# Minutes MCP server > Record, transcribe and search meetings and voice memos stored as local Markdown, from any MCP client. - Listing: https://mcp.tc/i/minutes - Connect: this is a local (stdio) server; install it on your machine (see Install). The listing link is a page, not an MCP endpoint. - Type: local (stdio) - Auth: no API key needed - Category: [Communication & Meetings](https://mcp.tc/c/communication) - Vendor: Mat Silverstein - Homepage: - Docs: - Repository: - Package: npm `minutes-mcp` ## 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 it 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 - `add_note`: Add a timestamped note to the active recording - `consistency_report`: Flag conflicting decisions and stale commitments - `get_person_profile`: Build a profile of a person from policy-authorized meetings - `research_topic`: Research a topic across policy-authorized meetings - `start_dictation`: Start dictation mode, speech to clipboard and daily notes - `stop_dictation`: Stop dictation mode - `track_commitments`: List open and stale commitments, optionally filtered by person - `relationship_map`: Rank relationships from a policy-safe graph projection - `list_voices`: List enrolled voice profiles for speaker identification - `confirm_speaker`: Unavailable to agents; speaker changes use the app or CLI - `get_meeting_insights`: Query decisions, commitments and questions extracted from meetings - `start_live_transcript`: Start a live transcript session for real-time transcription - `read_live_transcript`: Read utterances from the active live transcript by cursor or time window - `start_copilot`: Start the real-time copilot for a goal and observe its nudges - `stop_copilot`: Stop the active copilot without affecting recording - `copilot_status`: Read current copilot session and provider health - `read_copilot_nudges`: Read copilot nudges incrementally by cursor or time window - `ingest_meeting`: Extract facts from a meeting and update the knowledge base - `resummarize_meeting`: Re-run the AI summary on an edited meeting, previewing by default - `knowledge_status`: Show knowledge base configuration, adapter, people count and log entries - `add_agent_annotation`: Append attributed agent commentary as an annotation event, allowlist-gated - `get_agent_annotations`: Unavailable compatibility name for reading agent annotations ## 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" ## Install ### Claude Code 1. Run this in a terminal, in your project folder: ```bash claude mcp add --transport stdio minutes -- npx -y minutes-mcp ``` 2. Start Claude Code and type `/mcp`. **minutes** should show as connected. Add `--scope user` to make it available in every project. ### Claude Desktop 1. Open **Settings → Developer → Edit Config**. It opens `claude_desktop_config.json`. Add: `claude_desktop_config.json`: ```json { "mcpServers": { "minutes": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "minutes-mcp" ] } } } ``` 2. Save the file and restart Claude Desktop. Needs Node.js on your computer. The file lives in `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/` on macOS and `%APPDATA%\Claude\` on Windows. ### Cursor [Add to Cursor]() (opens Cursor) Or add it by hand to `~/.cursor/mcp.json` (all projects) or `.cursor/mcp.json` (this project): `mcp.json`: ```json { "mcpServers": { "minutes": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "minutes-mcp" ] } } } ``` Needs Node.js on your computer. ### VS Code [Install in VS Code]() (opens VS Code) Or from a terminal: ```bash code --add-mcp '{"name":"minutes","type":"stdio","command":"npx","args":["-y","minutes-mcp"]}' ``` Or commit it to the repo in `.vscode/mcp.json`: `.vscode/mcp.json`: ```json { "servers": { "minutes": { "type": "stdio", "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "minutes-mcp" ] } } } ``` Needs Node.js on your computer. ### Devin Desktop 1. Add it to `~/.config/devin/mcp_config.json` (macOS and Linux) or `%APPDATA%\devin\mcp_config.json` (Windows): `mcp_config.json`: ```json { "mcpServers": { "minutes": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "minutes-mcp" ] } } } ``` 2. Refresh the MCP server list in Cascade. Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf. ### Codex ```bash codex mcp add minutes -- npx -y minutes-mcp ``` Or edit `~/.codex/config.toml` directly: `config.toml`: ```toml [mcp_servers.minutes] command = "npx" args = ["-y", "minutes-mcp"] ``` Needs Node.js on your computer. ### Gemini CLI ```bash gemini mcp add minutes npx -- -y minutes-mcp ``` This adds it to the current project. Add `-s user` to use it everywhere. ### Any client Most clients that start local servers accept this shape: ```json { "mcpServers": { "minutes": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "minutes-mcp" ] } } } ``` Zed puts servers under `context_servers` in its settings, with the same `command`, `args` and `env` fields. Needs Node.js on your computer. ## Recent changes - 2026-10-07 16:27 UTC: New version 0.28.1 (was 0.28.0), read from npm. Source: automatic check. - 2026-10-07 04:20 UTC: Tracking started: 34 tools read. Source: automatic check. More on the History tab, with descriptions before and after for the newest entries: https://mcp.tc/i/minutes#history (Atom feed: https://mcp.tc/i/minutes/history.xml). It records what mcp.tc's anonymous checks saw, every 3 hours where the tool list can be read without sign-in; it is not a security review. ## Details - Server version: 0.28.1 - Last checked: 2026-10-07 - Listed: 2026-10-07 - Updated: 2026-10-07 --- Source: https://mcp.tc/i/minutes (mcp.tc is an independent directory, not affiliated with this server's publisher). Corrections: https://mcp.tc/report