Desktime MCP server

Connect Desktime to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the Desktime MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the get employee tool in Desktime
  • Use the start project tracking tool in Desktime
  • Use the stop project tracking tool in Desktime
  • Use the get employees tool in Desktime
  • Use the get company info tool in Desktime
  • Use the create project tool in Desktime

Supported Tools

get_employee

Get Employee

Retrieve tracking data for a single employee. Look up by employee ID or email address. Returns productivity data including productive, neutral, and unproductive time breakdowns, arrival/departure times, and app/website usage for a given date.

start_project_tracking

Start Project Tracking

Start tracking time for a given project and optionally a specific task in DeskTime. Useful for automating time tracking when starting work on a project, such as when a ticket is assigned or a task begins.

stop_project_tracking

Stop Project Tracking

Stop tracking time for a given project and optionally a specific task in DeskTime. Useful for automating time tracking when finishing work on a project, such as when a ticket is closed or a task is completed.

get_employees

Get Employees

Retrieve tracking data for all employees in the company. Supports filtering by date and period (day or month). Returns productivity data including productive, neutral, and unproductive time, arrival/departure times, and app/website usage for each employee.

get_company_info

Get Company Info

Retrieve company-level settings and metadata from DeskTime. Returns the company name, configured work start/end times, work duration, working days, tracking schedule, and timezone.

create_project

Create Project

Create a new project in DeskTime with an optional initial task. Use this to programmatically set up projects for time tracking, enabling integration with external project management or invoicing tools.

get_projects

Get Projects

List active DeskTime projects and their tasks, including project IDs, names, and creation dates. Use project and task names with start_project_tracking and stop_project_tracking. Archived projects are excluded.

get_employee_projects

Get Employee Projects

Retrieve an employee's tracked project activity and productivity data for a date. Call get_employees to discover employee IDs, or omit employeeId to retrieve the API key owner's data.

get_current_user

Get Current User

Identify the employee who owns the connected DeskTime API key. Returns their ID, name, email, and today's tracking information.

Connect Desktime to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable Desktime in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Desktime MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Desktime tools.

Run Desktime through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give Desktime and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Desktime tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

More integrations teams use with Desktime

Notion

Create, read, update, and archive pages and databases in a Notion workspace. Manage blocks (paragraphs, lists, headings, embeds, etc.) within pages. Query databases with filters and sorts across rich property types including text, numbers, dates, selects, relations, and formulas. Search across pages and databases by title. Add and read comments on pages and blocks. Upload files to pages. Manage workspace users and retrieve user profiles.

Google Sheets

Create, read, and update spreadsheets and their cell data. Read and write values to individual cells, ranges, or multiple ranges using A1 notation or named ranges. Apply cell formatting including text styles, backgrounds, borders, number formats, and conditional formatting. Manage sheets (tabs) within a spreadsheet—add, delete, copy, rename, and reorder them. Create and manage embedded charts, pivot tables, filter views, data validation rules, protected ranges, named ranges, and merged cells. Perform batch operations to apply multiple updates atomically.

GitHub

Manage repositories, issues, and pull requests. Create and configure branches, star repositories, review code, and merge changes. Automate CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, manage workflow runs, secrets, and artifacts. Track issues with labels, milestones, and assignees. Search across code, repositories, issues, and users. Manage organizations, teams, and memberships. Create and manage projects, gists, packages, deployments, and environments. Access security alerts including code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot alerts. Read and write file contents in repositories. Manage webhooks, notifications, and codespaces.

Salesforce

Manage CRM data including Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, and custom objects. Create, read, update, and delete records. Query data using SOQL and search across objects using SOSL. Perform bulk data operations for large-scale imports, exports, and migrations. Execute composite requests to batch multiple operations in a single API call. Access analytics, reports, and dashboards. Manage files and attachments associated with records. Interact with Chatter feeds, posts, and groups for social collaboration. Manage org metadata including custom objects, fields, layouts, and workflows. Query data using GraphQL for precise data retrieval across related objects.

Sharepoint

Manage SharePoint sites, document libraries, lists, and files. Create, read, update, and delete lists and list items with custom columns. Resolve site users to numeric Person/Group LookupId values. Upload, download, move, copy, and version files in document libraries. Search across sites, files, folders, lists, and list items using Microsoft Search. Manage permissions at site, list, and item levels with granular access control. Define and manage content types and site columns. Retrieve site properties and search for sites across Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Outlook

Send, read, reply to, forward, and manage email messages in user mailboxes. Organize messages into folders, apply categories, flags, and importance levels. Manage file and item attachments. Create, update, delete, and respond to calendar events and meetings. Find available meeting times, manage attendees, handle recurrence, and work with shared or delegated calendars. Create, read, update, and delete contacts, organize them into contact folders, and manage contact photos. Manage tasks and task lists via Microsoft To Do, including due dates, reminders, recurrence, and checklist items. Subscribe to webhook notifications for changes to messages, calendar events, and contacts. Support for Focused Inbox, @-mentions, mail tips, send-on-behalf, and send-as capabilities.

Technical notes for Desktime

Retrieve employee time tracking, productivity, and project activity from DeskTime. Identify the connected employee, access company settings, retrieve employee work hours, and discover active projects and tasks. Create projects with an optional task and start or stop project time tracking.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Desktime to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Desktime MCP server have?
    The Desktime MCP server exposes 9 tools, including Get Employee, Start Project Tracking, Stop Project Tracking. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Desktime exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Desktime MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Desktime and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Desktime MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

Connect Desktime to production AI agents

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