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What is the Grain MCP Server?
Connect your Grain.com account to any AI agent and take full control of your team meeting recordings, automated transcriptions, and AI-powered insights through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Meeting Orchestration — List all meeting recordings in your workspace and retrieve primary entry points for workspace interactions natively
- Live Detail Retrieval — Resolve deep specific objects including transcripts and speaker attribution mapped by recording ID flawlessly
- AI Transcription — Download full text structures with speaker attribution, parsing raw linguistic data to review critical discussions limitlessly
- Contextual Insights — Extract high-level abstract reductions including sentiment mapping, summaries, and key takeaways generated by Grain's ML engines
- Action Item Tracking — Filter targeted follow-up tasks detected automatically within meeting scopes to automate post-call workflows
- Highlight Navigation — Identify curated clips and key moments generated by users within specific timestamps to focus on critical insights
- Global Search — Execute keyword scanning across all meeting recordings to find specific discussions and ranked datasets synchronously
- Asset Ingestion — Ingest remote video streams by passing public URLs for initial structural transformations and AI processing securely
- Team Oversight — Retrieve fully enumerated team maps tracking workspace members and authenticated user profiles natively
How it works
- Subscribe to this server
- Enter your Grain API Key (found in your Grain Workspace Settings)
- Start managing your meeting intelligence from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client
Who is this for?
- Managers & Team Leads — summarize team meetings and track action items without manual note-taking
- Product Managers — audit collaborative discussions and search across meeting transcripts using natural language
- Sales & Success Teams — quickly look up customer call details and verify verbal commitments in real-time
- Operations Teams — monitor team knowledge distribution and verify workspace member directories through the chat interface
Built-in capabilities (12)
Extract all action items identified from a recording
Retrieve the authenticated Grain user profile
Retrieve AI-generated insights from a recording
Retrieve full details of a specific meeting recording
Retrieve the full timestamped transcript of a meeting with speaker names
List all highlights (curated clips) from a recording
List all meeting recordings in the Grain workspace
List all clips that have been shared from the workspace
List all tags used across recordings and highlights
List all members of the Grain workspace
Search across all meeting recordings by keyword
Upload an external video URL for processing by Grain
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Grain to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 12 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
Grain in Claude Desktop
Why run Grain with Vinkius?
The Grain connection runs on our fully managed, secure cloud infrastructure. We handle the hosting, maintenance, and security so you don't have to deal with servers or code. All 12 tools are ready to work instantly without any complex setup.
You stay in complete control of your data. Your AI only accesses the information you approve, keeping your sensitive passwords and private details completely safe. Plus, with automatic optimizations, your AI works faster and more efficiently.
* Every connection is hosted and maintained by Vinkius. We handle the security, updates, and infrastructure so you don't have to write code or manage servers. See our infrastructure
Over 4,000 integrations ready for AI agents
Explore a vast library of pre-built integrations, optimized and ready to deploy.
Connect securely in under 30 seconds
Generate tokens to authenticate and link external services in a single step.
Complete visibility into every agent action
Audit live requests, latency, success rates, and active security compliance policies.
Optimize spending and track token ROI
Analyze real-time token consumption and cost metrics detailed by connection.
Explore our live AI Agents Analytics dashboard to see it all working
This dashboard is included when you connect Grain using Vinkius. You will never be left in the dark about what your AI agents are doing with your tools.
Grain and 4,000+ other AI tools. No hosting, no code, ready to use.
Professionals who connect Grain to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to write code, manage servers, or worry about security. Everything is pre-configured, secure, and runs automatically in the background.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Ready-to-use MCPs | Find and configure each manually | 4,000+ MCPs ready to use |
| Connection Setup | Manual coding & server setup | 1-click instant connection |
| Server Hosting | You host it yourself (needs 24/7 uptime) | 100% hosted & managed by Vinkius |
| Security & Privacy | Stored in plaintext config files | Bank-grade encrypted vault |
| Activity Visibility | Blind execution (no logs or tracking) | Live dashboard with real-time logs |
| Cost Control | Runaway AI token spend risk | Automatic budget limits |
| Revoking Access | Must delete files or code to stop | 1-click disconnect button |
How Vinkius secures
Grain for Claude Desktop
Every request between Claude Desktop and Grain is protected by our secure gateway. We automatically keep your sensitive data private, prevent unauthorized access, and let you disconnect instantly at any time.
Frequently asked questions
Can my agent retrieve the AI summary of a specific Grain recording?
Yes. Use the 'get_insights' tool. The agent will fetch high-level abstract reductions including sentiment mapping, key discussion points, and summaries generated by Grain's ML engines natively.
How do I extract follow-up tasks from a meeting via chat?
Use the 'get_action_items' tool. Your agent will filter targeted follow-up tasks detected automatically by Grain within the meeting scope, enabling you to automate your post-call workflows flawlessly.
Can I search for meetings where a specific client was discussed through the agent?
Absolutely. Use the 'search_recordings' tool. Provide the keyword (e.g., client name). The agent will perform keyword scanning across all your meeting history and return ranked results natively.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.
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