DeskTime MCP for AI Agents. Track labor costs and team availability instantly.
DeskTime MCP helps you manage your entire team's productivity and project cost accounting through natural conversation. Instead of logging into dashboards or spreadsheets, connect this MCP to any AI client to get real-time visibility into who is working, how many hours were logged per task, and whether the current labor spending aligns with project budgets. It gives you full control over workforce data directly within your workflow.
Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access
Create new projects or add specific tasks to existing ones programmatically.
View who is currently online, actively tracking time, and available for immediate work.
Pull productivity data and historical metrics for entire teams or individual employees.
Access core metadata and employee records to keep your contact list current.
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What AI agents can do with DeskTime MCP: 12 Tools for Workforce Management
These tools allow your agent to perform all necessary CRUD operations on projects, tasks, employee data, and performance metrics.
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Start using DeskTime MCPMark Task Completed
Marks a specific task as finished in DeskTime.
Create Project
Adds an entirely new project to your company's records.
Create New Task
Attaches a new task to an existing project.
Remove Project
Deletes a defined project from your workspace.
Get Company Info
Retrieves general and detailed metadata about the company account.
Get Employee Performance
Checks specific productivity metrics for individual employees.
List Online Staff
Generates a list of staff members who are currently logged in and active on the system.
Get Project Details
Pulls detailed information about any given project by its ID or name.
List Employees
Provides a directory listing of all employees within the company account.
List Projects
Retrieves a list of all current projects defined in DeskTime.
Get Productivity Reports
Generates high-level, historical reports on company performance and utilization.
List Project Tasks
Lists all individual tasks associated with a specific project ID.
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The Old Way: Juggling Dashboards and Spreadsheets Solved with Vinkius AI Gateway
Every week, project managers spend hours jumping between the time-tracking dashboard, the HR system, and Excel. You click through tabs just to compile a simple cost report, then you copy names from one sheet into another to check availability. It’s slow, it's tedious, and every manual step introduces a chance for error.
With this MCP, your agent handles that whole sequence in the background. Instead of clicking five times across three different apps, you simply ask: 'What was the average productivity score last month?' You get the answer instantly, pulling all necessary data into one clean conversational response.
DeskTime MCP: Controlling Project Costs and Status
You don't have to manually update task statuses or generate reports. Your agent handles listing the available projects (`list_projects`), then checking associated tasks via `list_project_tasks`, and finally updating progress with a single command.
What changes is that your AI client becomes your dedicated operations coordinator, allowing you to manage resource allocation and billing data through simple conversation.
What your AI can actually do with this
Connecting your company’s time tracking data used to mean juggling multiple apps: a dashboard for reports, an HR system for employee names, and a spreadsheet for budget tracking. Now, you can treat all that complex information like a simple conversation. This MCP lets your agent act as a dedicated workforce operations manager.
You ask questions about team activity—like checking who is currently online or pulling performance metrics for the last quarter—and get immediate answers without clicking through menus. If you're looking to manage this kind of complexity, Vinkius hosts thousands of specialized connectors like this one. You simply tell your AI client what you need done: "Create a new project for Q3 marketing and assign task X." It handles the orchestration, updating records and generating reports based on the underlying DeskTime data.
This is about turning complex labor metrics into actionable commands.
019dd0df-3a21-72e1-b666-39131b34d2f7 Here's how it actually works
The bottom line is that you control all of your team’s time tracking data using simple conversation prompts.
Subscribe to this MCP on Vinkius and retrieve your unique API Key from DeskTime settings.
Connect the key to your preferred AI client (Claude, Cursor, etc.).
Use natural language prompts in your chat interface to command tasks like 'Show me last month's project costs.' and get immediate results.
Who is this actually for?
This MCP is critical for Project Managers, Team Leads, and Operations Directors who are sick of context switching. It's for the person whose job requires knowing exactly how many hours were spent on which deliverable without having to manually export CSV files every Friday.
Updating project statuses, listing all associated tasks, and retrieving task completion reports instantly.
Checking real-time staff availability to coordinate immediate resources and monitor team productivity scores without leaving their messaging tool.
Automating the retrieval of employee directory data or generating company-wide time utilization reports for payroll analysis.
What Changes When You Connect
Stop manually updating task statuses. You can programmatically update records by using the mark_task_completed tool, letting your AI agent handle the workflow update in one command.
Never lose track of who's available again. Use list_online_staff to get a real-time roster of staff members currently logging time so you can coordinate team efforts immediately.
Eliminate spreadsheet hunting for reports. Instead, simply ask your agent to run get_productivity_reports and analyze company performance data on the spot.
Simplify resource planning by using list_employees and get_company_info. Your AI client pulls necessary directory details so you don't have to switch tabs just to verify an email address.
Manage your entire project lifecycle without leaving chat. You can use create_project, then attach work with create_new_task, maintaining a high-fidelity record effortlessly.
See it in action
The End-of-Week Billing Summary
A Project Manager needs to know the total hours logged for 'Client Alpha' and which team members contributed most. They ask their agent, 'What was the labor cost for Client Alpha last week?' The agent uses get_project_details combined with get_productivity_reports to compile a precise summary without opening any dashboards.
Quickly Assigning New Work
A Team Lead realizes they need to track time for a new initiative. They prompt their agent: 'Start a project called 'Q4 Audit' and add tasks for the Finance team.' The MCP runs create_project, then uses list_projects and create_new_task in sequence, getting the work logged immediately.
Checking Team Capacity
An Ops Director needs to know if they can assign a critical task right now. They ask their agent, 'Show me who is currently available.' The MCP uses list_online_staff and confirms real-time availability, allowing the director to immediately reassign work.
Archiving Completed Work
After a major phase finishes, a PM wants to clean up. They prompt their agent: 'Delete the project for the Smith account.' The MCP executes remove_project, ensuring all related metadata is cleaned up and kept accurate.
The honest tradeoffs
What to watch out for, and the recommended way to handle each one.
Over-relying on manual reports
The user downloads a PDF report of employee metrics, prints it out, and has to manually correlate the dates with project budgets in another spreadsheet.
Instead, ask your agent to run get_productivity_reports. It synthesizes that data directly into the chat window for immediate analysis against other figures.
Confusing projects and tasks
The user tries to update a task status by referencing only the project name, leading to ambiguity about which specific task needs attention.
First use list_projects to confirm the right project ID. Then, use list_project_tasks to identify the exact task name before running mark_task_completed.
Forgetting team members' roles
The user assumes everyone is logged in and asks for a full report without knowing who was actually working that day.
Always start by using list_online_staff. This confirms who was actively tracking time, giving you the most accurate picture of current team throughput.
When It Fits, When It Doesn't
Use this MCP if your core problem is synthesizing complex labor data—specifically project costs, task status, and real-time staff availability—into an immediate conversational answer. You need to run reports (get_productivity_reports) or update records (mark_task_completed) using natural language commands.
Don't use this MCP if your problem is simple data storage; for example, if you just need to read a static list of names that never changes, a basic directory connector might suffice. However, if the value comes from checking who is online or updating time logs, this DeskTime MCP is necessary because it connects live operations data directly into the chat flow.
Questions you might have
How do I check current team availability using DeskTime MCP? +
You use the list_online_staff tool. This instantly generates a list of staff members who are currently logged in and actively tracking time, letting you coordinate work right away.
Can I update project costs with DeskTime MCP? +
Yes. By using the get_productivity_reports tool, your agent pulls historical performance metrics, allowing you to analyze team labor spending and correlate it against budget goals.
How do I create a new project with DeskTime MCP? +
You call the create_project tool. This adds the necessary structure to your records, giving you a central location to assign tasks and track costs for that initiative.
What is the best way to check employee performance with DeskTime MCP? +
Use the get_employee_performance tool. It pulls individual productivity metrics so you can assess an employee's output against historical team averages without manual spreadsheet work.
Can I list all my projects using DeskTime MCP? +
Yes, run the list_projects tool. This provides a clean directory of every active and archived project in your system for easy reference.