Prepare for an upcoming meeting — surface context from past meetings, related docs, and attendee information. Trigger phrases include "prep for my meeting", "context for the meeting", "what should I know before", "1:1 prep with", "prepare for [name]", "background on this meeting", "agenda context", "talking points…
Get up to speed on a new team, project, or area — surface key people, foundational docs, current priorities, and recent activity. Trigger phrases include "onboard me on", "get me up to speed on", "intro to [team / area / project]", "I'm new to", "help me understand [team]", "where do I start with", "ramp up on"…
Research enterprise context before plan mode — surface design docs, similar implementations, stakeholders, and related systems before architecting or designing a feature.
Quick project context — surface a project's status, owner, recent activity, and key links. Use when the user wants a fast situational read on a project (trigger phrases include what's the status of, who owns, what's happening with, where does the project stand) rather than a deep handoff document.
Generate a comprehensive handoff document so someone new can take over a project — current state, key people, essential knowledge, open items, and a first-30-days plan. Use when the user is handing off a project (trigger phrases include "generate a handoff", "hand off this project", "create a handoff doc", "I'm going…
Search Glean enterprise knowledge - use for find the doc about, search for, where is, look up, search company knowledge, search Glean for; returns vetted results with freshness and authority indicators. For broader enterprise queries needing synthesis across multiple tools, prefer the using-glean skill instead.
Find similar implementations and prior art for a code pattern across internal repositories — use when checking whether something already exists internally before building it, or looking for reference implementations to follow.
Guide the user through authoring a new agent skill — when a skill is worth creating, the SKILL.md format, progressive disclosure, and common pitfalls. Also covers discovering skill opportunities from the user's work patterns and generating a SKILL.md from a description. Trigger phrases include "create a skill", "write…
Identify people who need to approve, consult on, or be informed about a change or project — use when someone asks who needs to know about a change, who should be looped in, who needs to approve, who should be consulted, who is affected, or needs a RACI for a change, refactor, migration, or decision.
Search and analyze internal source code across the organization's repositories — use when asked how something is implemented, where the code for a system lives, who has been working on a codebase, or to find similar patterns across teams. Trigger phrases include how is X implemented, where is the code for, find the…
Synthesize the user's own work activity, priorities, and recent context using Glean — use when the user asks about their recent work, what they accomplished, what is urgent, what needs their attention, or wants help with status updates, 1:1 prep, or weekly summaries. Trigger phrases include what have I been working…
Use Glean MCP tools to answer questions about company documents, internal wikis, policies, RFCs, design docs, people, teams, meetings, decisions, action items, email, calendar events, internal code, and the user's own work activity. Reach for this whenever the answer lives in enterprise systems rather than the local…
Verify an RFC or design doc against the actual implementation — find drift, missing pieces, and undocumented changes. Trigger phrases include "verify the RFC", "compare design doc to implementation", "is the spec implemented", "does the code match the design", "what's drifted from the RFC", "audit the doc against"…
PROACTIVELY use this subagent when coding tasks would benefit from enterprise context—debugging, testing, understanding code, or researching features. This agent searches Slack/Jira/GitHub/Confluence/Drive via Glean, then chains read/quote or code lookup for precise, sourced answers.
Configure the gleanwork agent baseline in a library or SDK repo — scaffold AGENTS.md, a CLAUDE.md pointer, and skills/, author the library's SKILL.md, and verify it in CI. Use when onboarding a gleanwork OSS repo to the agent setup, adding AGENTS.md or a skill to a repo, or writing/updating the SKILL.md that teaches a…