# minutes MCP Server

The private, owned conversation-memory layer for AI. Record, transcribe, and search every meeting.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `minutes-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

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

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**14 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 11.

### Most discussed

### Extension MCP server still captures silence (v0.9.4)

## Summary

The v0.9.4 fix for #65 (removing `detached: true` / `setsid()`) resolved the silence bug when running `minutes-mcp` as a standalone process, but the **Claude Desktop extension** (`local.mcpb.mat-silverstein.minutes`) still captures pure silence.

## Environment

- macOS, Claude Desktop (latest)
- Minutes CLI: v0.9.4 (Homebrew)
- Extension manifest: v0.9.4
- Node.js: v25.9.0 (Claude Desktop's built-in runtime)

## Reproduction

1. Install Minutes via Claude Desktop extension…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/84) · 2026-04-06 · closed · external user · 8 comments

### MCP tools blocked with "readiness could not be verified safely" — qmd cleanup fails because qmd is unavailable and persistence is disabled anyway

**Environment**

Minutes desktop app: v0.25.1
Minutes CLI: v0.25.1 (symlinked to the app-bundled binary at /Applications/Minutes.app/Contents/MacOS/minutes)
macOS, Apple Silicon (M-series MacBook Air)
Claude Desktop, connected via the minutes-mcp MCP server

**What happened**

Almost every MCP tool call (list_meetings, search_meetings, get_meeting_insights, track_commitments, list_processing_jobs, etc.) fails with:

Run `minutes qmd cleanup`, repair or reinstall qmd if requested, then restart…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/788) · 2026-08-18 · closed · external user · 7 comments

### minutes-mcp: 15 s corpus-lease budget denies every query on a real corpus, and it cannot be configured

## Summary

On a real corpus (3.8k markdown files on a spinning disk, Windows 11, minutes 0.25.6) every content tool of `minutes-mcp` is denied with `Access denied: stable meeting corpus authorization failed`, because `DEFAULT_AUTHORIZATION_TIMEOUT_MS = 15_000` in `crates/mcp/src/corpus-lease.ts` is smaller than the time the CLI itself needs. The cap is deliberately not overridable in production (`resolveAuthorizationTimeoutMs` only honours `MINUTES_CORPUS_AUTH_TIMEOUT_MS` under `NODE_ENV=test`…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/933) · 2026-09-04 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### minutes-mcp 0.25.3: startup auto-setup silently resets the configured transcription model to "tiny" on every server spawn

### Environment

- Minutes 0.25.3 (desktop app + Homebrew CLI + minutes-mcp npm, all 0.25.3), macOS 26 (Apple Silicon)
- `[transcription] model = "medium"` configured in `~/.config/minutes/config.toml`, `ggml-medium.bin` downloaded and healthy

### Symptom

Since updating to 0.25.3, `[transcription] model` in `config.toml` keeps reverting from `"medium"` to `"tiny"` many times per day, with no Settings interaction. Meetings silently transcribe on tiny (mangled numbers, destroyed participant…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/868) · 2026-08-27 · closed · outside contributor · 4 comments

### process_audio hangs / times out unconditionally on Windows - independent of audio duration, no error, no log trace

Summary

On Windows, every call to the MCP tool process_audio fails with a request timeout (MCP error -32001: Request timed out), regardless of the input audio file's duration. The failure is identical whether the file is 41 minutes or 10 seconds long, which rules out a duration-based timeout. No error, job record, or diagnostic trace of any kind is produced anywhere in Minutes' own state.

Environment

OS: Windows 11
Install: Claude Desktop MCP extension (ant.dir.gh.silverstein.minutes),…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/415) · 2026-07-06 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Most recent

### # Minutes — four defects found on a clean Windows 11 install (v0.25.1 / v0.25.2)

# Minutes — four defects found on a clean Windows 11 install (v0.25.1 / v0.25.2)

**Reporter environment**

| | |
|---|---|
| OS | Windows 11 x64 |
| CPU | Intel Core Ultra 7 255H (Arrow Lake-H, 16 cores) — **no AVX-512** |
| Host | Claude Desktop 1.34493.1 (Electron 42.9.2, Node 24.18.1) |
| Extension | `ant.dir.gh.silverstein.minutes` manifest v0.25.1 |
| Engine | tested against both v0.25.1 and v0.25.2 prebuilt `minutes-windows-x64` |
| Install state | fresh — no prior meetings, no…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/818) · 2026-08-23 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Claude Desktop widget: "tool _Meeting_Memory_for_AI__list_meetings not found" — em dash in display name breaks tool-name resolution

**Environment:** Claude Desktop / Cowork on Windows 11, Minutes installed as a Desktop Extension (.mcpb). Observed 2026-07-14.

**Symptom:** Opening the Minutes dashboard widget shows a toast: `tool _Meeting_Memory_for_AI__list_meetings not found`. The MCP tools themselves are fine — calling `mcp__Minutes___Meeting_Memory_for_AI__list_meetings` from chat returns normally (`{"meetings":[],"actions":[],"view":"dashboard"}`).

**Likely cause (inferred from the error shape, not traced in code):**…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/458) · 2026-07-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### MCP `get_meeting` returns envelope-only on Tauri-bundled native-call recordings (v0.17.3, v0.18.0)

## Summary

The `get_meeting` MCP tool returns an envelope without the transcript body, summary, decisions, action items, or commitments — only `path`, `view`, `speaker_map`, and `overlay_applied`. Reproduced on both **v0.17.3** (sideloaded `.mcpb`) and **v0.18.0** (Anthropic directory Connector "Minutes — Meeting Memory for AI") against the same Tauri-bundled native-call meeting recording.

## Environment

- Minutes app: v0.18.2 (Homebrew cask, `silverstein/tap`)
- Minutes CLI: v0.18.2…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/255) · 2026-05-25 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Windows .mcpb: missing `yaml/dist/schema/` directory causes MCP server to crash on startup

## Summary

On a fresh Windows install of the Minutes extension (v0.10.0 manifest, v0.13.3 release) via Claude Code's Settings → Extensions → Install, the MCP server fails to start because the bundled `yaml` npm package is incomplete — the entire `dist/schema/` subtree is missing from `node_modules/yaml/`.

Claude Code reports:

> MCP Minutes — Meeting Memory for AI: Server disconnected.
> Could not attach to MCP server Minutes — Meeting Memory for AI

## Environment

- OS: Windows 11 (build…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/167) · 2026-04-22 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### server doesn't handle the MCP protocol version (2025-11-25) that the current Claude Desktop ships with - handshake issue

[mcp-server-Minutes — Meeting Memory for AI.log](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/26845934/mcp-server-Minutes.Meeting.Memory.for.AI.log)

Claude Version 1.3109.0 (35cbf6) and installed the minutes extension.  minutes-mcp@0.13.0

The key lines from the log: server starts, receives initialize with protocolVersion: "2025-11-25", crashes ~160ms later
The fact that npx minutes-mcp runs fine manually — confirming it's the handshake, not the installation.

Seemingly, minutes hasn't kept pace…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/149) · 2026-04-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### MCP-spawned recordings capture silence (-91 dB); same binary works from Terminal

## Summary

`minutes record` spawned by the MCP server captures pure silence (-91 dB). The exact same binary run directly from Terminal captures audio perfectly (peak level 1). This has been broken since March 31 on my setup.

## Reproducible A/B test (April 2, 2026)

Same machine, same mic permissions, same binary, ~10 minutes apart:

| How started | Audio level | Words | Job ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal: `minutes record` | peak **1** (max) | **58** | job-20260402102929978 |
| MCP:…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/65) · 2026-04-02 · closed · external user · 2 comments

[See all 14 reports Pod holds for minutes](/mcp/minutes/issues).

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