Connect Claude

The Claude connector lets Claude Desktop and Claude Code read your Minutist meetings when you ask. It is free and local: the desktop app serves an MCP endpoint on your machine, and you point your own Claude client at it. There is no hosted relay in the path and no account or subscription required.

Caution

Privacy: what this connection does. Asking Claude to read a meeting sends that meeting’s content (transcript, notes, summary) to Anthropic; your Claude client reads it from the local endpoint and carries it to the provider. That is the point of it, and it is not private. The connector channel is distinct from sync, which is end-to-end encrypted. See where your data goes for the full breakdown.

Note

Because the endpoint is local to your machine, Claude web cannot reach it. Use Claude Desktop or Claude Code.

Prerequisites

• Minutist desktop app installed and running (the endpoint is served by the app).
• Claude Desktop or Claude Code on the same machine.

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Find the local endpoint

The app shows the connector’s local URL (a localhost port) and its bearer token in the connector settings pane, together with a ready-to-paste config snippet. The token stays on your machine; regenerating it invalidates the old one.

Add it to Claude Desktop

1. Open the Claude Desktop config

   claude_desktop_config.json lives at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/ on macOS or %APPDATA%\Claude\ on Windows.

2. Paste the snippet from the app

   The app’s connector pane shows the exact mcpServers block for your port and token. It has this shape:

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "minutist": {
         "url": "http://localhost:<port>/mcp",
         "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <token>" }
       }
     }
   }

   Use the port and token shown in the app’s connector settings pane.

   Restart Claude Desktop.

3. Verify

   Ask Claude: “What Minutist tools do you have?” Claude should list the available tools. For a full reference, see MCP tools.

Add it to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http minutist http://localhost:<port>/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer <token>"

Substitute the port and token shown in the app’s connector settings pane.

Then verify the same way: “What Minutist tools do you have?”

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What Claude can do

Once connected, Claude can read your transcripts, notes, and summaries when you ask. It does not have standing access; each request you make triggers the tool call.

For the full list of available tools and their parameters, see MCP tools.

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Revoke access

Disable the connector (or regenerate its bearer token) in the app’s connector settings pane; either immediately cuts off every client using the old token. Then remove the minutist entry from your Claude config.