Meeting Context via Glean

When users need information from meetings - past discussions, decisions, action items, or transcripts - use Glean's meeting lookup.

Tool Naming

See the glean-tools-guide skill for Glean MCP tool naming conventions. Tools follow the pattern mcp__glean_[server-name]__[tool] where the server name is dynamic. Use whatever Glean server is available in your tool list.

When This Applies

Use this approach when users ask:

• "What was decided in the [topic] meeting?"

• "What action items came out of [meeting]?"

• "When did we discuss [topic]?"

• "What meetings did I miss [time period]?"

• "Who attended [meeting]?"

• "What was said about [topic] in recent meetings?"

Primary Tool

Use the Glean meeting_lookup tool with natural language queries.

Query Syntax

Important: meeting_lookup works best with natural language queries. Date filter syntax does NOT work reliably.

By topic and time (natural language)

meeting_lookup "quarterly planning last week"

With specific participants

meeting_lookup "standup with John Smith" meeting_lookup "participants:"John Smith" topic:"standup""

Get transcript content

meeting_lookup "team sync last week extract_transcript:"true""

Today's meetings

meeting_lookup "my meetings today"

Past week

meeting_lookup "meetings past week"

Date Filtering

Use natural language for dates:

• "last week", "past 2 weeks", "yesterday", "today", "tomorrow"

• "meetings since Monday", "standups this month"

Inline date filters do NOT work reliably:

• after:now-1w

• Date math is ignored

• after:YYYY-MM-DD

• ISO dates return no results

• after:yesterday

• Simple keywords don't work as filter values

Filters that do work:

• participants:"name"

• Filter by attendees

• topic:"subject"

• Filter by meeting topic

• extract_transcript:"true"

• Include transcript content

When to Extract Transcripts

Add extract_transcript:"true" when you need:

• Specific quotes or statements

• Detailed discussion content

• Action item context

• Decision rationale

Skip transcripts for:

• Just listing meetings

• Checking attendees

• Quick time/date lookup

What to Extract from Meetings

When analyzing meeting content, focus on:

• Decisions made - What was agreed? By whom?

• Action items - Tasks assigned, owners, deadlines

• Open questions - Unresolved items

• Key discussion points - Important debates or context

Relationship to Commands

For comprehensive meeting workflows, suggest:

• /glean-meetings:meeting-prep <meeting>

• Prepare for an upcoming meeting

• /glean-meetings:catch-up <period>

• Catch up on missed meetings and more