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.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add skills/silverstein/minutes/minutes-setupnpx skills add silverstein/minutes --skill minutes-setupgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/silverstein/minutesWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/silverstein/minutes/minutes-setup)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/silverstein/minutes/minutes-setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/silverstein/minutes/minutes-setup.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00067 | $0.00773 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00387 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00155 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00077 |
Grade A, and why
minutes-setup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Skill Path
Before running helper scripts or opening bundled references, set:
export MINUTES_SKILLS_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents/skills/minutes"
export MINUTES_SKILL_ROOT="$MINUTES_SKILLS_ROOT/minutes-setup"
/minutes-setup
Walk the user through first-time Minutes setup, step by step.
Setup steps
1. Check current state first
Run the verify skill's script to see what's already done:
bash "$MINUTES_SKILLS_ROOT/minutes-verify/scripts/verify-setup.sh"
Skip any steps that already pass.
2. Build the binary (if needed)
cd ~/Sites/minutes
export CXXFLAGS="-I$(xcrun --show-sdk-path)/usr/include/c++/v1"
cargo build --release
The binary lands at target/release/minutes. The user should add it to their PATH or create a symlink.
3. Download a whisper model
Ask the user which quality level they want using AskUserQuestion:
| Model | Size | Speed | Quality | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
tiny |
75 MB | ~10x real-time | Low | Quick tests, short memos |
small |
466 MB | ~4x real-time | Good | Daily meetings (recommended) |
medium |
1.5 GB | ~2x real-time | Great | Important meetings, accents |
large-v3 |
3.1 GB | ~1x real-time | Best | Legal, medical, foreign language |
Then run:
minutes setup --model <chosen-model>
4. Create directories
mkdir -p ~/meetings/memos
5. Audio input (if recording calls)
For in-person conversations, the built-in mic works fine. For Zoom/Meet/Teams:
- Install BlackHole:
brew install blackhole-2ch - Open Audio MIDI Setup (Spotlight → "Audio MIDI Setup")
- Create a Multi-Output Device combining speakers + BlackHole
- Set the Multi-Output Device as system output
- Set BlackHole as Minutes' input (or system default input)
See minutes-record/references/audio-devices.md for the full guide.
6. Verify
Run verify again to confirm everything passes:
bash "$MINUTES_SKILLS_ROOT/minutes-verify/scripts/verify-setup.sh"
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 6d ago First seen · 97 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 3a607ff900a6
minutes-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository silverstein/minutes (1,467 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 773 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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