Granola Meeting Intelligence

granola

mcporter

Setup

• Binary:

  ~/.local/bin/granola

• Source:

  ~/Code/joelhooks/granola-cli

• Config:

  ~/.config/granola-cli/mcporter.json

• Transport: MCP via mcporter (NOT direct API, NOT npm package)
• Auth: Uses Granola's local credentials automatically

CLI Commands

List meetings

granola meetings [--range this_week|last_week|last_30_days|custom] [--start YYYY-MM-DD] [--end YYYY-MM-DD]

Get meeting details (summary, participants)

granola meeting <meeting-id>

Get full transcript

granola meeting <meeting-id> --transcript

Search meetings

granola search "<query>"

Check auth/connection

granola --help

"connected": true

Output Format

next_actions

{
  "ok": true,
  "command": "granola meetings",
  "result": { ... },
  "next_actions": [
    { "command": "granola meeting <id>", "description": "Get details" }
  ]
}

Important Notes

• Timestamps are UTC. Granola returns all dates in UTC. A meeting showing "5:01 PM" on Feb 26 is actually 9:01 AM PST. Always convert when displaying to Joel or writing to Vault files.
• Codex cannot run Granola. The MCP transport (mcporter) requires a local socket that Codex sandboxes can't open (

  EPERM

  ). Always pull transcripts from pi/gateway sessions, not codex tasks.

Known Limitations

• Rate limiting:

  get_meeting_transcript

  endpoint rate-limits aggressively. Don't batch transcript pulls — space them out.
• Concurrency: Keep concurrency at 1 for transcript fetches. Original concurrency of 3 overwhelmed the API.
• Granola app not required locally: The MCP server handles auth via stored creds, Granola desktop app does NOT need to be running.

MCP Tools (underlying)

1. query_granola_meetings

   — NL search with citations

2. list_meetings

   — by time range

3. get_meetings

   — details by ID array

4. get_meeting_transcript

   — verbatim transcript by ID

Pipeline Integration

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8288/e/$EVENT_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "meeting/noted",
    "data": {
      "meeting_id": "<id>",
      "title": "<title>",
      "date": "<YYYY-MM-DD>",
      "source": "granola",
      "participants": ["Person A", "Person B"]
    }
  }'

• check/granola-meetings

  — event-triggered check for new meetings

• granola-check-cron

  — hourly cron (

  7 * * * *

  ) polling for new meetings

• granola-backfill

  — bulk backfill all meetings

Related

• ADR-0055: Granola Meeting Intelligence Pipeline
• Source repo:

  ~/Code/joelhooks/granola-cli

• Inngest functions:

  packages/system-bus/src/inngest/functions/check-granola.ts

• Meeting analysis:

  packages/system-bus/src/inngest/functions/meeting-analyze.ts

• Transcript indexing:

  packages/system-bus/src/inngest/functions/meeting-transcript-index.ts