summarize-chat

name	summarize-chat
description	Summarize a Claude.ai conversation export into structured human-readable notes. Use when the user has a saved conversation text file and wants a dated summary .md file written to the current directory.

summarize-chat

Runs summarize_chat.py against a conversation text file and writes a dated summary markdown file to the current working directory.

Prerequisites

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY must be set. The script uses uv run with inline dependencies, so no manual install step is needed beyond having uv available.

Usage

uv run ~/.claude/skills/summarize-chat/summarize_chat.py <file>

Optional flags:

• --model <id> — override the Claude model (default: claude-sonnet-4-6)
• --output <path> — write to a specific path instead of the auto-named default

Output

The script prints the output path on success. The default filename is:

<cwd>/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<source-stem>-summary.md

For example, running against chat-776d8ae5.txt on 2026-06-30 produces:

<cwd>/2026-06-30-chat-776d8ae5-summary.md

Output structure

## Summary
## Decisions and Outcomes
## Context and Reasoning
## Open Questions
## Links and References
## Observations

Sections with nothing real to say are omitted from the output.

How to invoke as a skill

When the user runs /summarize-chat with a file path argument, run:

uv run ~/.claude/skills/summarize-chat/summarize_chat.py "<file-path>"

Print the output path on completion and offer to open the file.