# board-minutes

Drafts board and committee meeting minutes using your corporate house format. It spots meetings on your calendar, pulls agenda slides, and prepares formal drafts.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 629 installs · ★ 9795
- Author: anthropics · official Anthropic repository
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/HEAD/corporate-legal/skills/board-minutes/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/board-minutes

## What it does

The skill checks your calendar 30 days ahead or 14 days back for terms like "Board of Directors" or "Audit Committee". If the calendar connector is inactive, Claude asks directly for the meeting date and attendance list. Agenda items and presentation slides provide the basis for resolutions containing action verbs like "approve" or "ratify".

House formatting is strictly enforced. The skill pulls resolution language and board rosters from `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/CLAUDE.md`. Generic layouts are rejected: without an established format in the configuration, drafting stops until cold-start runs.

Quorum is verified before generating any text. If a quorum was not present under company bylaws or state corporate law, the skill halts drafting immediately. This prevents creating a record that implies a valid meeting occurred.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill board-minutes -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/board-minutes/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/board-minutes/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill board-minutes -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/board-minutes/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill board-minutes -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/board-minutes/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal board-minutes
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/board-minutes/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill board-minutes -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --path corporate-legal/skills/board-minutes
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/board-minutes/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill board-minutes -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/HEAD/corporate-legal/skills/board-minutes/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- draft board and committee meeting minutes
- locate past or upcoming meetings in the calendar
- verify quorum requirements against company bylaws
- prepare written consents in lieu of meetings

## Example prompts
- run `draft minutes` using the uploaded presentation slides
- draft `board minutes` for the last audit committee session
- check calendar for `upcoming board meeting` and outline the draft

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: board-minutes
description: >
  Drafts board or committee meeting minutes in your house format. Auto-detects
  upcoming board and committee meetings from your calendar, asks for the agenda
  and any slides or pre-read materials, and produces a complete draft in the
  format learned from your seed minutes. Also handles written consents in lieu
  of meetings. Trigger: "board minutes", "draft minutes", "upcoming board
  meeting", "committee minutes", "written consent", or calendar detection of
  an upcoming board or committee event.
---

# Board Minutes

## Matter context

**Matter context.** Check `## Matter workspaces` in the practice-level CLAUDE.md. If `Enabled` is `✗` (the default for in-house users), skip the rest of this paragraph — skills use practice-level context and the matter machinery is invisible. If enabled and there is no active matter, ask: "Which matter is this for? Run `/corporate-legal:matter-workspace switch <slug>` or say `practice-level`." Load the active matter's `matter.md` for matter-specific context and overrides. Write outputs to the matter folder at `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/matters/<matter-slug>/`. Never read another matter's files unless `Cross-matter context` is `on`.

---

## Purpose

Board minutes are a legal record. They need to be accurate, complete, and in a format that will hold up under scrutiny — whether that's a financing due diligence review, a regulatory inquiry, or an M&A data room. This skill drafts them in your house format so you spend your time reviewing and correcting, not formatting and re-typing.

## Load context

- `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/CLAUDE.md` → `## Board & Secretary` section:
  - Minutes format (long-form narrative / action minutes / hybrid)
  - Minutes template extracted from seed documents (structure, resolution language, header format)
  - Board composition and committees
  - Written consents — what they're used for and any limits
- If `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/CLAUDE.md` has no minutes format: run cold-start first. Do not proceed with a generic format.

---

## Step 1: Identify the meeting

### Calendar detection

If the calendar connector is authorized, search for upcoming events matching board and committee keywords:

**Search terms:** "Board of Directors", "Board Meeting", "Audit Committee", "Compensation Committee", "Comp Committee", "Nominating", "Nom/Gov", "Governance Committee", "Special Committee", "Board of Directors — [Company]"

**Time window:** Look 30 days forward. If no upcoming meeting is found, look 14 days back (minutes are often drafted after the fact).

Present what you find:

> I found the following board or committee meetings on your calendar:
>
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