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Recordist includes a small helper, @recordist/gateway, that lets AI assistants read your meetings. It runs on your own machine and talks only to the Recordist app there. Any assistant that supports the MCP standard can use it; the three most common are below.

Claude Desktop

Add this to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recordist": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@recordist/gateway"] }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The Recordist tools appear under the tools icon.

Claude Code

claude mcp add recordist -- npx -y @recordist/gateway

Cursor

Settings → MCP → Add server, with the command npx -y @recordist/gateway.

What the agent can do

List, open, search and read your meetings and open action items. While the app is running it can also regenerate notes, drop a marker, and start or stop a recording, on every plan; on Free, notes it asks for count toward the 3 AI notes a month after the trial. Starting a recording also needs Allow agents to start recordings in Settings → Integrations, which is off by default. Ask “what did we decide about pricing last week?” and the assistant searches, reads the passage and answers with the timestamp.

Transcripts and notes are generated automatically and may be wrong; check the recording before acting on what an assistant tells you.

What it cannot do

It cannot reach anything off your machine. The helper only ever talks to the Recordist app on your own machine. Where the assistant then sends what it read is up to the assistant you connected and its provider; the Privacy Ledger records only what Recordist itself sends.

Connecting by URL instead

The setups above start the helper for your assistant, and it needs no token. Some assistants connect to the helper by a web address on your own machine instead. That kind of connection sends the token the Recordist app keeps on your machine, and needs the current version of the helper. The MCP server page shows how to update it and how to send the token.

Technical reference, including the A2A agent card for agent frameworks: Developers → MCP server and A2A agent.

Recordist

Recordist for Mac is downloading.

Thank you for trying Recordist. Three steps and it is ready before your next call. Open it now, so it is set up in time.

  1. 1Open the download and drag Recordist to Applications, then open it from there.
  2. 2Allow the microphone and system audio when your Mac asks, so both sides of the call are heard. Calendar is optional: it names your meetings and who is in them.
  3. 3Close the window when you like. Recordist waits in the menu bar and, when your next call starts, asks: Record this meeting? Nothing is recorded until you say yes.

The first time it opens, Recordist downloads its speech model: 142 MB in English, 466 MB for other languages. That usually takes a minute or two, and you can record once it finishes. The notes engine, 1 to 3 GB, follows in the background.

While it downloads, see a finished call in your browser

Every install includes 7 days of Pro, so your first calls are written up in full.

No call today? Import a recording you already have: in Recordist, Meetings, then Import audio. One of 10 minutes or more starts your 7 days of Pro, and the notes follow the transcript.

While it downloads, get your Free key. More AI notes each month, with no end date. Optional: your download has already started.

Two emails: a link to confirm, then a copy of your key. Nothing else unless you ask. We never sell or share your address, and Resend, our email service, sends them for us. Privacy

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