## TL;DR
Extract next steps from the closing segment of the call explicitly and add a required next steps field that the email generator must fill or flag as none agreed, because the follow-up email was built from the summary body and the agreed next steps, stated at the end of the call, never made it into either. Start with the final ten minutes of the transcript and the follow-up email draft, work on one affected call, record, or run first, and prove the fix there before running the full set. Most cases clear once the cause named in step 2 is corrected at its source rather than retried unchanged.

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how to fix call recap error next steps missing from follow-up email fails
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## Use this when
- You see this exact message or symptom: how to fix call recap error next steps missing from follow-up email fails
- One run, record, call, or object is affected and you can name it
- A retry without changing anything reproduces the same result

## Not for this skill when
- The system fails with a different message and none of the signals here appear
- Nothing has failed yet and you are doing first time setup or general planning
- Every service from this vendor is down for all users, which is a vendor outage to wait out first

## Steps
1. Reproduce the failure once using the final ten minutes of the transcript and the follow-up email draft, and record the time, the workspace or account, and the one item it names. Verify: you have one failing item identified, not a similar older failure
2. Inspect action language in the last ten minutes, the summary action items section, and the email draft contents. Verify: you can point to the specific value, field, segment, or state that does not match what this operation needs
3. Apply the fix at that source: Extract next steps from the closing segment of the call explicitly and add a required next steps field that the email generator must fill or flag as none agreed, because the follow-up email was built from the summary body and the agreed next steps, stated at the end of the call, never made it into either. Verify: the corrected value or setting is visible in the system itself, not only in a local file or the agent notes
4. Re-run the original operation on the single affected item first. Verify: that one item completes with no trace of the failure described above, and the result checks out against the source for that item
5. Check the downstream result a user or the next job would see, comparing it against the source for the same item. Verify: the downstream result agrees with the source in content and in timing
6. Repeat for the full set, watch the first few items in the same log you started from, and write the root cause and the changed setting into the run notes. Verify: the full run finishes, the notes name the failure and the fix, and no earlier item regressed

## Variant phrasings
### how to fix call recap error next steps missing from follow-up email fails
The subject-first phrasing of the same failure. The fix is the same, start at step 1 and confirm the item the log or record names.
### Tool-first phrasing of this failure
The phrasing searchers use once they know which system raised it. It is the same underlying problem, not a separate bug.
### Why does this keep happening after a retry
The repeat-occurrence phrasing. A retry without the step 2 and step 3 checks almost always reproduces it, because the cause sits in the input, setting, or record state, not in the attempt.

Compatibility: Follow-up email generation from Gong, Avoma, Outreach and custom summarizers.

## Why it happens
Calls end with logistics: dates, owners, introductions promised. A summary weighted to the middle of the call underweights the close, and an email generated from that summary inherits the hole.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_t547lyrzOnvH2SjNC5CdLw