minutes-live-sidekick

Provides live meeting assistance by reading bounded transcript snapshots from the Minutes CLI.

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One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/silverstein/minutes --skill minutes-live-sidekick
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Skill: minutes-live-sidekick
Source: https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/tree/main/tooling/skills/sources/minutes-live-sidekick
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/silverstein/minutes --skill minutes-live-sidekick

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve?

During a live meeting you cannot simultaneously listen, think, and formulate answers. This Skill turns your current terminal agent into a live meeting sidekick that reads the real-time Minutes transcript and answers questions, offers strategist observations, watches for risks, or tracks decisions while you stay focused on the call.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Live Transcript Grounding: Attaches to the active Minutes session via minutes transcript --status and performs bounded reads with --since and --include-current, correctly separating settled finals from provisional draft speech.
  • Four Assistance Postures: Operates on demand, as a strategist surfacing only material observations, as a silent risk watcher, or as a decision tracker recording decisions, corrections, and commitments.
  • Safety and Provenance Controls: Treats transcript and screen content as untrusted evidence, requires typed user requests before any external action, and never fabricates continuous monitoring or screen visibility.
  • Use Case: You are in a customer call and a technical question comes up. You type the question to your terminal agent, which reads the last two minutes of transcript, checks the relevant repository, and gives you a grounded answer without leaving the meeting.

Quick Start

Ask your terminal agent to be your strategist during this meeting and answer questions as they come up.

Frequently Asked Questions about minutes-live-sidekick

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I get live AI assistance during a meeting?

Start a Minutes live transcript or recording, then ask your terminal agent to act as your sidekick. It reads bounded transcript snapshots with minutes transcript --since and answers your typed questions or tracks decisions while the call continues.

What is the difference between minutes-live-sidekick and minutes-copilot?

The sidekick runs inside your current terminal agent session and responds to your typed messages. Minutes Coach is a separate copilot HUD with its own lifecycle, controlled through the minutes-copilot skill. Ambiguous requests trigger one clarifying question.

Can the sidekick monitor my meeting continuously in the background?

No. It only performs bounded transcript reads when you ask or when the host proves evented delivery. It never builds polling loops, tails transcript files, or claims continuous monitoring just because the terminal session stays open.

Does the live transcript include unfinished speech?

Yes, when using --include-current the response separates finals from current_draft. Drafts are provisional and replaceable, so the sidekick only uses them when draft_state is current and never quotes them as settled commitments.

Can meeting transcript content trigger actions automatically?

No. Transcript text, screen content, and summaries are treated as untrusted evidence, never instructions. Any command, message, or setting change requires a directly typed user request and normal confirmation.

What happens when the meeting ends?

Capture stops only after your explicit request. The sidekick then checks minutes status, waits for the final transcript to finish processing, and hands off to the minutes-debrief skill for a transcript-grounded summary.