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 VS Code Copilot 10 tools — connect in under 2 minutes

Name: Everhour Time Tracking
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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everhour-time-tracking": {
      "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.

GitHub Copilot Agent mode brings Everhour Time Tracking data directly into your VS Code workflow. With a project-scoped config, the entire team shares access to 10 tools — Copilot queries live data, generates typed code, and writes tests from actual API responses, all without leaving the editor.

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 VS Code Copilot 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 VS Code Copilot via MCP

Follow these steps to integrate the Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server with VS Code Copilot.

Create MCP config

Create a .vscode/mcp.json file in your project root

Add the server config

Paste the JSON configuration above

Enable Agent mode

Open GitHub Copilot Chat and switch to Agent mode using the dropdown

Start using Everhour Time Tracking

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Why Use VS Code Copilot with the Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server

GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio Code provides unique advantages when paired with Everhour Time Tracking through the Model Context Protocol.

VS Code is used by over 70% of developers — adding MCP tools to Copilot means your team can leverage external data without leaving their primary editor

Project-scoped MCP configs (`.vscode/mcp.json`) let you commit server configurations to your repository, ensuring the entire team shares the same tool access

Copilot's Agent mode integrates MCP tools seamlessly with file editing, terminal commands, and workspace search in a single agentic loop

GitHub's enterprise compliance and audit features extend to MCP tool usage, providing visibility into how AI interacts with external services

Everhour Time Tracking + VS Code Copilot Use Cases

Practical scenarios where VS Code Copilot combined with the Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server delivers measurable value.

Live API integration: Copilot can query an MCP server, inspect the response schema, and generate typed API client code in the same step

DevSecOps workflows: security teams can give developers access to domain intelligence tools directly in their editor for real-time vulnerability assessment during code review

Data pipeline development: Copilot fetches sample data via MCP and generates transformation scripts, validators, and test fixtures from actual API responses

Documentation generation: Copilot queries available tools and auto-generates README sections, API reference docs, and usage examples

Everhour Time Tracking MCP Tools for VS Code Copilot (10)

These 10 tools become available when you connect Everhour Time Tracking to VS Code Copilot 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 VS Code Copilot

Ready-to-use prompts you can give your VS Code Copilot 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 VS Code Copilot

Common issues when connecting Everhour Time Tracking to VS Code Copilot through the Vinkius, and how to resolve them.

MCP tools not available

Ensure you are in Agent mode in Copilot Chat. MCP tools only appear in Agent mode.

Everhour Time Tracking + VS Code Copilot FAQ

Common questions about integrating Everhour Time Tracking MCP Server with VS Code Copilot.

Which VS Code version supports MCP?

MCP support requires VS Code 1.99 or later with the GitHub Copilot extension. Ensure both are updated to the latest version. Older versions of Copilot may not expose the Agent mode toggle.

How do I switch to Agent mode?

Open the Copilot Chat panel and look for two mode options: "Ask" and "Agent". Click "Agent" to enable autonomous tool calling. In Ask mode, Copilot provides conversational answers but cannot invoke MCP tools.

Can I restrict which MCP tools Copilot can access?

Yes. VS Code shows a tool consent dialog before any MCP tool is invoked for the first time. You can also configure tool access policies at the organization level through GitHub Copilot settings.

Does MCP work in VS Code Remote or Codespaces?

Yes. MCP servers configured via .vscode/mcp.json work in Remote SSH, WSL, and GitHub Codespaces environments. The MCP connection is established from the remote host, so ensure the server URL is accessible from that environment.