Minutes Setup

by silverstein

Minutes Setup is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by silverstein in minutes.

1.4K stars154 forkson silverstein/minutesAdded 2026/08/19+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/19

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Install Minutes Setup

Copy Minutes Setup into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/silverstein/minutes/tree/main/.opencode/skills/minutes-setup ~/.claude/skills/minutes-setup

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/silverstein/minutes.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .opencode/skills/minutes-setup/SKILL.md in silverstein/minutes
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/minutes-setup
Collection: One of 23 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Minutes Setup does

Minutes Setup walks through first-time installation of Minutes, including downloading a whisper model, creating directories, and configuring audio input for recording meetings. Use it when the user asks to set up, install, or get started with Minutes.

Minutes Setup is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Minutes Setup comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai, claude, mcp and meeting-notes.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Skill Path

Before running helper scripts or opening bundled references, set:

export MINUTES_SKILLS_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.opencode/skills"
export MINUTES_SKILL_ROOT="$MINUTES_SKILLS_ROOT/minutes-setup"

/minutes-setup

Walk the user through first-time Minutes setup, step by step.

Setup steps

1. Check current state first

Run the verify skill's script to see what's already done:

bash "$MINUTES_SKILLS_ROOT/minutes-verify/scripts/verify-setup.sh"

Skip any steps that already pass.

2. Build the binary (if needed)

cd ~/Sites/minutes
export CXXFLAGS="-I$(xcrun --show-sdk-path)/usr/include/c++/v1"
cargo build --release

The binary lands at target/release/minutes. The user should add it to their PATH or create a symlink.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Minutes Setup provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/minutes-setup

Frequently asked about Minutes Setup

What else does silverstein publish alongside Minutes Setup?
Minutes Setup is one of 23 skills that DirSkills catalogs from silverstein/minutes, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Minutes Brief, Minutes Brief and Minutes Cleanup. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Minutes Setup does, and is maintained by silverstein in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the silverstein/minutes page.
How does Minutes Setup compare to other Automation skills?
Minutes Setup ranks #616 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Minutes Setup against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.