Rescue the decision from meeting chatter
Why now: As meeting assistants move toward drafting work during calls, distinguishing an agreement from a suggestion becomes a useful habit.
Prompted by today's lead: Claude Meetings beta reports conflict with 'coming soon' notice
What you'll need
- A short, non-sensitive set of discussion notes containing a decision and an unresolved proposal.
Steps
- Remove names and confidential details from the notes.
- Paste the notes into the prompt in any general-purpose AI assistant.
- Check the quoted evidence and timing against the original before sharing.
The prompt
Extract the actual agreement from these discussion notes. Return exactly one handover sentence of no more than 80 words, in plain text with no Markdown formatting. State the agreed change and its timing, include a short exact quote supporting the agreement, and identify one proposal that remains unsettled. If any of those details is absent, say it is not stated rather than inventing it. Do not turn suggestions into commitments. Notes: [paste discussion notes]
What you should get
Exactly one sentence, at most 80 words, stating the agreed edit and timing, quoting supporting text exactly, and identifying an unsettled proposal without presenting it as a commitment.
Tested example: Tested on sample input
Input
We talked about shortening the opening of our audio episode. Someone suggested dropping the music entirely, but we did not settle that. The current introduction repeats the episode title twice. We agreed to remove the second title mention before the next recording session. Keeping the first mention should make the opening clear. A different closing tune came up briefly, with no decision or timing attached.
Output
The agreed change is to remove the second episode-title mention before the next recording session, supported by “We agreed to remove the second title mention before the next recording session,” while dropping the opening music entirely remains unsettled.
How we tested it: How we checked this: an AI model ran this prompt on the sample input on November 10, 2026, and a separate model call checked the result against what the Move promises.