Set up Claude

1. Turn it on

Settings → Meetings → Live answers → Answered by: Claude Code. To also talk with it, turn on Settings → Voice Assistant with Who answers you: Claude Code.

2. Connect Claude Code

Click Connect Claude Code…. It adds Smalt to Claude Code, installs the /smalt and /smalt-live-assistant skills, and the hook that shows Claude's steps on the pill. Your ~/.claude/settings.json is backed up first.

Or, in a terminal, the installer does the same (and installs or updates Smalt, and connects Claude Desktop if you have it):

curl -fsSL https://getsmalt.com/install.sh | bash

Settings → Voice Assistant shows 1 app connected while a Claude session is using Smalt. In Claude Code, /mcp lists smalt.

3. Talk with it

In your project, in Claude Code:

/smalt

Then talk. What shows on the pill, and how to cut in: Talk with Claude Code.

4. Answers in meetings

Keep Live answers on Claude Code: it reads the live transcript. During a meeting, in Claude Code:

/smalt-live-assistant ~/Notes

The skill spots questions with TypeSafe Jev, so give it your key (how to get one):

export TYPESAFE_API_KEY=your-key

Claude Desktop

The installer adds Smalt to Claude Desktop. To do it by hand: Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smalt": {
      "command": "/Applications/Smalt.app/Contents/MacOS/Smalt",
      "args": ["--mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Quit Claude Desktop (⌘Q) and open it again. In a chat:

Watch my Smalt meeting and answer questions from my notes.

Claude Desktop has no hooks, so its steps don't show on the pill.

Ask without a session

With Claude Code thinking and no /smalt session on, the ask key (⌥⇧) goes to Smalt's own assistant if the cloud model has a key (Set up Smalt). Otherwise the pill says "Run /smalt in Claude Code, or add a cloud key in Cloud".