Granola Sync

OBJECTIVE: Incrementally pull fresh meetings/calls from Granola into the vault (summary + full transcript + participants + a calendar match), on demand. Idempotent: the script downloads only what is new or changed (state.json: note id → updated_at).

CONTEXT:

• Transport: the official Granola public API https://public-api.granola.ai/v1 (List Notes / Get Note ?include=transcript; page_size 0 → look into it; usually network or 429 (the script retries by itself).

1. If new>0 — report the list of fresh meetings (titles/dates from the state or the new files).
2. Distill (if new>0): python $IMPORTS_ROOT/granola/call_distill.py — it breaks each new call into Commitments/Facts/Objections/Alpha with quotes → 04-Projects\granola-meetings\_distilled\ + commitments.jsonl. Counters: DONE distilled=M commitments=C errors=Z. (The nightly twin is the "Granola Call Distill" task at 03:50; it also eats the Fireflies raw files.)
3. The RAG reindex picks it up overnight ([[reindex-routine]]); after the FIRST big backfill, run python $IMPORTS_ROOT/brain_embed_update.py manually. ⚠️ _distilled is not in the curated index yet (04-Projects is the evidence layer) — closed by task RUSL-1 (layer: essence).

CONSTRAINTS:

• Windows cp1252: do not print non-ASCII to stdout (the script is already ASCII-only).
• INCREMENTAL ONLY — never delete state.json (it would re-download everything).
• Provenance: origin: mixed, authored_by: hybrid — NOT #anton-original (someone else's speech).
• Tier-2: nothing goes outside; API reads and vault writes only.
• A 401/403 from the API means the key was revoked: create a new one in the Granola desktop app (Settings → Connectors → Personal API keys, scopes Personal+Public) and update granola.env. I can do this myself through computer-use (verified 2026-07-02).

OUTPUT: the new/updated/errors counters + the period; if empty, "no new meetings". Finish with an "In plain words" recap.

RELATION (do not duplicate): the Fireflies rail (auto-recording, real speaker names) = skill [[fireflies-sync]]; access and history = memory [[granola-mcp-integration]]; the architecture decision = the vault note decision-granola-extraction-official-api; the post-call follow-up SOP = memory [[call-followup-group-sop]] (a separate pipeline); the FAAA sync goes the other way (finished follow-ups out of Telegram).

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About & contact

Built and battle-tested at Palo Alto AI Research Lab — a fleet of Claude Code machines running 24/7 as a second brain and synthetic cofounder. Every skill here survived real production use before publication.

• 📦 All 101 skills: https://github.com/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit
• 👤 Author: Anton Dziatkovskii — Telegram @tonydzi · WhatsApp +1 341 222 9178 · X @TonyStef_
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• Author: tonydzi
• Source: tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit
• License: MIT

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