Granola MCP 2.0 adds transcript search and write tools

Granola released MCP 2.0, an update to the connector that lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients work from your meetings. It adds Smart Search across transcripts and tools that let an agent write to Granola.

Smart Search (search_transcripts) returns the transcript passages that answer a question, with timestamps and a citation back to the meeting, so the agent doesn't have to load whole transcripts. Granola says that makes it 44% faster and uses 85% fewer tokens. When exact wording matters, the agent can still open the full transcript with get_meeting_transcript. A new search_meetings tool finds meetings by topic, keyword, date, attendee or company. Before, agents had list_meetings, which filtered by date and nothing else.

With the write tools, an agent can add an agenda or prep to the start or end of a meeting's private notes, regenerate a summary with one of your templates, which takes about 30 to 90 seconds, and create folders, rename them and file notes into them. Granola says this works for one meeting or hundreds. The release also counts the Agent Brief that launched a day earlier.

Granola's own evals, run on 69 questions about a test workspace, show agents finding the key facts 79% of the time, up from 40% in September. Finding meetings went from 76% to 99%, action items from 24% to 88%, meeting prep from 32% to 87%, and research across meetings from 25% to 60%.

Transcript search, transcript reads and the write tools are on paid plans only. The free plan covers notes from the last 30 days. Agents should only write when you ask, transcripts are never edited, and Enterprise admins can turn the write tools off. A note an agent adds to a folder becomes visible to everyone with access to that folder.