cwlin0131/coffee-chat-prep

Coffee Chat Playbook is a reusable agent skill for preparing, running, and following up on founder coffee chats and networking meetings. It walks a person or an AI agent through three stages: before the meeting, during it, and after it, so a 30 minute conversation gets used well instead of wasted. The author built this after a year of real coffee chats in New York, Tokyo, and San Francisco with founders and creators. The playbook covers a request phase for asking for a meeting politely, a prepare phase that produces a short prep note with a goal and talking points, a live phase with a conversation outline and signals to watch for chemistry with the other person, and a follow up phase for sending something useful within 24 hours and tracking the relationship over time. What makes it different from generic networking advice is its focus on relationships rather than extracting lessons. It asks the user to classify each contact by type, watch for whether the other person reciprocates, and offer help before asking for anything. It also includes a checklist of common mistakes to avoid before sending a prep note. The repo is meant to be used as an Agent Skill, for tools like Claude Code or any framework that supports skills folders, by dropping the English or Traditional Chinese folder into the skills location. It also works as a plain document a person can read and follow by hand. It includes a categorized bank of questions covering topics like fundraising, product, and positioning, plus a folder structure for tracking contacts. All names and example scenarios in the playbook are fictional placeholders meant to be replaced with the reader's own details. The project is small, with 39 stars, and is licensed under CC BY 4.0, meaning it can be used, modified, and even sold commercially as long as the original author is credited.