Connect Pandecho to your AI agents

The 30-second setup

Everything lives in Settings → Automation → CLI & agents inside the Pandecho app.

Open the Automation settings

In Pandecho, click the Settings gear (bottom of the sidebar) → under Automation, choose CLI & agents.

Install the shell command (optional)

Click Install to PATH to type pandecho-cli from any terminal. macOS asks for your password once to create the symlink.

Connect an agent

Under Connect agents, find your agent and click Connect. Pandecho writes its MCP server into that agent's config automatically — no JSON editing.

Restart your agent & ask away

Restart Claude Desktop / your CLI so it picks up the new MCP server. Then ask it about your meetings (examples below).

Keep Pandecho running. The CLI and MCP server talk to Pandecho's local server, so the app needs to be open for agents to read your meetings.

What you can ask

Once connected, talk to your agent in plain English — it pulls the answer from your notes on-device.

you ▸ what were the action items from my last meeting? claude ▸ Querying pandecho (local)… From “Acme — Renewal sync” (today): • Maya → send revised deck by Friday • You → share SOC 2 doc with legal • Decision: target go-live end of Q3

🔎 Recall & search

“What was my last meeting about?”
“Find every meeting where we discussed the Q3 launch.”
“When did I last talk to Sarah, and what did we cover?”
“Pull the transcript from yesterday's standup.”

✅ Decisions & action items

“What action items am I on the hook for this week?”
“What did we decide about pricing in the renewal call?”
“List the open questions from my last 3 meetings.”

✍️ Draft from context

“Draft a follow-up email based on my meeting with Acme.”
“Write release notes from this morning's planning call.”
“Summarize this week's meetings into a status update.”

🤝 Cross-tool workflows

“While you code, check the meeting where we spec'd this feature.”
“Create a ticket from each action item in my last meeting.”
“Compare what we said about the API in the last two syncs.”

The tools your agent gets

Pandecho's MCP server exposes five read-only tools. Your agent picks the right one automatically — you just ask in plain English.

Tool	What it returns
`list_notes`	Your meetings, newest first — title, date, participants.
`get_note`	A full meeting by id (or `"last"`) — your notes, the AI summary, and the transcript.
`search_notes`	Keyword search across titles, notes, summaries, and transcripts.
`get_action_items`	The action items from a meeting (defaults to the most recent).
`get_transcript`	The raw transcript text of a meeting (or `"last"`).

All five are read-only — agents can read your meetings but can never modify or delete them.

Prefer the terminal?

The same surface is available as pandecho-cli — handy for scripts and quick lookups.

$ pandecho-cli list                 # your meetings, newest first
$ pandecho-cli get last             # full notes + summary + transcript
$ pandecho-cli actions              # action items from the latest meeting
$ pandecho-cli search "q3 launch"   # search everything
$ pandecho-cli transcript last      # just the transcript
$ pandecho-cli list --json          # machine-readable output for scripts

Manual setup

If an agent isn't auto-detected (e.g. it isn't installed in a standard location), add Pandecho's MCP server by hand. The server binary lives at /Applications/Pandecho.app/Contents/MacOS/pandecho-notes-mcp.

Claude Desktop / Claude Code (JSON)

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (Desktop) or ~/.claude.json (Code):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pandecho": {
      "command": "/Applications/Pandecho.app/Contents/MacOS/pandecho-notes-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Codex (TOML)

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.pandecho]
command = "/Applications/Pandecho.app/Contents/MacOS/pandecho-notes-mcp"

OpenClaw / Hermes (CLI)

$ openclaw mcp add pandecho --command /Applications/Pandecho.app/Contents/MacOS/pandecho-notes-mcp
$ hermes   mcp add pandecho --command /Applications/Pandecho.app/Contents/MacOS/pandecho-notes-mcp

Heads up: after any manual change, restart the agent so it loads the new server.

🔒 Local by design

The MCP server and CLI read your meeting files directly on your machine and answer through your own agent. There's no Pandecho cloud, no export, and no upload — your meetings stay yours.