Connect Wave to Claude Code

Two terminal commands put your meeting transcripts and action items inside Claude Code — or reuse the Wave connector you already added to Claude.

Connect Wave AI to Claude Code and it can read your meetings while it works on your code — pull the transcript of a planning call, turn a customer's exact words into a ticket, or update a doc to match what was decided. Setup is two commands.

Connect

In your terminal, run:

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user wave https://mcp.wave.co

--scope user makes Wave available in every project. Leave it off and Wave is added to the current project only.

claude mcp login wave

A browser window opens on Wave. Sign in with the account you record with, and you're done. (Inside a session you can also type /mcp, choose wave, and select Authenticate.)

Ask, for example: "Read the transcript of yesterday's planning call and update the roadmap section of the README to match what we decided."

Already connected Wave in Claude? If you're signed in to Claude Code with your Claude subscription, the connector you added at claude.ai shows up in Claude Code automatically with no commands needed. Type /mcp to check.

Or install the Wave plugin

The Wave plugin connects Wave and adds six skills: weekly recap, meeting prep, follow-up email, action items to tasks, what a person said, and decisions log. Inside Claude Code, run:

/plugin marketplace add mohrer-associates/wave-agent-plugins
/plugin install wave-ai@wave-ai-plugins

Then type /mcp, choose wave, and select Authenticate to sign in. Use the plugin or the claude mcp add commands above, not both, or you'll see two Wave entries.

Import a recording from your computer

Claude Code can upload a local audio or video file to Wave, which then transcribes and summarizes it like any other import. Ask, for example: "Import ~/Downloads/interview.m4a into Wave and give me the summary when it's ready." This needs the separate import permission, which you approve on a Wave consent screen, and it uses your import allowance. See importing recordings for the details.

If Claude Code says it can't import, connect with a personal access token instead. Create one under Settings → Integrations → Connected AI apps → Advanced: personal access tokens with Allow importing recordings ticked, then run claude mcp remove wave and:

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user wave https://mcp.wave.co --header "Authorization: Bearer wave_mcp_..."

Try asking

"List my meetings from this week and pull the transcript of the design review."
"Find the customer call where they described the export bug and quote exactly what they said."
"Take the action items from today's standup and create a task list in TODO.md."
"Summarize the meeting Sam shared with me."

Wave's six ready-made prompts, such as weekly recap and decisions log, are in the / menu too.

Claude Code can search and read your sessions, save action items, edit a session's title, notes, summary, and tags, file sessions into folders, and share a session when you ask it to. It can't delete a recording or change a transcript.

If it doesn't work

/mcp shows "Needs authentication". Run claude mcp login wave and finish the sign-in in the browser it opens.
Wave finds no sessions. You signed in to a Wave account with no recordings — usually a different Google or Apple login. Run claude mcp logout wave, then claude mcp login wave and pick the right account.
Wave isn't listed. You added it without --scope user while you were in another project folder. Add it again with --scope user.

Disconnect

claude mcp remove wave

This also deletes the stored sign-in.

You can also disconnect it from Wave's side: on app.wave.co, go to Settings → Integrations → Connected AI apps and select Disconnect next to Claude Code. Access stops right away.

Using Claude on the web or desktop instead? See Connect Wave to Claude. For what any connected tool can and can't do, see the Wave Agents toolkit.