Granola AI MCP Server

Official Granola AI MCP server enabling AI agents to interact with Granola — the AI-powered meeting notes application — retrieving meeting notes and transcripts, searching past meetings, and integrating Granola's automatically structured meeting knowledge into agent-driven productivity and meeting follow-up workflows.

Evaluated Mar 06, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent

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⚙ Agent Friendliness

/ 100

Can an agent use this?

🔒 Security

/ 100

Is it safe for agents?

⚡ Reliability

/ 100

Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality

Documentation

Error Messages

Auth Simplicity

Rate Limits

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement

100

Auth Strength

Scope Granularity

Dep. Hygiene

Secret Handling

HTTPS. API token. Official MCP. Meeting notes are sensitive.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA

Version Stability

Breaking Changes

Error Recovery

Best When

A Granola user wants AI agents to access their meeting history — retrieving past decisions, action items, and discussions from structured meeting notes.

Avoid When

You don't use Granola or prefer other meeting note tools.

Use Cases

• Retrieving meeting notes from past discussions from research agents
• Searching for decisions made in previous meetings from follow-up agents
• Extracting action items and commitments from meeting records from task agents
• Building context from recent meetings for current work from planning agents
• Summarizing project meeting history from status update agents
• Finding meeting participants and discussion context from relationship agents

Not For

• Teams not using Granola for meeting notes
• Real-time meeting transcription (Granola processes after meeting)
• Teams using Otter.ai, Fireflies, or other meeting tools

Interface

REST API

Yes

GraphQL

gRPC

MCP Server

Yes ↗

SDK

Webhooks

Authentication

Methods: api_key

OAuth: No Scopes: No

Granola API token required. Available from Granola app settings. Mac application must be installed and running.

Pricing

Model: freemium

Free tier: Yes

Requires CC: No

Official MCP from granola-inc. Granola app subscription required for active use. Free tier available.

Agent Metadata

Pagination

cursor

Idempotent

Full

Retry Guidance

Not documented

Known Gotchas

⚠ Granola Mac app required — no Windows or web-only option for MCP
⚠ Meeting data must be actively captured by Granola during meetings
⚠ Official MCP from granola-inc — well-maintained
⚠ Meeting notes may contain sensitive business discussions
⚠ Granola requires microphone access — privacy consideration
⚠ macOS only for now — limits team adoption

Alternatives

otter-mcp fireflies-mcp notion-mcp

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.