How to integrate Everhour MCP with Claude Code

Connect Claude Code to Everhour MCP. List all clients for this workspace, retrieve expense categories for new report, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Everhour is a time tracking and expense management platform for teams and individuals. Gain insight into hours, costs, and budgets for smarter planning and resource allocation.

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Introduction

Manage your Everhour directly from Claude Code with zero worries about OAuth hassles, API-breaking issues, or reliability and security concerns.

You can do this in two different ways:

  1. Via Composio Connect - Direct and easiest approach
  2. Via Composio SDK - Programmatic approach with more control

For exact tool slugs and parameter tables, see the tool catalog in the Composio docs.

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Why use Composio?

  • Only one MCP URL to connect multiple apps with Claude Code with zero auth hassles.
  • Programmatic tool calling allows LLMs to write its code in a remote workbench to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Handling Large tool responses out of LLM context to minimize context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1700+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so LLMs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

Connecting Everhour to Claude Code using Composio

1. Add the Composio MCP to Claude

Terminal

2. Start Claude Code

bash
claude

3. Open your MCP list

bash
/mcp

4. Select Composio and click on Authenticate

Select Composio and click Authenticate

5. This will redirect you to the Composio OAuth page. Complete the flow by authorizing Composio and you're all set.

Composio OAuth authorization page
Composio authorization complete
Ask Claude to connect to your account and authenticate via the link

What is the Everhour MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Everhour MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Everhour account. It provides structured and secure access to your time tracking, client, and expense data, so your agent can perform actions like listing clients, retrieving expenses, managing projects, and fetching user profiles on your behalf.

  • Comprehensive client management: Ask your agent to list, create, or delete clients to keep your workspace organized and up-to-date.
  • Expense tracking and review: Effortlessly retrieve all expenses or list available expense categories to monitor spending and streamline expense management.
  • Project and section insights: Have your agent fetch detailed information about specific projects or sections using their IDs for better resource planning.
  • Personalized user profile access: Enable your agent to fetch the authenticated user's profile for quick access to account details and preferences.
  • Webhook configuration overview: List all configured webhooks to monitor integrations and automate notifications within your Everhour environment.

Connecting Everhour via Composio SDK

Composio SDK is the underlying technology that powers these integrations. It provides a universal gateway with full programmatic control. You can programmatically generate an MCP URL with the app you need (here Everhour) for even more tool search precision. It's secure and reliable.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step10 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Claude Pro, Max, or API billing enabled Anthropic account
  • Composio API Key
  • A Everhour account
  • Basic knowledge of Python or TypeScript
2

Install Claude Code

bash
# macOS, Linux, WSL
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

# Windows PowerShell
irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex

# Windows CMD
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.cmd -o install.cmd && install.cmd && del install.cmd

To install Claude Code, use one of the following methods based on your operating system:

3

Set up Claude Code

bash
cd your-project-folder
claude

Open a terminal, go to your project folder, and start Claude Code:

  • Claude Code will open in your terminal
  • Follow the prompts to sign in with your Anthropic account
  • Complete the authentication flow
  • Once authenticated, you can start using Claude Code
Claude Code initial setup showing sign-in prompt
Claude Code terminal after successful login
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here

Create a .env file in your project root with the following variables:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio (get it from Composio dashboard)
  • USER_ID identifies the user for session management (use any unique identifier)
5

Install Composio library

npm install @composio/core dotenv

Install the Composio TypeScript library to create MCP sessions.

  • @composio/core provides the core Composio functionality
  • dotenv loads environment variables from your .env file
6

Generate Composio MCP URL

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;

if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
}

const composioClient = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

const composioSession = await composioClient.create(USER_ID, {
  toolkits: ['everhour'],
});

const composioMcpUrl = composioSession?.mcp.url;

console.log(`MCP URL: ${composioMcpUrl}`);
console.log(`\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:`);
console.log(`claude mcp add --transport http everhour-composio "${composioMcpUrl}" --headers "X-API-Key:${COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"`);

Create a script to generate a Composio MCP URL for Everhour. This URL will be used to connect Claude Code to Everhour.

What's happening

  • We import the Composio client and load environment variables
  • Create a Composio instance with your API key
  • Call create() to create a Tool Router session for Everhour
  • The returned mcp.url is the MCP server URL that Claude Code will use
  • The script prints this URL so you can copy it
7

Run the script and copy the MCP URL

node --loader ts-node/esm generate_mcp_url.ts
# or if using tsx
tsx generate_mcp_url.ts

Run your TypeScript script to generate the MCP URL.

  • The script connects to Composio and creates a Tool Router session
  • It prints the MCP URL and the exact command you need to run
  • Copy the entire claude mcp add command from the output
8

Add Everhour MCP to Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --transport http everhour-composio "YOUR_MCP_URL_HERE" --headers "X-API-Key:YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"

# Then restart Claude Code
exit
claude

In your terminal, add the MCP server using the command from the previous step. The command format is:

  • claude mcp add registers a new MCP server with Claude Code
  • --transport http specifies that this is an HTTP-based MCP server
  • The server name (everhour-composio) is how you'll reference it
  • The URL points to your Composio Tool Router session
  • --headers includes your Composio API key for authentication

After running the command, close the current Claude Code session and start a new one for the changes to take effect.

9

Verify the installation

bash
claude mcp list

Check that your Everhour MCP server is properly configured.

  • This command lists all MCP servers registered with Claude Code
  • You should see your everhour-composio entry in the list
  • This confirms that Claude Code can now access Everhour tools

If everything is wired up, you should see your everhour-composio entry listed:

Claude Code MCP list showing the toolkit MCP server
10

Authenticate Everhour

The first time you try to use Everhour tools, you'll be prompted to authenticate.

  • Claude Code will detect that you need to authenticate with Everhour
  • It will show you an authentication link
  • Open the link in your browser (or copy/paste it)
  • Complete the Everhour authorization flow
  • Return to the terminal and start using Everhour through Claude Code

Once authenticated, you can ask Claude Code to perform Everhour operations in natural language. For example:

  • "List all clients for this workspace"
  • "Retrieve expense categories for new report"
  • "Get my Everhour user profile details"

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Everhour and Claude Code:

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;

if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
}

const composioClient = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

const composioSession = await composioClient.create(USER_ID, {
  toolkits: ['everhour'],
});

const composioMcpUrl = composioSession?.mcp.url;

console.log(`MCP URL: ${composioMcpUrl}`);
console.log(`\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:`);
console.log(`claude mcp add --transport http everhour-composio "${composioMcpUrl}" --headers "X-API-Key:${COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"`);

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Everhour with Claude Code using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Everhour directly from your terminal using natural language commands.

Key features of this setup:

  • Terminal-native experience without switching contexts
  • Natural language commands for Everhour operations
  • Secure authentication through Composio's managed MCP
  • Tool Router for dynamic tool discovery and execution

Next steps:

  • Try asking Claude Code to perform various Everhour operations
  • Add more toolkits to your Tool Router session for multi-app workflows
  • Integrate this setup into your development workflow for increased productivity

You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom workflows, or building automation scripts that leverage Claude Code's capabilities.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Time

Add or upsert tracked time for a task, user, and date.

Create Client

Creates a new client in Everhour for tracking billable work, invoicing, and project organization.

Delete a client

Tool to delete a client.

List Clients

Retrieves all clients in the Everhour workspace.

Clock In User

Tool to clock in a user for time tracking.

Clock Out User

Tool to clock out a user for time tracking.

Create Webhook

Tool to create a new webhook for event notifications in Everhour.

Delete Webhook

Tool to delete a webhook.

Delete a timecard

Delete a user's timecard for a specific date in Everhour.

Delete Time Record

Remove tracked time by record ID while retaining its history trail.

Discard Timesheet Approval

Withdraw the authenticated user's previously submitted timesheet approval request for a week.

List Expenses

List expense records logged by the authenticated user in Everhour.

Get Client by ID

Tool to retrieve a specific client by ID.

Get Current Timer

Get the authenticated Everhour user's current timer state.

Get Project

Tool to retrieve a specific project.

Get Projects Report

Return aggregated Everhour project time and financial metrics.

Get Section

Retrieve details of a specific section by its ID.

Get Task

Retrieve one native or integration-backed Everhour task by ID.

Get Task Time Records

Lists tracked-time records for an Everhour task with date and page filters.

Get Timecard

Tool to retrieve a specific timecard for a user on a date.

Get Authenticated User Profile

Tool to retrieve profile information of the authenticated user.

Get User Time Records

List one Everhour user's tracked-time records.

Get Webhook

Retrieve details of a specific webhook by its ID.

List Expense Categories

Lists all expense categories available in your Everhour account.

List Webhooks

List webhooks created with the Everhour API key, including their target URLs, subscribed events, active status, and timestamps.

List Invoices

Retrieves all invoices from your Everhour workspace.

List projects

Lists Everhour projects accessible to the authenticated user, with optional name, status, platform, and result-limit parameters.

List Project Tasks

List tasks in an Everhour project with optional filters and pagination.

List Project Time Records

List tracked-time records for an Everhour project.

List Sections

Lists all sections within a specific Everhour project.

List Tags

List all tags in the Everhour workspace.

List Team Members

Retrieves team members in the authenticated Everhour workspace, including IDs, names, roles, and statuses.

List Teams

Retrieves information about the authenticated team/workspace in Everhour.

List Team Time Records

List team time records for a date range; without dates, return only today.

List Timecards

Retrieves team timecards, including clock-in/out data and work hours, with optional date filtering.

List User Timecards

Retrieves a specific user's timecards, including clock-in/out data and work hours, with optional date filtering.

List User Timesheets

Tool to retrieve timesheets for a specific user.

Create Project

Tool to create a new project in Everhour.

Delete a project

Permanently deletes an Everhour project by ID, including its tasks and associated time records.

Request Timesheet Approval

Tool to request approval for a timesheet or approve a week (for admins).

Search Tasks

Search accessible Everhour tasks, optionally including closed tasks.

Create Section

Tool to create a new section in a project.

Delete a section

Tool to delete a section.

Create Task

Creates a new task in an Everhour project.

Start Timer

Tool to start a new timer for a task.

Update Client

Tool to update an existing client in Everhour.

Update Expense

Partially update an existing Everhour expense.

Update an existing project

Updates an existing Everhour project's settings by project ID, including its name or notes.

Update Timecard

Update or create a user's timecard for a specific date, setting clock-in, clock-out, or break duration.

Update Time Record

Update an existing tracked-time record by its record ID.

Update Webhook

Update an existing Everhour webhook's subscribed events or project filter.

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