Using Glean for Personal Productivity

This skill drives queries about the user's own work life — their recent activity, what they accomplished, what's pending, what's urgent. It pulls from user_activity, meeting_lookup, search (with from:me / owner:me), and read_memory to assemble a personal view rather than an enterprise-wide one.

Two shapes of question

Most personal-productivity asks fall into two shapes:

• Activity / accomplishments — "what did I work on?", "summarize my week", "what shipped?". See reference/activity.md.
• Priorities / blockers — "what's urgent?", "what needs my attention?", "what's waiting on me?". See reference/priorities.md.

The two overlap (a recent activity feed is the substrate for triaging priorities), but the output the user wants is different: activity is retrospective, priorities are prospective.

Tool reference lives in glean-core

user_activity, read_memory, search, and meeting_lookup are documented canonically in the using-glean skill (in the glean-core plugin):

• reference/user-activity.md — date-range mechanics, the inclusive/exclusive end-date pitfall
• reference/memory.md — read_memory + memory_schema for personalization
• reference/search.md — for documents the user authored or was mentioned in
• reference/meeting-lookup.md — for meetings the user attended

This skill carries the workflow on top.

Cross-cutting rules

1. Quality over volume. A status update of 5 real accomplishments beats a list of 20 trivial activities. Filter aggressively per reference/activity.md.
2. Distinguish "did" from "viewed". user_activity returns both. Surface creates / edits / decisions; demote pure views.
3. Cite sources. Every claim should link back to a doc, meeting, or commit so the user can verify and dig deeper.
4. Personalize via memory. When framing a summary, read_memory (especially RolesAndResponsibilities and ActiveProjects) tells you what themes the user thinks they work on. Group by those themes when possible.
5. Apply vetting. Even self-activity should be filtered. See using-glean/reference/vetting.md.

Related commands

• /glean-productivity:my-week — full weekly summary with analysis
• /glean-productivity:daily-briefing — what happened in the last 24 hours