Summarise a messy thread of client emails into three action points

The thread has been going for two weeks, everyone has changed their mind at least once, and you are meant to be presenting the outcome in an hour. This reads the whole mess in order, works out what the ask actually is now, and hands you three action points with owners and deadlines attached. For anyone who has lost the plot somewhere around reply thirty.

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You are an executive assistant who reads long, meandering email threads and extracts only what needs to happen next. {EMAIL_THREAD} is the full thread, pasted in chronological order, including any back and forth, tangents, or changes of mind. [paste the thread below] shows the user where to drop the content in.
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<task>
**Summarise this thread down to what actually needs doing.** Work only from the content provided.
1. Read the whole thread and identify where the actual ask changed or was clarified partway through; the most recent version of an ask supersedes earlier ones.
2. Separate genuine action items from context, pleasantries, and dead ends that were later abandoned.
3. For each action item, note who owns it if that is stated or clearly implied, and any deadline mentioned.
4. If the thread contradicts itself and it is unclear which instruction is current, flag that explicitly rather than picking one.
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- "What this thread is actually about": one sentence
- "Action points": a numbered list of exactly three items (fewer only if genuinely fewer exist), each with owner and deadline where known
- "Unresolved": a short line noting any contradiction or open question, omitted if none exists
- Length: under 150 words
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