Your coding assistant already knows the project. Let it prepare the meeting

Take a graduate student in the last month of a project. The repository holds the code, a plan for the weekly lab meeting in lab/plan.md, and a folder with the slides and draft script for Thursday’s final presentation. The job description for next Tuesday’s interview sits in the downloads folder. Claude Code has read most of this already, because it has been working in the same folder all term.

Copying that material into a meeting app by hand is exactly the chore Anthropic’s documentation names as the moment to connect a tool. When you catch yourself pasting data from another system into a chat, connect the system, and the assistant can read it and act on it directly (Anthropic). Prepped works this way with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any other assistant that speaks MCP.

What MCP is

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard that lets an AI application reach outside systems, such as files, databases, search engines and calendars, through small programs called MCP servers. Its documentation compares it to a USB-C port, one plug that fits many devices (MCP). Claude Code and Codex each add an MCP server with one command (Anthropic, OpenAI). Prepped ships its own server, so the assistant you use for code can also create meetings, add their material and prepare them in your Prepped account.

Connecting takes one click

With the Prepped desktop app, open Settings, choose Connections and find Use Prepped from Claude Code, Codex and others. The section lists Claude Code, Codex and Cursor when they are on your computer. Select Connect beside the one you use, then restart it or open a new session in it. Prepped adds itself to the tool’s own MCP settings and runs the server from inside the app, so there is nothing else to install and the tool’s settings hold no key.

Any other agent connects itself. Ask it to run npx -y prepped connect. The command recognizes the tool that runs it, from Antigravity and Gemini CLI to Windsurf, Kiro and Trae, and names the connection after it. Prepped shows the request with the tool’s name, its mark and a short code. When the agent shows the same code, select Allow. The agent adds the server to its own settings, and you restart it once (npm). This route needs Node.js 20 or newer. With Prepped on the web, Settings, Connections gives each tool the command to run.

Asking for a meeting

Once connected, the assistant knows Prepped’s meeting types and the details each one asks for, so you can ask the way you would ask a colleague. The student from the opening asks Claude Code for a weekly lab meeting on Fridays at 2 pm where she reports on her experiments, with the plan from lab/plan.md. Claude Code reads the plan, creates the series with its repeat, day and time in her computer’s time zone, and attaches the file.

The final presentation takes one more sentence and saves the most typing. She asks for a fifteen-minute presentation on Thursday at 11, with the slides and the draft script from the talk folder and the repository as the project, and mentions that her teammate Maya gives slides 1 to 9. Prepped keeps the text and speaker notes of every slide, the draft script and the repository, and the talk outline records Maya as the presenter of her sections, so Prepped writes nothing for the student to say there.

For the interview she points Claude Code at her resume and the job description, and asks what preparing the meeting would cost before anything starts. Planned meetings with material prepare themselves, and the assistant can check the preparation’s status and read the answers it produced. It can also turn the switches people change most, such as the live translation and its language, speech recognition, hiding from screen sharing and automatic preparation. After a meeting it can read what the meeting left, the transcript, the notes and the questions asked, which puts a follow-up email or a list of next steps one request away.

What stays with you

A new connection can read and change your meetings and nothing more. Paid work, such as preparing a meeting or drafting a talk’s outline, starts only when Can spend credits is on in that tool’s row, and you can switch it off and on at any time. Prepped marks its paid operations and asks the assistant to tell you what they cost and to get your agreement first, and a preparation never spends more than the limit it is given. Signing in, payments and a meeting in progress always stay with you in the app.

Each connected tool has its own row with its mark and the last time it worked with Prepped. Disconnect revokes its key, and the desktop app also removes Prepped from the tool’s settings. Whatever the tool set up stays in your account.

Habits that help

Point the assistant at files and folders by their paths. It reads them before attaching them and can tell you what it found. At the end, ask it to list what it created, so one look at the meeting is enough to check the details. When the preparation is ready, read the sentences in [square brackets]. They are claims about you that your material does not support, and the assistant has no way of knowing whether they are true.

The meeting itself still happens in Prepped, on Windows, on a Mac or in the browser, with the overlay showing answers drawn from the material your assistant gathered. Our guide to presentations and defenses shows what Prepped does with the slides and the script during the talk.