minutes-verify

A health check for Minutes, a local meeting-recording and transcription tool. It checks whether the command, speech model, folders, audio input, configuration, and recording state are ready.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify the installation, test recording readiness, or check the setup after installing Minutes.
Why use it?
It helps identify why recording or transcription is not working and confirms which setup parts are missing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/silverstein/minutes/minutes-verify
Any agent
npx skills add silverstein/minutes --skill minutes-verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/silverstein/minutes

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 747 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00071 $0.00747
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00374
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00075

Measured yesterday against content hash 477f4341d813, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify-setup.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.agents/skills/minutes/minutes-verify/SKILL.md · 60 lines

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 missingcargo build --release in the minutes repo, then add to PATH
  • No modelminutes setup --model small (recommended) or --model tiny (faster, lower quality)
  • No meetings dirmkdir -p ~/meetings/memos — will also be created on first recording
  • Stale PIDrm ~/.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 setup so Minutes can recreate the .metadata_never_index markers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Files

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.

Changes

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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 60 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 477f4341d813

Subscribe to this mod's changes

minutes-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository silverstein/minutes (1,457 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 747 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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