Desktime MCP server for AI agents and assistants

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Desktime MCP or direct API to track time, manage projects, analyze team productivity, and generate activity reports through natural language.

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Desktime is an automatic time tracking tool for teams and freelancers. It helps you monitor productivity, manage projects, and analyze work habits in real time.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Desktime action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Project with Optional Task

Tool to create a new project with an optional initial task.

Get Account Details

Retrieves company account configuration including work schedule and timezone settings.

Get All Company Employees

Tool to list all employees in the company, including their roles and statuses.

Get Employee

Tool to retrieve information about a single employee including user info, work settings, and tracking data for a specific date.

Get Employee Apps

Retrieves employee tracking data including tracked apps for a specific date.

Get Employee Projects

Retrieves comprehensive employee project tracking data including project assignments, time tracking metrics, work hours, and productivity statistics for a specific employee and date.

Get Employee Basic Data

Retrieve an employee's basic information and daily tracking statistics from DeskTime.

Get Projects List

Tool to retrieve all active projects for the company, including related tasks.

Ping DeskTime API

Tool to check the API's availability and confirm the service is operational.

Start Project Task

Starts time tracking for a specified project and optional task in DeskTime.

Stop Project Task

Tool to stop tracking time for a specified project and optional task.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Desktime MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/mcp @ai-sdk/openai
Install the Composio SDK and your agent framework
2

Create a session with MCP enabled

typescript
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";

const composio = new Composio();
const { mcp } = await composio.create("your-user-id", {
  toolkits: ["desktime"],
  mcp: true,
});
Create a session scoped to Desktime and read its MCP URL and headers
3

Connect your agent to the MCP server

typescript
import { createMCPClient } from "@ai-sdk/mcp";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from "ai";

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: { type: "http", url: mcp.url, headers: mcp.headers },
});

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai("gpt-5.6-sol"),
  tools: await client.tools(),
  prompt: "List all employees with current project assignments for today.",
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(10),
});

console.log(text);
await client.close();
Pass the session's MCP URL and headers to your agent and run a Desktime request
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Desktime API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core @composio/openai openai
Install the Composio SDK, the OpenAI provider, and the OpenAI SDK
2

Create a Composio session

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from "@composio/openai";

const composio = new Composio({ provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider() });
const client = new OpenAI();

const session = await composio.create("your-user-id", { toolkits: ["desktime"] });
const tools = await session.tools();
Initialize Composio with the OpenAI Responses provider and create a session scoped to Desktime
3

Run Desktime tools with your agent

typescript
let response = await client.responses.create({
  model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
  tools,
  input: [{ role: "user", content: "List all employees with current project assignments for today." }],
});

while (response.output.some((o) => o.type === "function_call")) {
  const outputs = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(session, response.output);
  response = await client.responses.create({
    model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
    tools,
    previous_response_id: response.id,
    input: outputs,
  });
}

console.log(response.output_text);
Send a request, execute the Desktime tool calls through the session, and print the final answer

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Desktime Integration

  • Supports both Desktime MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for tracking, project management, and productivity analytics

Managed Auth

  • Built-in API key management with secure storage and rotation
  • Central place to manage and revoke Desktime keys
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Desktime
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Desktime resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Desktime requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Yes. Composio is SOC 2 Type II compliant and is built to keep your Desktime connection and credentials secure. OAuth tokens and API keys are encrypted, and sensitive customer data is protected at rest and in transit.

Composio also undergoes independent security testing and continuously monitors its systems for security threats. You can review the latest reports and policies in the Composio Trust Center.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

Create the key in your Desktime account settings, then paste it once on Composio's connection page. Composio stores it encrypted and uses it only for the Desktime actions your agent runs. Nobody else in your workspace can read it, and you can revoke it inside Desktime at any time.

When you connect a Desktime account through Composio, every action runs under that account, so anything the agent creates, sends, or changes shows up in Desktime as done by you. Keep an approval step in your prompt for actions with side effects, such as sending or deleting, and have the agent draft first.

Whatever the credentials you connect allow inside Desktime. If Desktime lets you scope a key to specific permissions, create a scoped one so the agent can only do what you intend. You can revoke the key inside Desktime at any time.

Yes. Composio supports multiple connected accounts for the same app, and that works in Claude, ChatGPT, or any other assistant you connect through Composio. Give each Desktime connection a name such as work or personal, and the assistant uses the one you mention in the request. Each account keeps its own credentials and nothing is merged.

The connection stops working the moment Desktime rejects the old key. Create a new key in Desktime and reconnect the account from the Composio dashboard or by asking your agent to reconnect Desktime. Nothing else changes.

Composio's free Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month with no credit card, which covers most personal Desktime use. Paid plans add higher limits and team features. Your Desktime plan and its API limits still apply as usual.

Built-in connectors usually give one AI access to a limited set of apps. Many people use Composio because it lets their AI connect to more apps than it normally supports, or connect to multiple accounts for the same app (e.g. connect Claude to multiple Desktime accounts).

With Composio, you connect Desktime once and then use it across different AI assistants without setting it up separately in each one. Connect your apps to Composio once, then connect Composio to whichever AI you use, whether that's Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, or your own custom assistant.

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