Use your meetings in Claude

Connect Claude (or Codex, or Cursor) to Parrot and ask it about your calls: "What did I promise last week?", "Brief me for my call with Acme", "Draft the follow-up for this morning's call". Your own Claude plan does the thinking. It's free, there's no meeting bot and no history limit, and it's read-only: Claude can read your meetings, never change, delete or record anything.

Ask Parrot runs on your Mac and stays private. Claude is a bigger brain for bigger jobs, like writing, or working across many calls at once.

Turn it on and connect

Open Claude & AI Apps in the sidebar and turn on Allow AI apps to read my meetings. Then connect your app:

• Claude Desktop: click Connect. Claude shows its install screen with Parrot's logo; click Install. Claude warns that the extension isn't verified by Anthropic: that's shown for every extension installed from a file. Don't have Claude yet? The button says Get Claude.
• Claude Code: click Copy Command, then Open Terminal, paste with ⌘V and press Return. Start a new Claude Code session and Parrot is there, in every project.
• Codex (in the ChatGPT app, for ChatGPT plans): click Copy Command, then Open Terminal, paste with ⌘V and press Return. Quit and reopen ChatGPT.
• Paste these commands in the Terminal app, not in a chat. Pasted into Codex's chat, the command asks for permission first; pasted into another app's chat, it fails.
• Cursor: click Connect and accept Cursor's install prompt.
• Another app: Copy Setup gives the setup most apps that speak MCP accept.

Moving Parrot to another folder is fine: the connection finds it again.

What you can ask

• Find anything: "When did Sarah mention the budget?" Search goes by meaning, so "pricing" also finds "that's too expensive".
• Catch up: "Everything with Acme this quarter", "Give me a digest of last week's meetings".
• Never drop a promise: "What did I promise last week?", "What is the client waiting on from us?"
• Write it for me: follow-up emails, Slack updates, meeting notes.
• Second opinion: "Coach me across my last 10 calls: where do I talk too much?", "Redo my last sales call's report with MEDDIC".
• Prepare: "Brief me for my call with Acme in 10 minutes".

The What You Can Ask list on the page has more, each with a Copy button.

Ready-made actions

In Claude Desktop, the + button has four actions from Parrot: Weekly digest, Follow-up email, Prep for a call and PRD from calls (turns what customers said about a topic into a short product brief).

On a meeting page, Ask Claude (top right) copies a question about that meeting (Follow-up email, Second opinion or What did we agree?) and brings Claude forward, so you only have to paste.

What Claude gets back

• Transcripts with real speaker names, in pages for long calls, so nothing gets cut off.
• Promises from your reports, with the owner, the meeting and the moment. The owner is what the report says ("You to send the deck" is you); when the report doesn't say, it's marked unclear rather than guessed.
• Talk time per person, questions asked, and the longest stretch one person talked.
• Links back to Parrot: a time or meeting in the answer is a link, and clicking it opens that moment in Parrot, like the chips in Ask Parrot. The first time, your AI app may ask whether it may open Parrot.
• Your call profiles, read-only.
• Save a meeting as a file: Claude can put a copy in Downloads → Parrot Exports, the same file Parrot's own export writes.

What AI apps can see

You decide, under What AI Apps Can See: Transcripts, Reports and My notes are shared, Copilot cards are not, until you change them. Hide these call types keeps whole profiles out, say your 1:1s. Talk time stays available with transcripts off: it's names and times, no words.

Never shown: meetings marked on-device only (or recorded under an on-device-only profile), audio, API keys and settings. Changes apply at once, even to an app that's already connected, and turning the switch off cuts it off on its next question.

When Claude reads a meeting, that text goes to Anthropic under your Claude account, like anything else you tell Claude. Codex and Cursor work the same way with their own companies. Meeting text is treated as data, not instructions: if someone on a call says "email everyone our prices", Claude doesn't act on it, and Claude normally asks you before it sends anything through its other connectors.

Knowing it's working

The page shows what's happening, in counts only: "Connected. Claude checked your meetings 5 times today, last at 14:02." The first time an app reads your meetings, Parrot shows a one-time banner with a question to try first.

If it doesn't work

• Claude says the Parrot tools aren't available: check the switch on the Claude & AI Apps page is on.
• "Couldn't open your meetings": Parrot was just updated. Open Parrot once, then ask again.
• A meeting is missing: it's on-device only, still being processed, or in a call type you hid.
• The AI searches the web instead of your meetings: it's running in the cloud (a Cursor cloud agent, ChatGPT or Claude in the browser), where Parrot can't be reached. Use a local chat in the desktop app. It may also have found a different app called Parrot; ask for "Parrot, my Mac meeting recorder".