Automated content creation and content services for collaboration platforms

A computer-implemented method of providing content items of a collaboration platform, the method comprising:

• cause display of a graphical user interface on a frontend of the collaboration platform on a client device, the graphical user interface including an editor region displaying user-generated content of an electronic document;
• in response to a user selection of a particular command control in the graphical user interface, generating a prompt comprising:
• predefined query prompt text including an action-request instruction set;
• and
• a text-formatted version of the user-generated content of the electronic document, the predefined query prompt text adapted to produce a bulleted list of action items identified from the text-formatted version of the user-generated content, the bulleted list of action items based at least in part on a user role associated with a user of the frontend;
• providing the prompt to an external generative output engine using an application programming interface call over a computer network to the external generative output engine;
• obtaining a generative response from the external generative output engine, the generative response including a bulleted list of action items identified from the user-generated content;
• and
• causing display of the generative response in the graphical user interface in a preview window.

A computer-implemented method of transforming content of a content item of a collaboration platform, the method comprising:

• in response to a user input provided to a frontend of the collaboration platform executing on a client device, identify a first content item managed by the collaboration platform;
• in response to a user selection of a particular command control, generate a prompt comprising:
• predefined query prompt text including an action-request instruction set based at least in part on a user role associated with a user of the frontend;
• and
• text generated using user-generated content of the first content item;
• provide the prompt to an external generative output engine using an application programming interface call over a computer network to the external generative output engine;
• obtain a generative response from the external generative output engine, in response to an occurrence of one or more action items, the generative response includes a bulleted list of action items identified from the user-generated content;
• cause display of the generative response in the graphical user interface;
• and
• in response to a user selection of an input control, cause the generative response to be inserted into a second content item.