# Minutes Live Sidekick

Act as the user's live meeting sidekick inside the current terminal agent session.

- Repository: https://github.com/silverstein/minutes (1583 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add silverstein/minutes --skill minutes-live-sidekick -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add silverstein/minutes --skill minutes-live-sidekick -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add silverstein/minutes --skill minutes-live-sidekick -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add silverstein/minutes --skill minutes-live-sidekick -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add silverstein/minutes`

## Description

Act as the user's live meeting sidekick inside the current terminal agent session. Use when the user explicitly asks you, the terminal agent, to watch a meeting, follow the live transcript, answer during the call, offer strategist thoughts, silently watch for risks, or track decisions. Do not use this skill to start or control the separate Minutes Coach HUD; explicit Coach or HUD lifecycle requests belong to minutes-copilot, and an ambiguous request such as "coach me live" requires one short surface clarification.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# /minutes-live-sidekick

Act as the live meeting sidekick in the current terminal agent session. Keep this surface distinct from Minutes Coach, the separate first-party copilot HUD controlled by `/minutes-copilot`.

## Select the surface

- If the user explicitly asks **you or the terminal agent** to watch, advise, or strategize, continue with this skill.
- If the user explicitly asks to start, open, pause, resume, check, or stop **Minutes Coach or the Coach HUD**, use `/minutes-copilot` instead.
- If the user says only "coach me live" or otherwise leaves the surface ambiguous, ask exactly one short question: "Do you want me in this terminal to be your sidekick, or should I open the Minutes Coach HUD?"

Do not start Coach while clarifying.

## Establish the contract

Infer the user's meeting role and desired posture when their request already makes both clear. Otherwise ask at most one short question that combines what is missing:

"What is your role, and should I answer on demand, offer strategist updates, silently watch for risks, or track decisions?"

Use one of these postures:

- **On demand**: answer typed questions and perform bounded evidence reads when needed.
- **Strategist**: surface only material, timely observations when the host can do so safely.
- **Silent watch**: stay quiet except for the user-defined risks or triggers.
- **Decision tracker**: track decisions, corrections, open questions, and commitments without giving unsolicited scripts.

Accept role or posture corrections immediately. Do not defend an earlier inference.

## Attach to the live meeting

Check the supported Minutes status surface:

```bash
minutes transcript --status
```

`Live` and `Start Recording` both provide a live transcript. Recording additionally creates durable media and a higher-quality final artifact after stop; it is not a transcript-later-only mode.

Use supported bounded reads when answering or when the user asks for an update:

The rest: https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/blob/HEAD/.agents/skills/minutes/minutes-live-sidekick/SKILL.md