Granola

Granola Meeting Intelligence

Access Joel's Granola meeting notes via the granola CLI, which wraps the Granola MCP server through 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

Returns "connected": true if MCP transport is working.

Output Format

All commands return agent-first JSON with HATEOAS 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)

The granola CLI wraps these MCP tools: 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

When a new meeting is detected, fire an Inngest event:

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"]
    }
  }'

Inngest functions that process meetings:

• 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