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Connect AI agents (MCP) Pro

Abschrift ships a local MCP server. Agents like Claude Desktop and Claude Code can list, search, and read your meetings — over stdio, on your Mac. No ports open, nothing uploaded.

The server is part of Abschrift Pro. On the free tier, abschrift mcp exits with a message that says so — it never leaves an agent waiting on a dead server.

Setup

Settings → Connect AI agents (MCP) shows copy-paste-ready snippets with your real paths. In short:

Claude Code

claude mcp add --scope user abschrift -- \
  /Applications/Abschrift.app/Contents/MacOS/abschrift mcp --out ~/Abschrift

Claude Desktop

After adding this to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json, restart it:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "abschrift": {
      "command": "/Applications/Abschrift.app/Contents/MacOS/abschrift",
      "args": ["mcp", "--out", "/Users/you/Abschrift"]
    }
  }
}

The command in both snippets is the bundled abschrift CLI — the same binary you can link into your PATH from Settings → Command line. More on it in the CLI guide.

What agents can do

list_meetings / get_meeting — browse your meetings
search_meetings — full-text search over notes and transcripts (BM25-ranked, with snippets)
get_notes / get_transcript — read a meeting's Markdown

Try: “What did we decide about the Q3 roadmap? Check my Abschrift meetings.”

Notes on privacy

The MCP server is read-only and local. Any agent you connect will see meeting content. That is the same trust decision as choosing a cloud notes provider. If you index the vault with external tools, index notes only (**/notes.md). External indexes keep their own copies, and those copies would quietly outlive Abschrift's transcript retention.