MCP server
Ask your assistant about your meetings.
nchova transcribes your calls on the Mac and hands them to your AI assistant through a local MCP server. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the rest search what was said, recap your week, tell you who owes what, and save notes back. There is no server of ours in between: there are none.
In short
- One click
- Settings › Assistants › Connect: nchova adds itself to your assistant’s configuration, and backs up any file it changes.
- Meetings, never dictation
- the assistant reads transcripts and notes; what you dictate stays out of its reach.
- Free
- the MCP server comes with the free version, forever, Pro or not.
Connect it once
nchova finds the assistants on your Mac and sets each one up with a click. Apps it cannot write to get a setup to paste.
Then ask
The assistant picks the tools by itself: a recap of the week, the tasks people took on, everything about one person, the words someone said.
The ten tools
What nchova’s MCP server offers. The assistant reads their descriptions and chooses.
list_meetings
lists meetings.
search_transcripts
searches transcripts.
get_meeting
reads a meeting.
get_live_meeting
follows the one in progress.
digest
recaps a week or a month.
list_action_items
who has to do what.
find_person
everything about one person.
search_notes
searches the notes.
save_meeting_notes
saves notes and action items.
update_meeting
fixes titles and voices.
How it works, and what goes where
The MCP server is a small program inside nchova. Your assistant starts it on your Mac and talks to it through a pipe (stdio): no network, no port, no token to leak. It reads the same database the app writes, so it answers even with nchova closed.
It shares meetings only: transcripts, notes, action items, titles and the names of voices. Your dictations are never in it, and neither is the audio, which nchova does not keep.
What happens next is up to the assistant. Claude, ChatGPT and the other cloud assistants send what they read to their own models, as they do with anything you paste into a chat. A local model, in LM Studio for example, keeps it all on the Mac.
Connect your assistant
- Download nchova and let it transcribe a meeting or two.
- Open Settings › Assistants. The assistants on your Mac come first.
- Click Connect next to yours. nchova adds itself to the assistant’s configuration: it saves a copy of a file before changing it, or, for Claude Code and Codex, runs their own command.
- Do what nchova says next (for Claude: quit and reopen it), then ask about your meetings.
- For Perplexity, Raycast, Zed, Goose and any other app that speaks MCP, Copy setup puts on the clipboard what to paste.
Questions about MCP
- 00:00:04 You What is MCP?
- 00:00:09 nchova The Model Context Protocol: an open standard that lets AI assistants use tools and data on your computer. nchova speaks it, so any assistant that does can read your meetings.
- 00:00:27 You Which assistants work?
- 00:00:32 nchova Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT and Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI and LM Studio connect with a click; Perplexity, Raycast, Zed and Goose with a setup to paste; and any app that runs a local (stdio) MCP server.
- 00:00:50 You Do I need Pro?
- 00:00:55 nchova No. The MCP server is free, forever.
- 00:01:13 You Can the assistant change or delete my meetings?
- 00:01:18 nchova It can save notes and action items, which take the place of the ones the meeting had, even notes you edited, and fix a meeting’s title, its attendees or the names of its voices. It cannot delete a meeting or touch its transcript, and a title or a voice’s name you set yourself is never overwritten.
- 00:01:36 You Does it work during a meeting?
- 00:01:41 nchova Yes: the assistant can read what has been said so far, or only the last few minutes.
- 00:01:59 You Do my meetings go to nchova?
- 00:02:04 nchova There is nowhere for them to go: nchova has no servers. The assistant talks to nchova on your Mac.