Meeting Brief

Meeting Brief

This is a Hermes-native meeting-brief workflow skill.

Why This Exists

meeting-brief exists to turn scattered context into a focused agenda, discussion prompts, decision points, and a record template without pretending the meeting already happened.

Do Not Use When

• The user needs observed meeting minutes, decisions, or action items but has not provided notes.
• The request is strategy synthesis without a meeting audience, agenda, or decision ceremony.
• The follow-up is implementation work that already has accepted requirements and should become a plan or handoff.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: Prepare a meeting agenda for a leadership sync on setup UX, plugin bridge defaults, and release risk.
• Expected behavior: Prepare agenda topics, prompts, decisions needed, and a record template with unknowns marked.
• Why: The request is preparation for a meeting and should separate prep from observed outcomes.

Bad example:

• Prompt: meeting-brief summarize what the team decided yesterday.
• Expected behavior: Ask for meeting notes or route to an ops/status summary with explicit evidence gaps.
• Why: A prepared agenda cannot be treated as observed minutes or decisions.

Completion Checklist

• The agenda, participants or audience, decisions needed, and record template are named.
• Meeting prep, observed minutes, accepted decisions, and action ownership are separate states.
• Missing context that would change the meeting structure is surfaced.

Recovery Notes

• If participants, purpose, or decision owner are missing, ask for the one field that changes the agenda.
• If minutes or decisions were not observed, keep the output as prep rather than record.

OMH Context Rail

• This skill is part of OMH's Hermes workflow layer, not a standalone executor.
• Product context: OMH is a Hermes-native workflow pack: choose skills, shape work, prepare artifacts, show status, and hand off with evidence boundaries.
• Current lane: Research and company ops (source-finder, web-research, best-practice-research, autoresearch-goal, research-brief, strategy-brief, feedback-triage, research-department, +6 more) - research, signals, ops, and briefings.
• If the user intent belongs to another OMH lane, hand back to oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow instead of force-fitting this skill.
• Cross-skill context: every OMH skill: match lane; generic tool can render or execute.
• Generic-tool checkpoint: image->img-summary; frontend->frontend/a11y/visual-qa; paper->paper-learning; content->content-operator; media->media-input-operator; file->materials-package; search->web-research; live->live-info-operator; audit->workspace/production/security; failures->build-failure; verify->verification-gate; code->codegraph/onboarding/ultraprocess.
• Coverage: Every generated workflow skill carries this rail.
• Normal users talk to Hermes; OMH CLI is infra.
• Boundary: Prepared OMH routing, cards, handoffs, or artifacts are not observed execution, image generation, delivery, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.

Use When

Use when Hermes should prepare a meeting agenda, discussion prompts, decision points, and a record template.

Strong routing signals: meeting-brief, meeting brief, meeting agenda, agenda, discussion prompts, decisions needed, record template, meeting topics, 회의 주제, 회의 아젠다, 아젠다, 회의 준비, 논의 질문, 결정할 것, 기록 템플릿

Catalog Metadata

Category: meeting Phase: preparation Hermes role: operator Quality tier: facilitation-gated

Quality bar:

• Turn context into agenda topics, prompts, decisions needed, and a record template.
• Keep prep distinct from actual meeting minutes or accepted decisions.
• Identify missing context that would change the meeting structure.

Handoff policy:

Run meeting preparation in Hermes; only create follow-up coding handoff from observed decisions or accepted plans.

Required inputs:

• meeting goal
• audience
• known context
• decision topics

Expected outputs:

• agenda
• discussion prompts
• decisions needed
• action-item template

Artifact expectations:

• meeting brief or record template when the wrapper captures it

Safety rules:

• Do not claim the meeting happened from a prepared agenda.
• Separate proposed action items from observed decisions.
• Use a later status or decision record for actual meeting outcomes.

Harness Discipline

• Start from the representative harness registry in oh-my-hermes when the workflow needs coding, research, planning, goal execution, architecture, critique, QA, or documentation lanes.
• Prefer richer evidence and clearer stop conditions over adding more workflow names.
• Use specialist lanes only when they change the quality of the answer or verification.

Runtime Evidence

Preferred harness for this skill: meeting-facilitation.

When local shell access or a bot wrapper is available, record metadata-only evidence:

omh runtime record --skill meeting-brief --harness meeting-facilitation --status started
omh runtime delegate --run  --requested --not-observed --result not_observed

Record observed delegation results when Hermes or the wrapper exposes them. If delegation is unavailable, keep the result explicit as not_available or not_observed.

Hermes Compatibility Contract

• Preserve the workflow intent, stop conditions, and verification discipline.
• Use Hermes-native tools, file operations, and subagent/delegation features when available.
• Do not require runtime tools, role prompts, or overlays that Hermes Agent does not expose.
• Respect omh_target_topology/v1 when a wrapper reports it: bind state to the current target/thread, adapt only the parts of this workflow that benefit from multiple Hermes agents, and fall back to single-target behavior when active_agent_count is one.
• When target topology changes from one to many or many to one, give a concise setup-change comment or use the wrapper's apply action before treating the new topology as persistent.
• Treat wrapper-supplied memory/context summaries as advisory local context, not proof that opaque Hermes memory was read or changed.
• When a runtime-specific mechanism appears in imported instructions, translate it to a Hermes-native artifact:
• goal tools -> .omh/goals/ ledgers, goal_completion_gate/v1, goal_status_card/v1, goal_continuation/v1, or explicit checklists with named next actions,
• question renderers -> one concise question in the current Hermes interface,
• native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes,
• shell bridge commands -> optional bridge mode only.

Execution Rules

1. Load supporting context with skills_list / skill_view when needed.
2. State the workflow target, constraints, validation evidence, and stop condition.
3. Keep progress evidence-backed.
4. Verify with the smallest relevant test or inspection before claiming completion.
5. If Hermes cannot provide a required runtime capability, say so and use the fallback above.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: rlaope
• Source: rlaope/oh-my-hermes
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://rlaope.github.io/oh-my-hermes/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.