Granola — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the

granola-pp-cli

binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

Install via the Printing Press installer:

bash

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install granola --cli-only

Verify:
```
granola-pp-cli --version
```
Ensure
```
$GOPATH/bin
```
(or
```
$HOME/go/bin
```
) is on
```
$PATH
```
.

If the

npx

install fails before this CLI has a public-library category, install Node or use the category-specific Go fallback after publish.

--version

reports "command not found" after install, the install step did not put the binary on

$PATH

. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

This CLI reads Granola’s local cache directly and adds the queries Granola.ai’s web app and existing community CLIs cannot answer. Cache-first, then internal API, then public API — transparent fallthrough. memo run, memo queue, attendee timeline, recipes coverage, calendar overlay, and talktime are local-data joins no per-meeting tool produces. Works offline; agent-native JSON by default.

When to Use This CLI

Reach for granola-pp-cli when you need to answer cross-meeting questions Granola.ai’s web app and the GUI cannot — attendee timelines, MEMO pipeline state, recipes coverage gaps, calendar overlay, talk-time aggregation. It is the right tool for an agent processing transcripts in a loop, a CSM doing pre-call prep, or a consultant running a weekly retro. Pair the --json default with --select dotted paths to keep agent context lean.

When Not to Use This CLI

Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. This printed CLI exposes read-only commands for inspection, export, sync, and analysis.

Platform Notes

warm <id> <query>

drives the Granola desktop GUI via AppleScript and is macOS-only. It prints what it would do by default; pass

--launch

to actually activate the app. On non-macOS hosts the command exits 0 with a "not supported" message. All other commands are cross-platform.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

MEMO pipeline

memo run
— Run the preflight → extract pipeline on one meeting or every new meeting since a timestamp, emitting the MEMO three-file artifact and an ndjson run-state ledger.
Replaces the per-meeting shell loop that drives the MEMO pipeline — one call, one ndjson stream, agent-readable.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli memo run --since 24h --to ~/Documents/Dev/meeting-transcripts --json
```
memo queue
— List every meeting whose transcript is in the cache but whose MEMO triple is not yet on disk.
Answers the daily question “what’s still un-MEMO’d?” without the user opening Granola at all.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli memo queue --since 7d --json
```

Attendee intelligence

attendee timeline
— Every meeting with a given attendee, ordered oldest→newest, with title, date, folder, and recipe-applied flag per row.
Pre-call prep in one command; surfaces the conversation arc with a single person across months of meetings.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli attendee timeline alice@example.com --since 60d --json --select id,title,started_at,folder,recipes
```
attendee brief
— Pulls the last N meetings with an attendee and stitches together their real cached notes plus real AI panel summaries — no synthesis.
Eliminates the click-each-meeting copy-paste that account leads do before every external call.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli attendee brief alice@example.com --last 3 --panel action-items --json
```

Folders + recipes

folder stream
— ndjson stream of every meeting in a Granola folder (resolved via documentLists + listRules) with notes and a named panel inlined.
Replaces the weekly retro workflow of opening a folder and copy-pasting each meeting’s summary into a spreadsheet.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli folder stream client-foo --panel summary --json
```
recipes coverage
— Surface meetings that did NOT have a named panel template/recipe applied within a date range.
Friday retro question “did I run the Discovery recipe on every new-prospect call?” answered in one row per gap.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli recipes coverage discovery --since 14d --json
```

Transcript analytics

talktime
— Per-segment-source talk-time for one meeting — microphone (you) vs system (everyone else) in minutes.
Confidence column lets you grade transcript accuracy; mic vs system split is the input to “am I talking too much” retros.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli talktime 196037d9 --json
```
talktime
— Lifts the per-source talk-time aggregation across N meetings since a date — who-talked-most over time.
Time-defrag retro input that no per-meeting tool can produce.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli talktime --by participant --since 7d --json
```

Cache-native data

chat list
— List and dump Granola’s AI chat threads anchored to a meeting (entities.chat_thread + entities.chat_message in the cache).
Recovers the AI Q&A history a user has accumulated against a meeting — useful when chasing what you asked about an account weeks ago.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli chat list 196037d9 --json
```
calendar overlay
— Left-anti-join meetingsMetadata calendar events with documents.google_calendar_event to find calendared-but-not-recorded meetings.
Sarah’s Friday retro and Damien’s “what did I miss” sweep both reduce to this row-level diff.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli calendar overlay --week 2026-05-11 --missed-only --json
```

Pipeline hygiene

duplicates scan
— Hash (title, date-bucket, attendee-email-set) across the cache and a meeting-transcripts repo to surface duplicates at scale.
Repos accumulate near-duplicate files when meetings are re-extracted; this returns the dupe groups for cleanup.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli duplicates scan --root ~/Documents/Dev/meeting-transcripts --json
```
tiptap extract
— Render documents[id].notes (TipTap JSON: headings, bullet_list, list_item, bold marks, paragraph_break) to canonical markdown instead of falling back to notes_plain.
The MEMO summary file’s quality is bounded by extractor fidelity; granola.py loses sub-list hierarchy and bold runs.
bash
```
granola-pp-cli tiptap extract 196037d9 --as markdown
```

Command Reference

This CLI exposes 35+ commands. The full tree is too long to inline; ask the CLI for the canonical list:

bash

granola-pp-cli --help                              # top-level commands
granola-pp-cli <command> --help                    # subcommands + flags
granola-pp-cli agent-context --json                # machine-readable command tree for agents

Quick orientation by group:

Group	Commands	Purpose
MEMO pipeline	`memo run` , `memo queue` , `preflight` , `extract`	Composed three-stream pipeline; reads cache + writes MEMO triple
Meetings	`meetings list` , `meetings get` , `meetings fetch-batch` , `meetings delete` , `meetings restore` , `show`	List/inspect/mutate meetings (delete/restore mutate via internal API)
Streams	`notes-show` , `panel get` , `transcript get` , `tiptap extract`	The three streams — human notes, AI panels, transcript — addressable separately
Export	`export` , `export-all`	Combined three-stream markdown export, single or bulk
Cross-meeting analytics	`attendee timeline` , `attendee brief` , `folder stream` , `recipes coverage` , `talktime` , `calendar overlay` , `stats frequency` , `stats duration` , `stats attendees` , `stats calendar` , `collect` , `duplicates scan` , `chat list` , `chat get`	Queries no per-meeting tool can answer
Folders / recipes / workspaces	`folders` (public-API), `folder list` , `folder stream` , `recipes list` , `recipes describe` , `recipes coverage` , `workspaces list`	Granola organizational entities
Public-API mirrors	`notes list` , `notes get` , `folders`	Typed Bearer-key endpoints
Sync / system	`sync` , `sync-api` , `doctor` , `auth login` , `auth status` , `auth set-token` , `auth logout` , `which` , `agent-context` , `version` , `import`	Local store hydration, auth, capability discovery, batch import
GUI bridge	`warm` (macOS only)	Drives Granola desktop app via AppleScript

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

bash

granola-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which

resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code

means at least one match; exit code

means no confident match — fall back to

--help

or use a narrower query.

Recipes

Daily MEMO loop

bash

granola-pp-cli memo run --since 24h --to ~/Documents/Dev/meeting-transcripts --json

Process every new meeting since yesterday into the MEMO triple format and yield only the new artifacts.

Pre-call attendee brief

bash

granola-pp-cli attendee brief alice@example.com --last 3 --panel action-items --json --select meetings.title,meetings.started_at,panels.action_items

Pull the last three meetings with Trevin and only the title, date, and action-items panel content per meeting.

Friday retro — missing recipes

bash

granola-pp-cli recipes coverage discovery --since 14d --json

Surface every new-prospect call in the last fortnight that did not have the Discovery panel applied. Omit the slug to list coverage gaps across every panel template.

Repo-wide duplicate scrub

bash

granola-pp-cli duplicates scan --root ~/Documents/Dev/meeting-transcripts --json

Find duplicate-meeting clusters across the MEMO output repo for cleanup.

Calendar-overlay missed-meeting sweep

bash

granola-pp-cli calendar overlay --week 2026-05-11 --missed-only --json

Calendared meetings with no Granola recording — weekly accountability check.

Auth Setup

Install Granola desktop and sign in. The CLI reads the local cache and tokens the desktop manages. No CLI-side credentials to configure.
Run any command. On macOS, the first invocation that needs the cache or tokens (typically
```
granola-pp-cli sync
```
) triggers a Keychain prompt for
```
Granola Safe Storage
```
. Click "Always Allow" so subsequent runs are silent. The CLI uses Granola's own Keychain-stored encryption key to decrypt
```
cache-v6.json.enc
```
and
```
supabase.json.enc
```
.
CLI is read-only against the refresh token. Granola desktop owns rotation; the CLI never calls
```
RefreshAccessToken
```
against the encrypted token store because rotating it there would sign Granola desktop out next time the desktop tries to refresh. If a request fails with "token expired", open Granola desktop briefly to refresh, then re-run the CLI command.
Power users / CI:
GRANOLA_WORKOS_TOKEN
. Setting this env var bypasses the Keychain prompt entirely and accepts the refresh-rotation trade-off (rotating the token via the CLI will sign the desktop out). Use only when CLI-side refresh is required, typically for headless agents.

Optional public REST API path: set

GRANOLA_API_KEY

for the typed

notes

and

folders

top-level commands at

public-api.granola.ai

. Most workflows do not need this.

Run

granola-pp-cli doctor

to verify setup. The "Encrypted store" line distinguishes four states: not installed, pre-encryption Granola, present-but-not-yet-synced, ok, or last-sync-failed-with-class.

Troubleshooting

`doctor` says...	What to do
`INFO no Granola install detected`	Install Granola desktop from granola.ai and sign in.
`INFO not in use (Granola pre-encryption)`	Granola desktop pre-encryption versions wrote plaintext files; the CLI still reads them. Upgrade Granola desktop to pick up the encrypted store.
`INFO present; run sync to authorize Keychain access`	Run `granola-pp-cli sync` . Click "Always Allow" on the macOS prompt.
`OK ok`	Last successful sync recorded. Token source and document-fetch count visible in `--json` output.
`ERROR last sync failed to decrypt (key_unavailable)`	Sign back into Granola desktop, re-run sync, accept the Keychain prompt.
`ERROR last sync failed to decrypt (decrypt_failed)`	Encryption scheme may have drifted with a Granola update. File an issue with the doctor output.

Agent Mode

Add

--agent

to any command. Expands to:

--json --compact --no-input --no-color --yes

Pipeable — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr
Filterable —
```
--select
```
keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs:
bash
```
granola-pp-cli folders --agent --select id,name,status
```
Previewable —
```
--dry-run
```
shows the request without sending
Offline-friendly —
```
sync
```
and the
```
meetings list --query <text>
```
FTS path use the local SQLite store
Non-interactive — never prompts, every input is a flag
Mostly read-only —
```
meetings delete
```
,
```
meetings restore
```
,
```
import
```
, and
```
warm --launch
```
are the only commands that mutate state; every other command inspects, exports, syncs, or analyzes

Response envelope

Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope:

json

{
  "meta": {"source": "live" | "local", "synced_at": "...", "reason": "..."},
  "results": <data>
}

Parse

.results

for data and

.meta.source

to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable

N results (live)

summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal — piped/agent consumers get pure JSON on stdout.

Auto-Refresh

Every command auto-refreshes the local store as its first action. You do not need to run

granola-pp-cli sync

before

meetings list

panel get

, or any other read — the CLI handles that for you on every invocation.

Two auth surfaces refresh independently:

Surface	What runs	When it fires
Desktop encrypted cache	`sync` (cache → SQLite)	When `~/Library/Application Support/Granola/cache-v6.json.enc` (or pre-encryption `cache-v6.json` ) is present
Public REST API	`sync-api` (public-api.granola.ai → SQLite)	When `GRANOLA_API_KEY` is set or an access token is saved in the config file

When both are available, both refresh routines fire (cache first, then api). When neither is configured, auto-refresh is a silent no-op and your underlying command produces its own auth error.

Freshness ceiling. Auto-refresh reads from Granola desktop's encrypted cache file; it does not poke the desktop app to refresh from Granola servers. The freshness ceiling is whatever Granola desktop has already pulled. If a meeting just ended and the desktop hasn't synced from servers yet, no CLI-side refresh will surface it. For latest-second-fresh data, open Granola desktop briefly before invoking the CLI.

Provenance line. When stderr is a TTY and you are not in

--agent

--json

--compact

--quiet

mode, a one-liner like

auto-refresh: cache=ok (1.2s, 47 rows)  api=ok (820ms, 12 rows)

lands on stderr after the refresh. Agent and JSON consumers see no chatter on stdout.

Failures are non-fatal. A refresh that fails prints

cache=failed: <short reason>

on stderr and the command proceeds against whatever data is already in the store. Run

granola-pp-cli doctor

to investigate persistent refresh failures.

Opt out (precedence: flag wins over env):

bash

# Single command:
granola-pp-cli meetings list --no-refresh

# For a shell session / CI job:
export GRANOLA_NO_AUTO_REFRESH=1

# Saved per-profile via the existing profile mechanism:
granola-pp-cli profile save fast --no-refresh
granola-pp-cli --profile fast meetings list

Skipped commands. Auto-refresh never fires for

sync

sync-api

auth*

doctor

help

version

completion

agent-context

profile*

feedback*

, or

which

. These either do not read data or cannot operate before auth is established.

agent-context --json

exposes the full skip list under

auto_refresh.skip_list

for introspecting agents.

Agent Feedback

When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it:

granola-pp-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive"
granola-pp-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt
granola-pp-cli feedback list --json --limit 10

Entries are stored locally at

~/.granola-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl

. They are never POSTed unless

GRANOLA_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT

is set AND either

--send

is passed or

GRANOLA_FEEDBACK_AUTO_SEND=true

. Default behavior is local-only.

Write what surprised you, not a bug report. Short, specific, one line: that is the part that compounds.

Output Delivery

Every command accepts

--deliver <sink>

. The output goes to the named sink in addition to (or instead of) stdout, so agents can route command results without hand-piping. Three sinks are supported:

Sink	Effect
`stdout`	Default; write to stdout only
`file:<path>`	Atomically write output to `<path>` (tmp + rename)
`webhook:<url>`	POST the output body to the URL ( `application/json` or `application/x-ndjson` when `--compact` )

Unknown schemes are refused with a structured error naming the supported set. Webhook failures return non-zero and log the URL + HTTP status on stderr.

Named Profiles

A profile is a saved set of flag values, reused across invocations. Use it when a scheduled agent calls the same command every run with the same configuration - HeyGen's "Beacon" pattern.

granola-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
granola-pp-cli --profile briefing folders
granola-pp-cli profile list --json
granola-pp-cli profile show briefing
granola-pp-cli profile delete briefing --yes

Explicit flags always win over profile values; profile values win over defaults.

agent-context

lists all available profiles under

available_profiles

so introspecting agents discover them at runtime.

Exit Codes

Code	Meaning
0	Success
2	Usage error (wrong arguments)
3	Resource not found
4	Authentication required
5	API error (upstream issue)
7	Rate limited (wait and retry)
10	Config error

Argument Parsing

Parse

$ARGUMENTS

Empty,
help
, or
--help
→ show
```
granola-pp-cli --help
```
output
Starts with
install
→ ends with
```
mcp
```
→ MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above
Anything else → Direct Use (execute as CLI command with
```
--agent
```
)

MCP Server Installation

Install the MCP binary from this CLI's published public-library entry or pre-built release, then register it:

bash

claude mcp add granola-pp-mcp -- granola-pp-mcp

Verify:

claude mcp list

Direct Use

Check if installed:
```
which granola-pp-cli
```
If not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill).
Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.

Execute with the

--agent

flag:

bash

granola-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent

If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help:
```
granola-pp-cli <command> --help
```
.

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SKILL.md Content

Granola — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

When to Use This CLI

When Not to Use This CLI

Platform Notes

Unique Capabilities

MEMO pipeline

Attendee intelligence

Folders + recipes

Transcript analytics

Cache-native data

Pipeline hygiene

Command Reference

Finding the right command

Recipes

Daily MEMO loop

Pre-call attendee brief

Friday retro — missing recipes

Repo-wide duplicate scrub

Calendar-overlay missed-meeting sweep

Auth Setup

Troubleshooting

Agent Mode

Response envelope

Auto-Refresh

Agent Feedback

Output Delivery

Named Profiles

Exit Codes

Argument Parsing

MCP Server Installation

Direct Use