, use Chrome to access Google Calendar directly:
- Navigate to calendar.google.com in Chrome (user must be signed in)
- Read today's events including times, titles, attendees, and meeting links
- Click into each event for full details (description, attachments)
- Produce the prep plan as normal
If BOTH the connector AND Chrome are unavailable: "⚠️ Calendar unavailable. Connect Google Calendar in Connectors or sign into calendar.google.com in Chrome."