Minutes

About

Minutes is an open-source, local-first conversation memory tool. It records meetings, calls, voice memos and dictation, transcribes them on-device, and saves them as Markdown files in ~/meetings/. The MCP server lets an assistant search transcripts, read meetings, track commitments, build person profiles, and run live transcription or a real-time copilot.

It runs locally over stdio through the npm package minutes-mcp, started with npx. No account or API key is needed. Restricted meetings are excluded from agent results by default. Meeting text leaves the machine only when you use a cloud assistant or summarizer. The desktop app and CLI are installed separately.

What you can do

• Start and stop audio recording and dictation
• Search and read meeting transcripts and voice memos
• Track open and stale commitments by person
• Build person profiles and relationship maps from meetings
• Query decisions and questions extracted from meetings
• Read live transcripts during a meeting
• Run a real-time copilot and read its nudges
• Update a local knowledge base from meetings

Tools 34

• start_recording

  Start recording audio from the default input device

• stop_recording

  Stop the current recording and process it

• get_status

  Check if a recording is in progress

• list_processing_jobs

  List background processing jobs for recent recordings

• list_meetings

  List recent meetings and voice memos, excluding restricted items by default

• search_meetings

  Search meeting transcripts and voice memos, excluding restricted items by default

• get_meeting

  Get a meeting transcript; restricted meetings return a content-free stub

• activity_summary

  Summarize desktop context bound to one meeting

• search_context

  Search desktop-context events bound to one meeting

• get_moment

  Show the local desktop-context rewind for one meeting

• get_screen_context

  Retrieve bounded, verified screenshots for one meeting

• process_audio

  Process bounded WAV audio from the inbox or Downloads on macOS and Linux

From the package’s own manifest, not a live connection, on 7 Oct 2026.

Example prompts

• What did we decide about monthly billing, and did it stick?

• Search my meetings for the pricing discussion last week

• List open commitments assigned to Alex

• Start recording this meeting and add a note about the budget

Set up

Every client starts Minutes on your machine with the same command. Pick yours; the page remembers your choice.

claude mcp add --transport stdio minutes -- npx -y minutes-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "minutes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "minutes-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "minutes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "minutes-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

code --add-mcp '{"name":"minutes","type":"stdio","command":"npx","args":["-y","minutes-mcp"]}'

{
  "servers": {
    "minutes": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "minutes-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "minutes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "minutes-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

codex mcp add minutes -- npx -y minutes-mcp

[mcp_servers.minutes]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "minutes-mcp"]

gemini mcp add minutes npx -- -y minutes-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "minutes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "minutes-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Embed

Show Minutes in a README or on your site. Each embed links to this page, uses the server’s own install command, and sets no cookies. How embeds work

The card, the iframe and the JSON are in English. Add ?lang=it, fr, de or es to their address for another language.

README badge Website card iframe JSON AI prompt

README badge

Markdown

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HTML

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It follows the reader’s light or dark mode. Add ?theme=light or ?theme=dark to fix it, or ?style=compact to show the mark without the word.

Website card

HTML

<script src="https://mcp.tc/w/minutes.js" async></script>

The card appears where the tag is. Add data-theme="dark" or data-size="compact" to the tag to change it. The file holds everything it needs, so it makes no other requests and sets no cookies.

iframe

HTML

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Use it on pages that don’t allow scripts. Add ?theme=light or ?theme=dark to the address to fix the colors.

JSON

The listing as data for your own pages and tools: name, tagline, install command, tools and the “Add to” links. Any site can read it (CORS is open).

https://mcp.tc/i/minutes.json

What each field means

AI prompt

Paste this into an AI coding assistant, such as Claude Code or Cursor, and it adds the Minutes card to your site.

Markdown

Add the mcp.tc card for Minutes, an MCP server, to my website. It is one static script: no build step, no package to install, no cookies.

Put this tag where the card should appear. The card renders right before it:

```html
<script src="https://mcp.tc/w/minutes.js" async></script>
```

To show the card somewhere else, put this placeholder there and load the same script once, for example before `</body>`. Keep the link inside: visitors without JavaScript see it.

```html
<div data-mcptc="minutes"><a href="https://mcp.tc/i/minutes">Minutes on mcp.tc</a></div>
```

Options:
- `data-theme="light"` or `"dark"` on the tag or the placeholder fixes the colors. Without it, the card follows the visitor’s light or dark mode.
- `data-size="compact"` gives a smaller card without the tagline.
- The CSS variable `--mcptc-max-width` on the placeholder or a parent sets the width (default `520px`).
- `?lang=` on the script URL sets the card’s language: `en`, `it`, `fr`, `de` or `es`.

If the site has a Content Security Policy, allow `script-src https://mcp.tc` and `img-src data:` (the icon is inline).

For a README or other Markdown docs, use the badge instead:

```markdown
[![Minutes on mcp.tc](https://mcp.tc/i/minutes/badge.svg)](https://mcp.tc/i/minutes)
```

Reference: https://mcp.tc/embed

Change history

We read the tool list in this server’s bundle manifest on GitHub every 3 hours and record what changes. Last read 8 Oct 2026, 07:23 UTC.

1. 7 Oct 2026, 16:27 UTC, Automatic check

   New version 0.28.1 (was 0.28.0). Read from npm.

2. 7 Oct 2026, 04:20 UTC, Automatic check

   Tracking started: 34 tools.

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