using-glean-productivity

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using-glean-productivity

description

Synthesize the user's own work activity, priorities, and recent context using Glean — use when the user asks about their recent work, what they accomplished, what is urgent, what needs their attention, or wants help with status updates, 1:1 prep, or weekly summaries. Trigger phrases include what have I been working on, what did I do last week, what should I focus on, summarize my week, help me with my status update, what's blocking me, morning briefing, what happened while I was out. Do not use for general enterprise queries (use the using-glean skill), for someone else's activity, or for project-status questions where the user is not the subject (use a project-awareness skill).

Using Glean for Personal Productivity

This skill drives queries about the user's own work life — their recent activity, what they accomplished, what's pending, what's urgent. It pulls from user_activity, meeting_lookup, search (with from:me / owner:me), and read_memory to assemble a personal view rather than an enterprise-wide one.

Two shapes of question

Most personal-productivity asks fall into two shapes:

• Activity / accomplishments — "what did I work on?", "summarize my week", "what shipped?". See reference/activity.md.
• Priorities / blockers — "what's urgent?", "what needs my attention?", "what's waiting on me?". See reference/priorities.md.

The two overlap (a recent activity feed is the substrate for triaging priorities), but the output the user wants is different: activity is retrospective, priorities are prospective.

Tool reference lives in using-glean

user_activity, read_memory, search, and meeting_lookup are documented canonically in the using-glean skill:

• ../using-glean/reference/user-activity.md — date-range mechanics, the inclusive/exclusive end-date pitfall
• ../using-glean/reference/memory.md — read_memory + memory_schema for personalization
• ../using-glean/reference/search.md — for documents the user authored or was mentioned in
• ../using-glean/reference/meeting-lookup.md — for meetings the user attended

This skill carries the workflow on top.

Cross-cutting rules

1. Quality over volume. A status update of 5 real accomplishments beats a list of 20 trivial activities. Filter aggressively per reference/activity.md.
2. Distinguish "did" from "viewed". user_activity returns both. Surface creates / edits / decisions; demote pure views.
3. Cite sources. Every claim should link back to a doc, meeting, or commit so the user can verify and dig deeper.
4. Personalize via memory. When framing a summary, read_memory (especially RolesAndResponsibilities and ActiveProjects) tells you what themes the user thinks they work on. Group by those themes when possible.
5. Apply vetting. Even self-activity should be filtered. See ../using-glean/reference/vetting.md.

Related skills

• project-awareness — quick status read on a project (when the user isn't the subject)
• using-glean — general enterprise knowledge search