Meetings and Daily Briefing Skills

Meetings and Daily Briefing Skills

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Introduction

The Meetings skill handles preparation, summary, and action-item extraction. The Daily Briefing skill assembles a single morning view of what matters across email, calendar, and Teams. Together, they are the “start your day with intent” pair.

Prep, Recap, and the Morning Brief

Meetings skill — what it does.

• Builds a meeting brief: attendees’ background, recent interactions, related files, and open action items.
• Summarises a meeting after it ends, with key points, decisions, and assigned actions.
• Extracts action items with owners and dates from transcripts and notes.
• Cross-references prior meetings on the same topic.

Working prep prompt.

“Prepare me for Monday’s quarterly review with the CISO. Pull her last month of meetings with my team, the open action items from those meeting notes in Teams, and any status updates sent via email. Produce a one-page briefing I can share 24 hours in advance.”

Working recap prompt.

“Summarise yesterday’s project sync. Extract action items with owners and dates, draft a recap email to attendees, and create follow-up tasks in Planner.”

Each external action — recap email, Planner task creation — triggers an approval.

Daily Briefing skill — what it does.

• Aggregates calendar, email, and Teams into a prioritized daily overview.
• Highlights what needs decisions today, what is overdue, and what is delegated.
• Recommends specific actions (accept this, decline that, prep this meeting).

Working briefing prompt.

“Give me my morning briefing. Top 3 things to handle by noon, top risks for the rest of the week, and anything stuck waiting on me. Save it as a Markdown note in my OneDrive /Documents/Briefings/ folder.”

Recurring scheduled prompt. Daily Briefing is the canonical use case for scheduled prompts. Set it up by saying so:

“Every weekday at 7:00 AM, run my morning briefing and save it to /Documents/Briefings/.”

Manage scheduled prompts in Tasks → Scheduled (the tab appears once at least one is configured). You can edit, pause, resume, or delete from there.

Realistic example. A monthly budget review delegated to Cowork: pull budget figures from a Finance SharePoint site, compare to actuals in last month’s Excel file, identify variances over 10%, and draft a summary deck for the Thursday CFO review. A workflow that previously took three hours runs in the background; the user inspects, refines two slides, and sends.

Privacy. Meetings respects the same boundaries as Outlook — anything marked private is not surfaced.

Takeaway

Daily Briefing is the easiest scheduled prompt to set up and the one with the largest compounding return. Set it once, refine the format over a week, and your mornings change.

Sources

• Cowork common questions (Frontier)
• Cowork deep-dive (attached source) — Microsoft Copilot Cowork architectural reference