Summarize a long thread

A Slack or email chain in three sentences. Plus what’s unresolved.

For

Anyone

Time per use

1 min

Format

.md and .skill

How to use it

1.
Open Claude or ChatGPT.
Either works. The skill is just text.
2.
Copy this skill from the free shelf.
One click; no install, no setup.
3.
Paste it as your first message.
The assistant now knows how to do this one job.
4.
Give it your specifics, get the result.
Roughly 1 min, every time you need it.

Skill filep08-summarize-a-long-thread.skill.md0.9 KB

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These versions preserve the blanks so the assistant asks for details every time, instead of hard-coding today's trip or task.

# Summarize a long thread

I'll paste a long Slack thread or email chain. Give me three sentences and tell me what's still open.

## What I want back

**1. What this thread is about,** in one sentence.

**2. What was decided** (if anything), in one sentence. If nothing was decided, say "no decision was reached" — don't invent one.

**3. What was said that matters,** in one sentence. The substance, not the meta-conversation.

**Then:**

- **Open questions** — what's unresolved, with who needs to answer it.
- **Action items** — who said they'd do what, by when. Quote the commitment if you can.
- **What's not in this thread but should be** — if the conversation references a decision or person not present, flag it.

## Rules

- Don't recap blow-by-blow. I read summaries, not transcripts.
- Strip the social glue ("great point!", "+1", reactions).
- If someone walks back something they said earlier, note it.

Thread below.

On the house. Run it in Claude or ChatGPT, or install it as agent behavior.

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