> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs-hub.magicmealkits.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Connecting a Plaud account > How to add a Plaud account to the hub so Claude can search your recordings and read their transcripts, notes and highlights. From v0.24.0 the hub connects Plaud. A Plaud account is added the same way a Google account or a Notion workspace is, under **Accounts**, and once it is connected Claude can search the recordings in it and read their transcripts, AI notes and highlights, in the same conversation as your mail and calendar. There is nothing to set up on Plaud's side. No OAuth client to create, no Developer Preview, nothing to turn on in Google Cloud. Plaud signs the hub in itself, with the same account you use in the Plaud app. Plaud's tools only read. Claude can find a recording and read what is in it, but nothing it does through the hub changes, moves or deletes anything in your Plaud account. ## Add the account In the admin screen, open **Accounts**, then **Add account**. Under **Signs in with**, choose **Plaud**. The client fields a Google account shows disappear, because there is nothing to fill in. Give the account a short name, the one you will say to Claude when you want it to look in those recordings: `plaud`, `meetings`. Lowercase letters, numbers, `-` and `_` only. The Add account screen with the Plaud card selected under Signs in with, plaud typed as the account name, and the Add account button Press **Add account**. The hub registers itself with Plaud, which can take a few seconds. The screen says the account has been added. Press **Connect now**. The account added screen with the Connect now button You land on Plaud's own page. Sign in with your Plaud account if you are not already; the page says who you are logged in as at the bottom, with **Switch account** if it is the wrong one. The page is titled **Plaud-MCP wants to access your workspace**, and lists what the hub will be able to read: your name and email, the basic details, audio, transcripts, highlights, summaries and notes of all your recordings. Press **Allow**. Plaud's page titled Plaud-MCP wants to access your Personal workspace, listing the five things it will have permission to read, with Decline and Allow buttons and Logged in as underneath Plaud returns you to the hub with the account marked as **connected**. Claude keeps its own copy of the tool list and does not notice the new account on its own. See [refreshing Claude's tool list](/refresh-tools-list), then ask in a new chat. ## What to ask for Once connected, Claude can list your recent recordings, open one, and read its transcript or its AI note. Ask for things like "what was decided in yesterday's meeting" or "find the recording where we talked about pricing and summarise it", naming the account if you have more than one. The transcript passes through your own hub and through Plaud's MCP service on its way to Claude. The hub does not keep a copy. ## Several Plaud accounts Each Plaud account is its own account on the hub, exactly like a second Google account. Add another, choose Plaud again, and sign in as the other Plaud user on Plaud's page. The account name is what you say to Claude. ## When it needs reconnecting Plaud can end a connection on its side, for example after a long stretch without use, or if you change your Plaud password. The account is then marked as **reconnect required** on the hub. **Reconnect** at the top right of its page goes through the same sign-in as above. An account that has never been connected shows **Connect** in the same place. The plaud account page, marked not connected, with the Connect button at the top right Diagnostics names the account when this is the reason a tool stopped offering it. ## Next * [Accounts and clients](/accounts-and-clients) * [Connecting a Notion workspace](/connect-notion) * [Claude does not see a change you just made](/refresh-tools-list) * [Troubleshooting](/troubleshooting)