Series : Tech news · Part 8 of 8
- 1. Tech news: OpenAI’s Dot arrives — the answer to autonomous agents
- 2. Tech news: Gemini 4 Argon, when the model works longer than you do
- 3. A Canadian AI is getting better at finding information in your documents 🇨🇦
- 4. A Canadian platform for building AI agents at work 🇨🇦
- 5. Grok Bot wants to choose the best AI for you
- 6. Ghost: what if your AI lived at home? 🏠🤖
- 7. Apple HomeView: a new smart display for the home 🏠🍎
- 8. My AI agent joins my meetings
My AI agent joins my meetings
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You only need to provide the meeting link and details—like the access code—and say what you want. The agent takes care of the rest.

I was in a Microsoft Teams meeting.
I pasted the link and the access code into the chat with my assistant. One of my AI agents joined in transcription mode, shown as “(Luc’s Bot) - transcribing”. On request, it left. Shortly after, I got a structured summary in French: topics covered, decisions, open questions, and next steps with owners.
And the striking part? It’s super simple.
You only need to provide the meeting link and details—like the access code—and say what you want. The agent takes care of the rest.
This Meetings feature in Grok Bot, turned on on November 13, 2026, works with Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams.
🍳 It really is that simple
No long setup.
- Paste the meeting link (and useful details, like the access code) into the chat with your agent.
- Tell it what you want: take notes, answer in the chat, leave at a given moment…
- Approve when it asks.
- The host admits the agent into the meeting.
During the call, the agent listens and takes notes. When it ends, it sends you a summary and action items in the chat. You can also ask later for the summary or the transcript.
One clear limit: it does not speak out loud. It listens, takes notes, and answers in writing in the meeting chat.
⚽ A Zoom call for your sports team
Picture this: you’re planning the season with the other volunteers on Zoom.
You give one of your agents the link (and the code, if there is one). You tell it:
“Join, take notes, and at the end give me the decisions and next steps.”
During the meeting, if someone asks it a question in the meeting chat, addressing it by name, it can answer there. If you’d rather it only listen without answering, you can disable interactivity: it keeps taking notes, without answering in the meeting.
At the end, you have the essentials without retyping three pages of notes.
Etiquette: right at the start, tell the others an AI agent is there for transcription. Ask if they’re okay with it. If someone is uncomfortable, have it leave.
🏠 A Teams call for your condo meeting
Same idea, different context: the condo board meeting on Teams.
You can ask the agent to listen and take notes only—without jumping into the chat. Or give it a precise instruction:
“Note the votes and follow-ups. Only answer in the chat if someone addresses you.”
If the meeting is already on your calendar and an agent follows your calendar, it can also join a scheduled meeting on its own. You then manage its upcoming meetings in its details: cancel, quit, or turn off interactivity.
Again: announce its presence. Explain what you’ll do with the transcript. Consent matters as much as the tech.
🤝 You’re meeting a client
You have a Google Meet with a client.
You paste the link, say what you want, and the agent joins in transcription mode. You stay focused on the conversation. After the call, you review the summary and action items—and, if needed, you ask for the transcript again.
Useful so nothing slips. Fragile if you forget etiquette.
Some participants react to a bot showing up, especially because of the label displayed on screen. That isn’t a tech issue: it’s a respect issue.
🤝 Etiquette: before the tech
Before you send an agent into a meeting, do these simple things:
- Announce its presence at the start.
- Ask for consent from the participants.
- Explain what you’ll do with the transcript (personal notes, summary, follow-up).
- Have it leave right away if someone is uncomfortable.
A helpful agent that makes everyone uneasy is not a good tool.
🤝 When you have a team of agents
If you organize several agents by role—one for tasks, one for email and the calendar, and so on—the meeting can feed the rest of your setup.
That’s how I work at home. If the agent in a meeting notices there is a task to do, it passes the info to my agent in charge of tasks, who notes it in Trello. If a date for a follow-up meeting comes up, it goes to my agent that manages email and the calendar: it creates the event on its side and sends me an invitation, which I accept myself. It never writes directly into my calendar.
The key message: the agent in the meeting hands each piece of information to the right teammate, so you don’t have to copy anything yourself.
This is not a built-in Meetings feature. It is simply how you organize your agents around what they hear in the meeting.
📋 In short, what it allows
- Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams
- Listening and note-taking (transcription)
- Written answers in the meeting chat (or notes only, with no interactivity)
- Precise instructions given to the agent before or during
- Summary and action items after the meeting; transcript available on request
- Joining right away (pasted link) or on a schedule (calendar the agent follows)
- With a team of agents: the agent in the meeting hands each piece of info to the right teammate (tasks → Trello; dates → calendar invite to accept), with no retyping — personal organization, not a native Meetings feature
- Limit: no spoken voice
🍳 The simple version
You have a meeting. You only need to provide the meeting link and details—like the access code—and say what you want.
The agent joins, takes notes, can answer in the chat if you allow it, and sends you the essentials afterward.
Simple. Concrete. As long as you’re clear and transparent with the people around the table.