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 skills add silverstein/minutes --skill minutes-verifygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/silverstein/minutesWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/silverstein/minutes/minutes-verify)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/silverstein/minutes/minutes-verify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/silverstein/minutes/minutes-verify/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/silverstein/minutes/minutes-verify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/silverstein/minutes/minutes-verify.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Tool Misuse · line 49 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 48 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 | $0.00071 | $0.00747 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00028 | $0.00299 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00149 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00075 |
Grade A, and why
minutes-verify scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Skill Path
Before running helper scripts or opening bundled references, set:
export MINUTES_SKILLS_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents/skills/minutes"
export MINUTES_SKILL_ROOT="$MINUTES_SKILLS_ROOT/minutes-verify"
/minutes-verify
Run a health check on the Minutes installation to confirm everything is working.
How to verify
Run the verification script included with this skill:
bash "$MINUTES_SKILL_ROOT/scripts/verify-setup.sh"
The script checks each component and outputs a pass/fail status for each. Read the output and report results to the user.
What gets checked
| Check | What it verifies |
|---|---|
| Binary | minutes command exists on PATH |
| Model | At least one whisper model downloaded in ~/.minutes/models/ or ~/.cache/whisper/ |
| Meetings dir | ~/meetings/ directory exists |
| Memos dir | ~/meetings/memos/ directory exists |
| PID state | No stale PID file in ~/.minutes/recording.pid |
| Audio input | CLI-context audio input visibility (macOS only; desktop readiness is authoritative for the signed app) |
| Config | ~/.config/minutes/config.toml exists (optional — defaults work fine) |
| Spotlight privacy | macOS .metadata_never_index markers exist for ~/.minutes and ~/meetings when those directories exist |
After verification
If any checks fail, tell the user exactly what to do:
- Binary missing →
cargo build --releasein the minutes repo, then add to PATH - No model →
minutes setup --model small(recommended) or--model tiny(faster, lower quality) - No meetings dir →
mkdir -p ~/meetings/memos— will also be created on first recording - Stale PID →
rm ~/.minutes/recording.pid— previous recording crashed without cleanup - Audio input warning → Treat as CLI-context-only. If the signed desktop app's Readiness Center shows Audio input/Microphone as ready, trust the desktop app identity.
- Spotlight privacy warning → Open the desktop app or run
minutes setupso Minutes can recreate the.metadata_never_indexmarkers.
What ships with it
2 files 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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 477f4341d813
minutes-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository silverstein/minutes (1,553 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 747 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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