minutes: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

minutes CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from silverstein/minutes. It costs 6,659 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for Minutes, a privacy-focused memory tool that records or imports audio, transcribes it locally, identifies speakers, and saves searchable Markdown notes with decisions and action items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing the recording, live-transcription, note-taking, folder-watching, search, or setup features.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent the project's architecture, setup commands, models, and test instructions for its Rust, Tauri, and Node.js components.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is silverstein/minutes's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on minutes itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything minutes configures →

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

About the project

Minutes is an open-source, local-first meeting recorder that transcribes meetings, calls, and voice memos on the device and stores the results as Markdown files. It is for people who want their meeting records available to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other MCP clients without uploading them. The catalogue add-ons extend agent workflows for querying and using those local meeting files.

silverstein/minutes · 1,591 stars · on GitHub · useminutes.app

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to silverstein/minutes. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/silverstein/minutes

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Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **ureq** for HTTP — pure Rust, no secrets in process args (replaced curl)
CLAUDE.md · 369 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 369 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Minutes

Your AI remembers the conversations you authorize.

Project Overview

Minutes — open-source, privacy-first conversation memory layer for AI assistants. Captures meetings, voice memos, and brain dumps, transcribes locally with whisper.cpp, diarizes speakers, and outputs searchable markdown with structured action items and decisions. Built with Rust + Tauri v2 + Node.js (MCP).

Four input modes, one pipeline:

  • Live recording: minutes record / minutes stop — for meetings, calls, conversations
  • Live transcript: minutes live / minutes stop — real-time transcription with delta reads for AI coaching mid-meeting
  • Notetaking: minutes note "important point" — timestamped annotations during recording
  • Folder watcher: minutes watch — auto-processes voice memos from iPhone/iCloud

Quick Start

cd ~/Sites/minutes
cargo build                          # Build Rust workspace
cargo test -p minutes-core --no-default-features  # Fast tests (no whisper model)
cargo run --bin minutes -- setup --model tiny      # Download whisper model
cargo run --bin minutes -- setup --diarization     # Download speaker diarization models (~34MB)
cargo run --bin minutes -- record    # Start recording
cargo run --bin minutes -- stop      # Stop and process

Full Build (CLI + Tauri App)

./scripts/build.sh                   # Builds everything and installs CLI
./scripts/build.sh --install         # Same + copies .app to /Applications
./scripts/install-dev-app.sh         # Canonical signed dev app install to ~/Applications/Minutes Dev.app
# Or manually:
export CXXFLAGS="-I$(xcrun --show-sdk-path)/usr/include/c++/v1"
cargo build --release -p minutes-cli           # CLI binary
cargo tauri build --bundles app                # Tauri .app bundle
rm -f ~/.local/bin/minutes && cp target/release/minutes ~/.local/bin/minutes # Install CLI (rm first: in-place cp over a running binary invalidates its signature -> SIGKILL on every launch)
open target/release/bundle/macos/Minutes.app   # Launch app

Read the full file on GitHub · 369 lines

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minutes CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository silverstein/minutes (1,591 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 6,659 tokens to every session, about $0.0266 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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