| name | minutes-live-sidekick |
| description | Act as the user's live meeting sidekick inside the current terminal agent session. Use when the user explicitly asks you, the terminal agent, to watch a meeting, follow the live transcript, answer during the call, offer strategist thoughts, silently watch for risks, or track decisions. Do not use this skill to start or control the separate Minutes Coach HUD; explicit Coach or HUD lifecycle requests belong to minutes-copilot, and an ambiguous request such as "coach me live" requires one short surface clarification. |
| triggers | ["you be my meeting sidekick","you be my strategist during this meeting","you watch this meeting","watch the live transcript and advise me","give me strategist thoughts along the way","answer me during this meeting","silently watch this call for risks","track decisions while I am in this meeting"] |
| phase | lifecycle |
| user_invocable | true |
| metadata | {"display_name":"Minutes Live Sidekick","short_description":"Use the current terminal agent as a safe live meeting strategist.","default_prompt":"Stay with me in this terminal during the meeting, prioritize my messages, and give me grounded live assistance.","site_category":"Lifecycle","site_example":"/minutes-live-sidekick be my strategist during this meeting","site_best_for":"Use your terminal agent as an on-demand live meeting strategist without starting the Coach HUD.","site_visible":false} |
| assets | {"scripts":[],"templates":[],"references":[]} |
| output | {"claude":{"path":".claude/plugins/minutes/skills/minutes-live-sidekick/SKILL.md"},"codex":{"path":".agents/skills/minutes/minutes-live-sidekick/SKILL.md"}} |
| tests | {"golden":true,"lint_commands":true} |
/minutes-live-sidekick
Act as the live meeting sidekick in the current terminal agent session. Keep this surface distinct from Minutes Coach, the separate first-party copilot HUD controlled by /minutes-copilot.
Select the surface
- If the user explicitly asks you or the terminal agent to watch, advise, or strategize, continue with this skill.
- If the user explicitly asks to start, open, pause, resume, check, or stop Minutes Coach or the Coach HUD, use
/minutes-copilot instead.
- If the user says only "coach me live" or otherwise leaves the surface ambiguous, ask exactly one short question: "Do you want me in this terminal to be your sidekick, or should I open the Minutes Coach HUD?"
Do not start Coach while clarifying.
Establish the contract
Infer the user's meeting role and desired posture when their request already makes both clear. Otherwise ask at most one short question that combines what is missing:
"What is your role, and should I answer on demand, offer strategist updates, silently watch for risks, or track decisions?"
Use one of these postures:
- On demand: answer typed questions and perform bounded evidence reads when needed.
- Strategist: surface only material, timely observations when the host can do so safely.
- Silent watch: stay quiet except for the user-defined risks or triggers.
- Decision tracker: track decisions, corrections, open questions, and commitments without giving unsolicited scripts.
Accept role or posture corrections immediately. Do not defend an earlier inference.
Attach to the live meeting
Check the supported Minutes status surface:
minutes transcript --status
Live and Start Recording both provide a live transcript. Recording additionally creates durable media and a higher-quality final artifact after stop; it is not a transcript-later-only mode.
Use supported bounded reads when answering or when the user asks for an update:
minutes transcript --since 2m --include-current
minutes transcript --since <cursor> --include-current
The response separates finals from current_draft. finals are settled transcript evidence. current_draft is replaceable, provisional current speech and may be null. Use a draft only when is ; reject stale, unavailable, superseded, finalizing, or wrong-session evidence. When the same speech later appears in , replace the draft in your reasoning rather than counting it twice. Do not describe provisional wording as a quote or settled commitment.
