meeting-prep

name	meeting-prep
description	Prepare contact dossiers before meetings. Use when you need to research someone before a meeting, create a contact card in Obsidian, or check upcoming meetings that lack a briefing.
when_to_use	Use when a meeting is coming up, when you need background on a new contact, or during morning heartbeat to check calendar for unbriefed meetings.

Meeting Prep — Contact Dossier

What This Skill Does

1. Finds upcoming meetings in the calendar
2. Searches the web for information about participants
3. Creates/updates contact cards in Obsidian (if configured)
4. Prepares a concise briefing

Rules

1. 2 hours before the meeting — prepare dossiers for all external participants
2. Check Obsidian first — don't duplicate existing files
3. Append, don't overwrite — if file exists, add new info
4. After the meeting — add a link to the note in the daily log
5. Call summaries — reformat for Obsidian but preserve the original

Meeting Note Format (with summary)

# Meeting: {Participant} — {Topic}
**Date:** {date}

---

## Key Topics
{reformatted structure}

## Next Steps
{action items from summary}

---

## 📝 Original Summary

> {original text as-is}

Quick Start

Check calendar for meetings without briefings

gog calendar events --days 7

Check existing contacts

ls "${OBSIDIAN_VAULT}/88- Contacts/" | grep -i "{name}"

If file exists — read and update as needed.

Research a person

1. Web search (LinkedIn, news, publications)
2. Create contact file from template
3. Send briefing to messaging platform

Information Sources

⚡ Primary: web_search (Perplexity)

web_search("{Full Name} position company LinkedIn experience")
web_search("{Full Name} news interviews publications")
web_search("{Full Name} controversy legal") — for due diligence

Priority Order

1. LinkedIn — positions, experience, education
2. News — media mentions, achievements, controversies
3. Publications — articles, blogs, op-eds
4. Social — Twitter/X, personal blog
5. Companies — orgs they've worked at
6. Legal — court filings if relevant (finance, politics)

Web Fetch for specific URLs

web_fetch("https://linkedin.com/in/username")

Contact Card Template

See references/contact-template.md

Briefing Template

## 🎯 Briefing: {Name} — {Meeting Date}

**Who they are:**
- {Title} at {Company}
- {Key fact}

**Background:**
- {2-3 career highlights}

**Interesting:**
- {Unusual facts, hobbies, public positions}

**⚠️ Watch out for:**
- {Red flags if any}

**Possible topics:**
- {Shared interests, overlap points}

📋 Full dossier: {link to Obsidian note}

Automation

Cron (optional)

Daily calendar check at 08:00 for meetings in the next 48h:

text: "Check the calendar for the next 48 hours. For each external meeting without a dossier, prepare one."
schedule: "0 8 * * *"

HEARTBEAT.md trigger

### 📅 Meeting Prep (morning)
- Check today's and tomorrow's calendar
- For new contacts — build dossier

Dossier Depth

Minimum (5 min)

• Full name, title, company
• LinkedIn profile URL
• 1-2 news mentions

Standard (15 min)

• Full profile (career, education)
• Public activity
• Contact info
• 3-5 sources

Deep (30+ min) — for high-stakes meetings

• Detailed career timeline
• Analysis of writings and talks
• Network (who knows them, who introduced you)
• Due diligence (legal, controversies if relevant)
• Interest analysis (hobbies, social media patterns)

Obsidian Integration

Configure via environment or config.json:

{
  "obsidian_vault": "${OBSIDIAN_VAULT}",
  "contacts_path": "88- Contacts",
  "meetings_path": "88- Contacts/Meetings"
}

File Naming

• Contact: {Last Name First Name}.md
• Meeting: {YYYY-MM-DD} {Name} - {Topic}.md