# Reported issues for minutes Pod holds 14 of 14 GitHub reports that passed its relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. Treat them as evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Back to [minutes](/mcp/minutes). ## 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 ### v0.9.3 Claude Desktop extension ships incomplete yaml package ## Summary The v0.9.3 `.mcpb` extension bundle ships an incomplete `yaml` package in `crates/mcp/node_modules/yaml`. The `schema/yaml-1.1/` directory (including `merge.js`) is missing, causing the MCP server to crash immediately after responding to `initialize`. ## Environment - macOS (Apple Silicon), Claude Desktop - Extension: `ant.dir.gh.silverstein.minutes` v0.9.3 - Node.js 24.14.0 (Claude Desktop's built-in runtime) ## Symptoms In Claude Desktop logs, the server starts, receives… [Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/141) · 2026-04-16 · closed · external user · 3 comments ### get_meeting tool fails — ${HOME} not expanded in path validation When calling the get_meeting tool via the Claude MCP connector, it returns an access denied error even when the path is valid: `Could not read: Access denied: path must be within /${HOME}/meetings` The list_meetings tool correctly returns file paths like: `/Users/ramgopal/meetings/2026-03-28-meeting-title.md` But when that exact path is passed to get_meeting, the connector rejects it because it's comparing against the literal string ${HOME}/meetings instead of expanding it to the actual home… [Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/26) · 2026-03-28 · closed · external user · 3 comments ### In-app Recall / AI Assistant + live Context/Recall (Slice C) — deferred from the trust landing ## Context The conversation-trust privacy landing (Slice A + B) ships sealed audio, restricted-meeting policy, egress controls, audit, and PARA. The **in-app Recall / AI Assistant** — the native chat panel *and* the developer/terminal "Discuss with AI" Recall — is **deferred** (Slice C's live Context/Recall orchestration) and ships **fail-closed / temporarily unavailable** in this landing. ## What still works (not deferred) The **MCP path stays fully functional and policy-enforced**: Claude… [Read the thread](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues/514) · 2026-07-21 · open · 2 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 The remaining reports are on [the project's issue tracker](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/issues).