Tested · 2026-10-16

AI meeting notes: transcript to minutes and action items

Give Claude Code a meeting transcript and it extracts conclusions, action items, and owners. If you only have audio, transcribe it first. Output is Markdown minutes: conclusions, an action table (task, owner, due date), and risks with mitigations.

✓A product weekly transcript produced minutes in 22 seconds (2026-10-16, Claude Code 2.1.300)
✓3 conclusions, 4 action items (each with owner and due date), 2 risks with mitigations
✓The transcript only said things like “Wednesday”; it inferred dates from the meeting date and put them in parentheses

Tested minutes.md: the action table includes owners and due dates.

Set up once: point the global config at AICodeWith

Do this once; every use case reuses it. Other tools: integration guides. Where to get a key: Get an API key.

1. Install Claude Code
Follow the official Claude Code install docs. You are done when claude --version prints a version number.
2. Create a key and edit the global config
Sign in, open the dashboard **Key Management** page, and create a key. If you are not sure where that is, see Get an API key.
Open the global config ~/.claude/settings.json and set the Base URL and key under env:
~/.claude/settings.json
```
{
  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://api.aicodewith.ai",
    "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "sk-YOUR_KEY"
  }
}
```
Do not add /v1 at the end of the Base URL. Reopen the terminal, run claude, and a normal reply means the connection works.

Tested steps

1. Prepare the transcript
Save the transcript as meeting.txt in a folder.
If you only have audio, transcribe it with your usual tool first. We did not test speech-to-text.

2. One command for minutes

In that folder run:

bash

claude -p 'Read the meeting transcript meeting.txt and write Markdown minutes with three sections: ## Conclusions, ## Action items (table: Task | Owner | Due date), ## Risks and mitigations. Write them to minutes.md.' --allowedTools 'Read' 'Write'

The terminal may print an English notice about auto mode and api.aicodewith.ai. You can ignore it; it does not affect the result.

3. Check, then send
Open minutes.md and check inferred dates, action items, and owners before you send it to attendees.

Troubleshooting

Due dates are wrong: Put the meeting date in the command, for example “the meeting date is 2026-10-12”.
401 or request failed: Check that the key is complete and the Base URL is https://api.aicodewith.ai (no /v1). Reopen the terminal after you change it.

FAQ

Can it process meeting audio directly?

This page tested a transcript. Audio needs a transcription tool first. We did not test that step.

Will it invent action items nobody said?

In our run every action item came from the transcript; one was split out of a spoken line and the reply said so. Still check before sending.

What format is the output?

A Markdown file minutes.md. You can paste it into Feishu, Notion, or any Markdown-friendly doc.

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Set up once: point the global config at AICodeWith

1. Install Claude Code

2. Create a key and edit the global config