Timely MCP for AI Agents

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Timely MCP or direct API to log work hours, fetch activity timelines, generate productivity reports, and manage project timesheets through natural language.

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Timely is an automatic time-tracking platform that seamlessly records work across apps, calendars, and devices. It helps you create detailed timesheets and gain productivity insights without manual input.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Client

Tool to create a new client in the specified Timely account.

Create Day Locking

Tool to create a day locking entry that prevents editing of time entries for specific dates and users.

Create Label

Tool to create a new label in the specified Timely account.

Create report

Tool to generate reports for a Timely account with optional filters.

Create Team

Tool to create a new team in the specified Timely account.

Create Webhook

Tool to create a new webhook for the specified account.

Delete a label

Tool to delete a label by ID from a Timely account.

Delete a team

Tool to delete a team by its ID.

Delete Webhook

Tool to delete an existing webhook by its ID.

Filter reports

Tool to filter Timely reports based on date range, users, projects, labels, teams, and billing status.

Get activities

Tool to retrieve all activities (audit trail) for a Timely account.

Get Client

Tool to retrieve details of a specific client by its ID.

Get current user's permissions

Tool to retrieve the current user's permissions for a specified account.

Get current user

Tool to retrieve the currently authenticated user.

Retrieve a label

Tool to retrieve a label by ID from a Timely account.

Get project

Tool to retrieve a single project by its ID.

Retrieve a team

Tool to retrieve details of a specific team by its ID.

Retrieve a user

Tool to retrieve a user by ID from a Timely account.

Get user capacities

Tool to retrieve capacity information for a specific user in a Timely account.

Get user permissions

Tool to retrieve a user's permissions by their ID.

Get Webhook

Tool to retrieve a specific webhook by its ID.

List accounts

Retrieve all accessible Timely accounts for the authenticated user.

List clients

Tool to list all clients in a Timely account with optional filtering and sorting.

List events

Tool to list all events (time entries) in a Timely account with optional filtering by date range, users, and projects.

List forecasts

Tool to list all forecasts (tasks) in a Timely account with optional date filtering.

List labels

Tool to list all labels in a Timely account.

List project events

Tool to list all events (time entries) for a specific project in Timely.

List projects

Tool to list all projects in a Timely account with optional filtering and sorting.

List roles

Tool to list all available roles in a Timely account.

List teams

Tool to list all teams in the specified Timely account.

List user events

Tool to list all events (time entries) for a specific user in Timely.

List users

Tool to list all users in a Timely account with optional filtering and pagination.

List Webhooks

Tool to list all webhooks in the specified account.

Process bulk events

Tool to create, update, or delete multiple events in a single bulk operation.

Retrieve an account

Tool to retrieve details of a specific account by its ID.

Update a client

Tool to update an existing client by ID in Timely.

Update day locking settings

Tool to update day locking settings for specified users and dates.

Update a label

Tool to update a label by ID in a Timely account.

Update a project

Tool to update a project by ID in a Timely account.

Update a user

Tool to update a user by ID in a Timely account.

Update Webhook

Tool to update an existing webhook by ID.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Timely MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/openai @ai-sdk/mcp
Install the Composio SDK and Claude Agent SDK
2

Create Tool Router Session

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

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' });

console.log("Creating Tool Router session...");
const { mcp } = await composio.create('your-user-id');
console.log(`Tool Router session created: ${mcp.url}`);
Initialize the Composio client and create a Tool Router session
3

Connect to AI Agent

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

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: {
    type: 'http',
    url: mcp.url,
    headers: { 'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key' }
  }
});

const tools = await client.tools();

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-4o'),
  tools,
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Retrieve account details for account id 364' }],
  stopWhen: stepCountIs( 5 )
});

console.log(`Agent: ${text}`);
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SETUP GUIDE

Connect Timely API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/openai
Install the Composio SDK
2

Initialize Composio and Create Tool Router Session

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

const composio = new Composio({
  provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider(),
});
const openai = new OpenAI({});
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
Import and initialize Composio client, then create a Tool Router session
3

Execute Timely Tools via Tool Router with Your Agent

typescript
const tools = session.tools;
const response = await openai.responses.create({
  model: 'gpt-4.1',
  tools: tools,
  input: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'Retrieve account details for my Timely workspace'
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
Get tools from Tool Router session and execute Timely actions with your Agent

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Timely Integration

  • Supports both Timely MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Timely data

Managed Auth

  • Built-in OAuth handling with automatic token refresh and rotation
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Timely access
  • 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 Timely
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Timely resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

No, you can get started immediately using Composio's built-in Timely app. For production, we recommend configuring your own OAuth credentials.

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

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. Learn more.

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

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