source. Capture, import, and summarization are owned by the `meeting_notes`

agent tool and by configured auto-start sources.

Use the CLI when you want to find yesterday's notes, open the Markdown file in

an editor, feed a transcript to another tool, or debug where a session landed on

disk. It does not start or stop capture.

Artifacts live under the OpenClaw state directory:

```text

```

The default state directory is `~/.openclaw`; set `OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR` to use a

different one. The date directory comes from the session start time.

different one. The date directory comes from the session start time, and the

session directory is a safe filesystem segment derived from the session id.

## Commands

openclaw meeting-notes path <session>

openclaw meeting-notes path YYYY-MM-DD/<session>

openclaw meeting-notes path <session> --dir

openclaw meeting-notes path <session> --metadata

openclaw meeting-notes path <session> --transcript

openclaw meeting-notes list --json

openclaw meeting-notes show <session> --json

openclaw meeting-notes path <session> --json

```

- `list`: list stored sessions, date-qualified selector, start time, title, and `summary.md` path.

Default session ids include a timestamp and random suffix; configure fixed

session ids only when they are unique within the day.

## Output

`list` prints one session per line:

```text

2026-05-22/standup 2026-05-22T09:00:00.000Z Weekly standup /Users/alex/.openclaw/meeting-notes/2026-05-22/standup/summary.md

```

The output is tab-separated. The columns are selector, start time, title, and

summary path. The selector is the safest value to pass back to `show` or `path`.

`list --json` prints objects with:

- `sessionId`

- `selector`

- `date`

- `title`

- `startedAt`

- `stoppedAt`

- `source`

- `path`

- `summaryPath`

- `hasSummary`

`show --json` returns the stored session metadata, selector, session directory,

summary path, and summary Markdown text. `path --json` returns the selected path

and whether that file exists.

## Many meetings per day

Meeting Notes groups sessions by date, then by session id. Ten meetings on one

day become ten sibling folders:

```text

~/.openclaw/meeting-notes/2026-05-22/

meeting-2026-05-22T09-00-00-000Z-a1b2c3d4/

meeting-2026-05-22T10-30-00-000Z-b2c3d4e5/

standup/

```

Use default generated ids for most automation. Use a fixed id such as `standup`

only when the same id will not be used twice on the same date.

## Missing summaries

Live sessions write `summary.md` when the session stops. Imported transcripts

write `summary.md` immediately after import. A session can still appear in

`list` without a summary when capture is active, a provider failed during stop,

or metadata was written before any utterances arrived.

Use `path <session> --transcript` to inspect the append-only transcript, and use

the `meeting_notes` tool action `summarize` to regenerate the Markdown summary.

See [Meeting Notes](/plugins/meeting-notes) for configuration, auto-start, and

source-provider details.