How do I get an Everhour API Key?

Log in to your Everhour account, navigate to your user profile settings (top right), and click on **API**. You can find or generate your unique API Key there.

Can the agent start a new timer?

This integration currently focuses on listing and auditing projects, tasks, and time entries. Starting or stopping live timers should be performed via the Everhour browser extension or mobile app.

Does the integration show real-time budget usage?

Yes, you can use the list_projects_within_budget tool to retrieve current budget utilization rates and identify projects that are approaching their limits.

Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server for Claude Desktop 10 tools — connect in under 2 minutes

Name: Everhour Time Tracking
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Claude Desktop is Anthropic's native application for interacting with Claude AI models on macOS and Windows. It was the first consumer application to ship with built-in MCP support, making it the reference implementation for the Model Context Protocol standard.

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Classic Setup·json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everhour-time-tracking": {
      // Your Vinkius token — get it at cloud.vinkius.com
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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About Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server

Integrate Everhour, the powerful time tracking and project management software, directly into your AI workflow. Manage your projects and tasks, track real-time time entries and team productivity, monitor project budgets and billing status, and oversee your entire team's workload using natural language.

Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Everhour Time Tracking to your AI workflow. Add the Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 10 tools in the chat interface — ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.

What you can do

Project Oversight — List and retrieve detailed information, budgets, and status for all your tracked projects.
Time Intelligence — Monitor team time records, resolving task IDs, durations, and active user timers in real-time.
Budget Management — Access and monitor project budgets, identifying utilization rates and identifying projects at risk of exceeding limits.
Productivity Auditing — Retrieve high-level summaries of recent time entries, task completion, and organizational account health instantly.

The Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server exposes 10 tools through the Vinkius. Connect it to Claude Desktop in under two minutes — no API keys to rotate, no infrastructure to provision, no vendor lock-in. Your configuration, your data, your control.

How to Connect Everhour Time Tracking to Claude Desktop via MCP

Follow these steps to integrate the Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server with Claude Desktop.

Open Claude Desktop Settings

Go to Settings → Developer → Edit Config to open claude_desktop_config.json

Add the MCP Server

Paste the configuration above into the mcpServers section

Restart Claude Desktop

Close and reopen Claude Desktop to load the new server

Start using Everhour Time Tracking

Look for the 🔌 icon in the chat — your 10 tools are now available

Why Use Claude Desktop with the Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server

Claude Desktop by Anthropic provides unique advantages when paired with Everhour Time Tracking through the Model Context Protocol.

Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client — it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available

Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface

Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions

Enterprise-grade security with local config storage — your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to the Vinkius Edge network

Everhour Time Tracking + Claude Desktop Use Cases

Practical scenarios where Claude Desktop combined with the Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server delivers measurable value.

Interactive data exploration: ask Claude to query DNS records, look up WHOIS data, and cross-reference results in a single conversation

Ad-hoc security audits: type a domain name and let Claude enumerate subdomains, check DNS history, and flag configuration anomalies — all through natural language

Executive briefings: generate comprehensive domain intelligence reports by asking Claude to compile findings into a formatted summary

Learning and training: new team members can explore API capabilities conversationally without needing to read documentation

Everhour Time Tracking MCP Tools for Claude Desktop (10)

These 10 tools become available when you connect Everhour Time Tracking to Claude Desktop via MCP:

get_currently_running_timer

Retrieve the task and start time for any currently active timer

get_everhour_user_metadata

Retrieve metadata and profile information for the current Everhour user

get_project_detailed_data

Get detailed settings and budget information for a specific project

list_billing_clients

List all clients configured for project billing and invoicing

list_organization_team_members

List all team members and their roles in the organization

list_project_tasks

List all tasks within a specific project

list_projects_within_budget

Identify projects that are currently within their assigned time or monetary budget

list_team_time_records

List time records for the team within a specific date range

list_tracked_projects

List all projects managed in your Everhour account

quick_time_tracking_audit

Retrieve a high-level summary of recent time entries and active projects

Example Prompts for Everhour Time Tracking in Claude Desktop

Ready-to-use prompts you can give your Claude Desktop agent to start working with Everhour Time Tracking immediately.

"List all projects currently over budget."

"Show me the tasks for project 'Mobile App'."

"What is the team productivity summary for this week?"

Troubleshooting Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server with Claude Desktop

Common issues when connecting Everhour Time Tracking to Claude Desktop through the Vinkius, and how to resolve them.

Server not appearing after restart

Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).

Authentication error

Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.

Tools not showing in chat

Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting — wait a few seconds.

Everhour Time Tracking + Claude Desktop FAQ

Common questions about integrating Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server with Claude Desktop.

How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?

When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.

What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?

Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully — if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.

Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?

Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.

Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?

Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.

Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?

Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL — Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.