
Weekly Prep Brief
OfficialFreeStreamline your weekly meeting preparations with ease.
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What Weekly Prep Brief does
The Weekly Prep Brief skill is designed to help professionals efficiently prepare for their external meetings over the course of the coming week. By generating a comprehensive briefing that includes vital details about each meeting, this skill ensures that users are well-informed and ready to engage with clients or prospects. It operates by fetching data from a connected calendar or by accepting user input, making it adaptable to various workflows.
The skill begins by identifying all external meetings scheduled for the next seven days. If a calendar is connected, it filters out internal meetings and focuses solely on those involving external participants. This allows users to confirm their meeting list before proceeding with the research phase. For those without a connected calendar, the skill prompts users to manually input their upcoming calls, ensuring that no important meetings are overlooked.
Once the meetings are confirmed, the skill conducts thorough research on each account and contact using data from Common Room. This includes gathering relevant news and recent activities that could impact the discussions. The output is a structured document that not only summarizes the key points for each meeting but also highlights urgent signals and recommended objectives, making it easy for users to prioritize their preparation.
This skill is particularly useful for sales representatives, account managers, or anyone involved in client-facing roles who need to stay organized and informed. By synthesizing all necessary information into a single briefing, it saves time and enhances the quality of interactions with external stakeholders.
When to use it
Use this skill when you have several external meetings scheduled for the week and need to prepare efficiently with relevant insights.
When not to use it
This skill may not be suitable for situations where meetings are highly dynamic or frequently change, as it relies on confirmed meeting data to generate briefings.
What you can build with it
Sales Team Weekly Prep
A sales team uses the skill to gather insights for their upcoming client meetings, ensuring they are well-prepared for discussions.
Account Management
An account manager leverages the skill to compile important information on external stakeholders before a series of renewal meetings.
Client-Facing Roles
Professionals in client-facing roles utilize the skill to streamline their weekly preparations, enhancing their effectiveness in meetings.
How to install Weekly Prep Brief
View source1. Install with the skills CLI
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/weekly-prep-brief --agent claude-code2. Or install it manually
Download the skill folder and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects, or .claude/skills/ to scope it to one repo. Restart Claude Code so it picks up the new skill.
Anthropic's agentic coding CLI, and the reference implementation of Agent Skills. Drop a skill folder into ~/.claude/skills and Claude Code loads it automatically whenever a task matches the skill's description. Claude Code docs
Inside SKILL.md
Written by anthropicsWeekly Prep Brief
Generate a single comprehensive weekly briefing that covers every external customer or prospect call in the next 7 days, with per-meeting account and contact research from Common Room.
Briefing Process
Step 1: Get the Week's External Meetings
Option A — Calendar connected:
Use the ~~calendar connector to fetch all meetings scheduled in the next 7 days (or a user-specified range). Filter to keep only external meetings — those with attendees from outside your organization. Discard internal-only meetings, one-on-ones with colleagues, and recurring internal syncs.
Identify for each external meeting:
- Company name
- Meeting date and time
- External attendee names and email addresses
Option B — No calendar connected: Ask the user: "To build your weekly prep brief, I'll need your upcoming external calls. Please list them: company name, date/time, and attendee names."
Accept freeform input and parse it into a structured list before proceeding.
Step 2: Confirm the Meeting List
Present the identified meetings to the user for confirmation before beginning research:
"Here are the external calls I found for this week. Let me know if anything's missing or should be excluded:
- [Company] — [Day], [Time] — [Attendees]
- ..."
This prevents wasted research on cancelled or incorrect meetings.
Step 3: Research Each Meeting
For each confirmed external meeting, run in parallel where possible:
- Account research — full account snapshot using the account-research skill
- Contact research — profile for each external attendee using the contact-research skill
Common Room data is the primary source. After CR research, run a quick recency check for each company — this is supplementary, not primary:
- Search
"[company name]" newsscoped to the last 7 days - For executive attendees, search their name for recent public posts or interviews
- Only include findings that are genuinely noteworthy (funding, leadership changes, major press). Don't pad the brief with generic news.
Depth calibration:
- For high-priority accounts (large accounts, open opportunities, renewal risk), produce full depth research
- For lower-priority or short meetings, produce abbreviated snapshots (3–4 bullets each)
Step 4: Synthesize the Weekly Brief
Compile all per-meeting research into a single structured document, sorted by meeting date/time.
Open with a brief week-level overview that flags:
- Any accounts with urgent signals (at-risk, trial expiring, expansion opportunity)
- Any meetings that need special preparation or executive involvement
- Total external call count and estimated time commitment
Output Format
# Weekly Prep Brief — Week of [Date]
## Week Overview
[2–4 bullets: key themes, flagged priorities, call count]
---
## [Monday / Tuesday / etc.]
### [Company Name] — [Time]
**Attendees:** [Names and titles]
**Meeting type:** [Discovery / QBR / Renewal / Expansion / etc. — inferred if possible]
**Company Snapshot**
[4–5 bullets: account status, top signals, recent activity]
**Attendee Profiles**
- **[Name]** ([Title]): [2–3 bullets on their signals, persona, conversation angle]
- [Repeat per attendee]
**Top Signals This Week**
[2–3 most relevant signals for this specific call]
**This Week's News** [If notable news found]
[Only genuinely noteworthy findings — funding, leadership changes, major press]
**Recommended Objectives**
[1–2 sentences: what to accomplish in this meeting]
---
[Repeat per meeting, sorted by date/time]
When a Meeting Has Sparse Data
If Common Room returns limited data for a particular meeting's account or attendees, use a compressed format for that meeting instead of the full template:
### [Company Name] — [Time] ⚠️ Limited Data
**Attendees:** [Names and titles if known]
**Data available:** [What Common Room actually returned]
**Web Search Results**
[Findings from web search — company news, attendee LinkedIn profiles]
**Note:** Common Room has limited data on this account. The rep may want to check directly in CR or gather context from colleagues before this call.
Do not generate a full meeting prep section (company snapshot, signal highlights, talking points, recommended objectives) from sparse data. A short honest section is more useful than a fabricated full one.
Quality Standards
- Keep each meeting section scannable — reps read these in the morning, often on mobile
- Always sort by date/time ascending
- Flag urgent situations prominently (risk, trial expiration, open opps) — don't bury them
- If a meeting has very thin Common Room data, use the sparse-data format above — never fill the full template with guesses
- Total brief should be readable in 10–15 minutes for a week with 4–6 meetings
- Every fact must come from a tool call — no invented deal context, activity, or signals
Reference Files
references/briefing-guide.md— guidelines for structuring briefings, prioritization logic, and how to handle edge cases (cancelled meetings, new accounts with no data, etc.)
Frequently asked questions about Weekly Prep Brief
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