Overview
Minutes is the private, owned conversation-memory layer. Record meetings, voice memos, and dictation; transcribe them on your own machine; and get structured markdown in ~/meetings/ that policy-aware local tools expose to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Pi, and MCP-compatible clients — no proprietary SDK, no API key. Restricted meetings are excluded from agent results by default; explicit access requires a trusted launch policy, a per-call request, and a durable audit record. Minutes never uploads your audio; meeting text leaves your device only when you explicitly send policy-authorized context to a connected cloud agent or summarizer. When a cloud memory tool gets acquired or subpoenaed, your recordings aren't theirs to hand over. No vendor to outlive — ten years from now, grep still works on your corpus. 34 tools • 11 resources • Interactive MCP App dashboard • 6 prompt templates What you get: • On-device transcription with sealed local whisper.cpp and optional on-device summarization (Apple Foundation Models on macOS 26+) — your audio never leaves the machine. Retained Parakeet and Apple Speech preferences resolve to Whisper until those helpers support secure byte transport. • Re-run the AI pass on edited meetings and memos with preview-first output, backup-on-apply writes, and edit-preserving merges. • A native chat panel that recalls policy-authorized meetings, with token streaming and read-only policy-bound search. • Dictation that types straight at your cursor, on the same local engine. • Live sessions that promote into diarized, summarized meetings when you stop. • Consent provenance in every file, and sensitivity gating agents must respect. • Diarized speaker labels, structured action items and decisions, and policy-safe search over owned markdown. Cross-meeting relationship answers are rebuilt from bounded live policy-authorized snapshots; compatibility-only derived insight and annotation reads still fail explicitly until their source provenance can be revalidated. Before you start. Minutes runs entirely on your own machine, so it needs the Minutes engine installed locally. The extension normally downloads it for you the first time it runs. If your machine cannot reach the internet, or you are on a platform we do not publish a binary for, install it yourself: on macOS and Windows get the free desktop app from https://useminutes.app, which includes the engine and keeps it updated; on Linux install the CLI from the same page. Until the engine is present the extension still starts and lists its tools, and each tool will tell you what is missing.
