Bring Project Management
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect COR to Claude Desktop and start using 13 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the COR MCP Server?
Connect your COR account to any AI agent and take full control of your professional services project management and profitability orchestration through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Project Portfolio Orchestration — List all active projects, retrieve detailed high-fidelity status metadata, and access profitability metrics programmatically
- Task Pipeline Intelligence — Query tasks for any project, retrieve detailed technical metadata, and stay on top of your team's operational delivery in real-time
- Profitability Monitoring — Access high-fidelity financial insights and project health metrics to ensure sustainable growth directly through your agent
- Time Tracking Discovery — Access recorded technical time entries to understand workload distribution and project efficiency across your organization
- Resource Architecture — List team members, teams, and user profiles to understand and orchestrate your organizational structure programmatically
- Client Database Access — Query the complete high-fidelity directory of client organizations to maintain perfect contextual alignment for every project
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Retrieve your Personal API Token from your COR account (Settings > API Tokens)
3. Start managing your professional services growth from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual status updates or missing profitability gaps. Your AI acts as your dedicated project coordinator and profitability architect.
Who is this for?
- Project Managers — instantly retrieve task lists and project statuses using natural language commands without leaving your creative workspace
- Agency Leads — monitor high-fidelity profitability metrics and team utilization to ensure healthy business operations
- Operations Managers — verify technical time logs and team assignments to optimize resource allocation through simple AI queries
Built-in capabilities (13)
Check API Status
Create a new project
Get current user details
Get details for a specific project
Get details for a specific task
List customer clients
List COR projects
List defined task types
Optionally filter by project ID to isolate specific technical pipelines. List tasks
List team users
List users in a team
List organization teams
List recorded time entries
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect COR to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 13 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
COR in Claude Desktop
COR and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect COR to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for COR in Claude Desktop
The COR MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 13 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
COR for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the COR MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find my COR API Token?
Log in to your account, navigate to Personal Settings > API Tokens, and generate a new high-fidelity Personal API Token.
Can I check project profitability via AI?
Yes! The get_cor_project tool allows your agent to retrieve high-fidelity profitability metrics and financial health data for any specific project.
How do I list my organization's teams?
Use the list_cor_teams tool to retrieve the complete high-fidelity directory of teams along with their unique identifiers for precise orchestration.
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.
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.