# foundation-meeting-brief

Creates a private tactical preparation brief before high-stakes meetings. It maps stakeholder positions, key messages, and prepared responses.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 686 installs · ★ 763
- Author: product-on-purpose
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/foundation-meeting-brief/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/foundation-meeting-brief

## What it does

This skill builds a private preparation document before critical stakeholder reviews or negotiations. Unlike an agenda, attendees never see this brief. It stores tactical messages, identified risks, and specific asks directed at colleagues. When local project memory exists, it reads recent context without demanding manual input.

Every run starts with an anti-meeting check. The skill insists on a clear reason for live conversation, such as resolving a conflict or unblocking progress. If no synchronous purpose exists, it advises switching to an async channel instead. This stops wasteful calendar clutter.

Missing details are inferred from past recaps and stakeholder notes. Low-confidence assumptions receive an explicit warning flag to avoid misguided tactics. Passing the `--go` argument bypasses the confirmation summary when speed is essential.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill foundation-meeting-brief -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill foundation-meeting-brief -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill foundation-meeting-brief -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install product-on-purpose/pm-skills foundation-meeting-brief
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/foundation-meeting-brief/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill foundation-meeting-brief -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills --path skills/foundation-meeting-brief
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill foundation-meeting-brief -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/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/foundation-meeting-brief/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Map stakeholder positions and potential friction points before negotiations
- Draft prioritized messages phrased for spoken delivery
- Prepare responses for anticipated critical questions
- Define specific individual asks instead of vague alignment goals

## Example prompts
- Create a private meeting brief for tomorrow's executive review.
- Draft a tactical brief for the resource negotiation using --go.

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

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---
name: foundation-meeting-brief
description: Produces a private strategic preparation document for the user before a meeting that matters. Captures stakes, stakeholder positions and reads, ranked desired outcomes, key messages, anticipated questions with prepared responses, risks and tensions, specific asks, and success signals. Distinct from meeting-agenda because this artifact is not shared with attendees; it is the user's personal tactical prep for meetings where positioning matters.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  classification: foundation
  version: "1.1.0"
  updated: 2026-07-04
  category: meeting
  frameworks: [meeting-skills-family]
  author: product-on-purpose
---
<!-- PM-Skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills | Apache 2.0 -->
# Meeting Brief

A meeting brief is the user's private strategic preparation document for a meeting where context, stakes, or positioning matter. It captures what the user needs to know, what they want to accomplish, who they are engaging with, and how to navigate the conversation. This is strategic prep, not meeting structure, which keeps it distinct from a meeting agenda.

This skill belongs to the Meeting Skills Family. It conforms to the [Meeting Skills Family Contract](../../docs/reference/skill-families/meeting-skills-contract.md).

## When to Use

- Walking into a stakeholder review, exec briefing, or negotiation-adjacent conversation
- First meeting with a new stakeholder where relationship calibration matters
- A meeting where the user needs something from others (capacity commitment, decision, approval)
- Any conversation where specific positioning, messaging, or risk navigation is required

## When NOT to Use

- Preparing the agenda attendees will see. Use `foundation-meeting-agenda` instead.
- Post-meeting summarization. Use `foundation-meeting-recap`.
- The meeting is low-stakes and well-trodden (recurring team sync, standup). A brief is overhead for these; the agenda alone is sufficient.

## Zero-friction execution

Per the family contract, this skill never blocks on interrogation. Default flow:

1. Read all provided inputs (topic, attendees, prior recaps, stakeholder summaries, user's primary ask)
2. Auto-discover related artifacts via `project` or `topics` frontmatter match
3. Run inference on missing values (stakeholder positions from prior recaps, primary ask from topic, top-3 goals from meeting type)
4. Present a brief inference summary and accept one-word `go` or corrections
5. Produce the brief

If invoked with `--go`, skip the inference summary. If the user provides all values upfront, no checkpoint appears.
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