Glean

Catch up on what you missed while away — meetings, decisions, action items, mentions, and important threads from a defined time window. Trigger phrases include "what did I miss", "catch me up", "I was out", "I'm back from PTO", "summarize while I was away", "what happened last we

Identify who owns, maintains, or has expertise in a specific code area — use when asked who to talk to about a system, who to request a code review from, or who has been actively working in a codebase area.

Gather architectural context about an internal system from code and documentation across the organization — use when asked to understand a system's architecture, find its repos, or get an overview before working on it.

Find usage examples of an API, library, or code pattern across internal repositories — use when looking for how other teams use an internal API, library, or pattern before implementing something new.

Find subject matter experts on a topic, technology, or internal system by combining real expertise signals (code contributions, document authorship, and meeting or discussion activity) rather than relying on job titles. Use this whenever the user wants to know who to ask about so

Discover and run Glean skills for enterprise app tasks

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"

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]", "wher

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

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 projec

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, prefe

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 p

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, mig

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 ent

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 implemen

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 phra

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 fro