# How to connect Recall.ai to Hermes Agent (paste one key, 63 tools) > Connect Recall.ai to Hermes with ClawLink: paste your Recall.ai key once and 63 tools work from chat. No MCP server to run, nothing stored on your machine. Web version: https://claw-link.dev/hermes/recallai Most guides for giving Hermes Agent Recall.ai access start with registering your own OAuth app or pasting API keys into env files, then leave the token refresh and tool wiring to you. ClawLink gives Hermes a more practical Recall.ai setup: pair once in the browser and your always-on Hermes agent can act on Recall.ai for you, reading and doing real work on your behalf with no auth, token refresh, or tool wiring to build yourself. **Start here — paste this into Hermes to set up ClawLink:** > Set up ClawLink for Hermes and tell me when it's ready. > 1. Install the plugin: `hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable` > 2. Start pairing with `hermes clawlink begin`. It prints an approval link, so show me the link and stop, don't wait. > 3. I'll approve it in my browser, then reply "approved". > 4. When I say approved, finish setup: `hermes clawlink finish` > 5. Then run `hermes clawlink test` and tell me whether ClawLink is ready. ## Setup It takes three steps to connect Hermes to Recall.ai. 1. **Install ClawLink** — add the plugin to Hermes Agent once. 2. **Connect Recall.ai** — one-click OAuth in the ClawLink dashboard. 3. **Use it from chat** — ask Hermes Agent in plain English. **Alternative for any agent (no plugin needed):** if the Hermes Agent plugin route isn't available or doesn't work, any AI agent with shell access can use the ClawLink CLI instead: ```bash npx -y @useclawlink/cli login # sign in via browser — no API key to paste npx -y @useclawlink/cli connect recallai # connect Recall.ai (browser OAuth) npx -y @useclawlink/cli actions recallai # list available actions npx -y @useclawlink/cli run recallai --input '' # execute (add --confirm for writes) ``` ### Install by command The prompt above walks Hermes through this. By hand, it is four commands and a browser approval: ```bash hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable hermes clawlink begin # prints an approval link — open it and approve hermes clawlink finish # after approving in the browser hermes clawlink test ``` Then connect Recall.ai in the [ClawLink dashboard](https://claw-link.dev/dashboard) — paste your Recall.ai API key once. Verify the connection by asking Hermes: > Create it in Recall.ai for me, then confirm the important fields before you finish. ### Using a different agent? The Hermes plugin is one client of ClawLink's MCP server. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any agent that can run a shell command pairs with the same ClawLink account through the CLI: ```bash npx -y @useclawlink/cli login ``` `login` opens the same browser approval and stores a credential locally. Once Recall.ai is connected in the dashboard, that agent calls the same 63 Recall.ai tools over MCP. Full setup for MCP clients and shell agents: [connect apps to any AI agent](https://claw-link.dev/learn/connect-apps-to-any-ai-agent). ## Recall.ai MCP for Hermes Looking for a Recall.ai MCP server for Hermes Agent? ClawLink connects Recall.ai to Hermes Agent and exposes 63 Recall.ai tools your agent can call over [MCP](https://claw-link.dev/learn/what-is-an-mcp-server), with [hosted auth](https://claw-link.dev/learn/oauth-for-ai-agents) and nothing to run or maintain yourself. Using OpenClaw instead? The [OpenClaw Recall.ai integration](https://claw-link.dev/openclaw/recallai) works the same way. ## What the Hermes Agent Recall.ai integration can do 63 Recall.ai tools are ready for Hermes Agent once the account is connected. The 30 below are the ones people reach for most; your agent can call all 63. ### 30 of 63 Recall.ai tools for Hermes | Tool | What it does | |---|---| | **Create bot** `recallai_create_bot` | Create a new bot to join and record a meeting. | | **Create calendar** `recallai_create_calendar` | Tool to create a new calendar integration with Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook. Use when you need to connect a calendar platform to enable automatic bot scheduling for meetings. | | **Create calendar authenticate** `recallai_create_calendar_authenticate` | Tool to generate an authentication token for calendar APIs, scoped to the user. Use when you need to authenticate calendar operations for a specific user. | | **Create google login** `recallai_create_google_login` | Tool to create a new Google Login credential within a login group. Use when you need to add a new Google account that bots can use to authenticate and join Google Meet meetings. | | **Create google login group** `recallai_create_google_login_group` | Tool to create a new Google Login Group for managing bot authentication. Use when you need to create a group of Google login credentials that bots can use to join Google Meet meetings. | | **Create meeting direct connect** `recallai_create_meeting_direct_connect` | Tool to create a Meeting Direct Connect for Google Meet or Zoom. Use when you need to connect directly to a meeting platform's media stream via Google Meet Media API or Zoom RTMS. | | **Create sdk upload** `recallai_create_sdk_upload` | Create a new Desktop SDK upload. Use this to generate an upload token that can be used with the Recall.ai Desktop SDK to upload recordings directly from desktop applications. | | **Create zoom oauth app** `recallai_create_zoom_oauth_app` | Tool to create a new Zoom OAuth App integration with Recall.ai. Use when you need to configure Zoom OAuth credentials to enable bots to join Zoom meetings. | | **List audio mixed** `recallai_list_audio_mixed` | List audio mixed artifacts from Recall.ai recordings | | **List audio separate** `recallai_list_audio_separate` | List audio separation artifacts from recordings | | **List bot screenshots** `recallai_list_bot_screenshots` | List all screenshots captured by a bot during a meeting | | **List bots** `recallai_list_bots` | List all bots in your Recall.ai workspace | | **List calendar events** `recallai_list_calendar_events` | Get a list of calendar events from connected calendars | | **List calendar meetings** `recallai_list_calendar_meetings` | List all calendar meetings for the authenticated calendar user | | **List calendar users** `recallai_list_calendar_users` | List all calendar users created for the account | | **List calendars** `recallai_list_calendars` | Retrieve a list of calendars integrated with Recall.ai | | **List chat messages** `recallai_list_chat_messages` | Get list of chat messages read by the bot in the meeting(excluding messages sent by the bot | | **List google login groups** `recallai_list_google_login_groups` | Retrieve a list of all Google Login Groups in your Recall.ai workspace | | **List google logins** `recallai_list_google_logins` | Retrieve a list of all Google Logins in your Recall.ai workspace | | **List meeting direct connect** `recallai_list_meeting_direct_connect` | List all Meeting Direct Connect instances in your Recall.ai workspace | | **List meeting metadata** `recallai_list_meeting_metadata` | List meeting metadata from Recall.ai recordings | | **List participant events** `recallai_list_participant_events` | List participant events artifacts from recorded meetings | | **List realtime endpoint** `recallai_list_realtime_endpoint` | List realtime endpoints from Recall.ai | | **List recording** `recallai_list_recording` | List recordings from Recall.ai | | **List sdk uploads** `recallai_list_sdk_uploads` | Get a paginated list of all Desktop SDK uploads in your Recall.ai workspace | | **List slack teams** `recallai_list_slack_teams` | List all Slack team integrations | | **List transcript** `recallai_list_transcript` | List transcripts from Recall.ai recordings | | **List video mixed** `recallai_list_video_mixed` | List video mixed artifacts from recorded meetings | | **List video separate** `recallai_list_video_separate` | List video separate artifacts from Recall.ai recordings | | **List zoom meetings to credentials** `recallai_list_zoom_meetings_to_credentials` | Retrieve mappings from Zoom Meeting IDs to Zoom OAuth Credentials | ## Example prompts **Create Bot** > Create it in Recall.ai for me, then confirm the important fields before you finish. **Create Calendar** > Create it in Recall.ai for me, then confirm the important fields before you finish. **Create Calendar Authenticate** > Create it in Recall.ai for me, then confirm the important fields before you finish. **Create Google Login** > Create it in Recall.ai for me, then confirm the important fields before you finish. ## ClawLink vs. building it yourself The alternative to ClawLink is usually manual API key setup plus your own token handling, permission troubleshooting, and tool plumbing for Hermes Agent. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want Recall.ai working from chat. | | Manual | ClawLink | |---|---|---| | **Credential handling** | Collect, validate, store, and rotate the Recall.ai API key yourself, then make sure every tool call uses the right account. | Users complete the hosted ClawLink setup once and the connected Recall.ai account becomes available to the agent without you building credential management. | | **Ongoing maintenance** | You own refresh logic, permission debugging, environment config, and every provider-specific edge case for Recall.ai. | ClawLink handles the repetitive integration plumbing so your team can focus on the workflow instead of the infrastructure. | | **Agent usability** | You still need to expose the right Recall.ai actions to the runtime in a format your agent can reliably use. | 63 tools for Recall.ai are already exposed through ClawLink, so the agent can read and act from chat immediately. | ## ClawLink vs. Composio Composio also exposes Recall.ai to AI agents. It is developer infrastructure: Python and TypeScript SDKs, an MCP server, and a catalog past 1,000 apps, aimed at teams shipping agent products. ClawLink is built for Hermes Agent users instead. You install the plugin once, connect Recall.ai in the browser, and the 63 tools above work from chat. There is no SDK and no config file, and the Recall.ai key you paste at setup is stored server-side rather than kept in your environment. Choosing between them? Read the full [Composio alternatives](https://claw-link.dev/hub/composio-alternatives) comparison. ### Hermes paired but still can't use Recall.ai Pairing is a two-step handshake: run `hermes clawlink begin`, approve the link in your browser, then run `hermes clawlink finish`. If you ran finish before approving, or the approval link expired, run `hermes clawlink begin` again to get a fresh link. Confirm the plugin was installed with `--enable`, then verify with `hermes clawlink test`. ### Connection succeeds but no tools appear Reconnect Recall.ai from the dashboard, then start a fresh chat if the runtime still has the old tool catalog loaded. ### "Tool schema not loaded yet" error when calling Recall.ai tools Recall.ai tool schemas load on demand the first time a tool runs and are cached after that, so this error usually clears on its own: wait a few seconds and retry the same request. If every Recall.ai call keeps failing with it in a fresh chat, reconnect from the dashboard, and contact support if it still persists — that pattern points to a configuration problem on our side, not something you can fix by reconnecting again. ### Recall.ai returns 403 or "permission denied" on one action while others work Two usual causes. The connected account may not have access to the specific workspace, inbox, store, or project in the request — check that first. If access looks right, the agent may have sent a placeholder value (like "YOUR_ID" or an example id from documentation) instead of a real one: ask it to run a list or search tool first, then retry the action with a real id from those results. Most failures at this stage are one of these two, not ClawLink bugs. ### API key setup works but results look incomplete Double-check that the API key for Recall.ai has the right scopes or account access. A valid key can still be too limited for some reads or writes. ### Is there a Hermes Agent Recall.ai integration? Yes. ClawLink is the fastest way to connect Hermes to Recall.ai: link your Recall.ai account once in the browser and Hermes Agent can call the Recall.ai API through 63 ready-made tools — no custom code or token handling. ### How do I connect Recall.ai to Hermes with ClawLink? Install the plugin with `hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable`, then pair once: run `hermes clawlink begin`, approve the link in your browser, and run `hermes clawlink finish`. Connect Recall.ai in the dashboard and Hermes can use it from the next message — no config files, and the Recall.ai key you paste is stored server-side instead of in your environment. ### How long does it take to connect Recall.ai to Hermes Agent? About two minutes. Sign in, click Connect next to Recall.ai in the dashboard, authenticate, and Hermes Agent can use it from the next chat message. ### Why use ClawLink instead of wiring Recall.ai up myself? The alternative to ClawLink is usually manual API key setup plus your own token handling, permission troubleshooting, and tool plumbing for Hermes Agent. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want Recall.ai working from chat. ### Hermes paired but still can't use Recall.ai Pairing is a two-step handshake: run `hermes clawlink begin`, approve the link in your browser, then run `hermes clawlink finish`. If you ran finish before approving, or the approval link expired, run `hermes clawlink begin` again to get a fresh link. Confirm the plugin was installed with `--enable`, then verify with `hermes clawlink test`. ## Related - [Hermes DataRobot integration](https://claw-link.dev/hermes/datarobot) — DataRobot is a machine learning platform that automates model building, deployment, and monitoring, enabling organizations to derive predictive insights from large datasets. - [Hermes Chatbotkit integration](https://claw-link.dev/hermes/chatbotkit) — ChatBotKit is a platform that enables developers to build and manage AI-powered chatbots, offering comprehensive APIs and SDKs for seamless integration into applications. - [ElevenLabs](https://claw-link.dev/hermes/elevenlabs) — Generate speech and voice cloning