What is tempo-api-mcp CLAUDE.md?

Project-specific instructions for a Claude Code connection to Tempo, a time-tracking and work-planning service. They document commands, tool names, software structure, and required setup.

They give the coding agent the context needed to work consistently on this project without rediscovering how its commands and files are organized.

How chrischall/tempo-api-mcp configures Claude Code

Q: What is it for?

Building, testing, running, and extending tools for worklogs, plans, teams, accounts, projects, timesheets, schedules, and Tempo settings.

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Borrowing it

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Clone the repo

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When invoked 3,143 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.03143	$0.03143
Opus 5.5	$0.01257	$0.01257
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00629	$0.00629
Haiku 4.5	$0.00314	$0.00314

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5f88184096f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tempo-api-mcp CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tempo-api-mcp

MCP server exposing the Tempo REST API (v4) to Claude via stdio transport. Forty-odd tools for worklogs, plans, teams, accounts, projects, timesheet approvals, periods, schedules, and Tempo configuration.

Commands

npm run build          # tsc + esbuild bundle → dist/index.js + dist/bundle.js
npm test               # tsc typecheck (src + tests via tsconfig.test.json) + vitest run
npm run test:watch     # vitest watch
npm run test:coverage  # tsc typecheck + v8 coverage (text + html)

Run locally (requires built dist):

TEMPO_API_TOKEN=xxx npm run dev   # node dist/index.js

Tool naming

All tools are prefixed tempo_ (e.g. tempo_get_worklogs, tempo_create_worklog, tempo_get_timesheet_approval_status).

Architecture

src/
  index.ts          # entry — `runMcp({ name, version, deps: client, tools: [...] })` from @chrischall/mcp-utils
  client.ts         # TempoClient — thin wrapper over `createApiClient` (mcp-utils); Bearer auth, retry, timeout
  tools/
    worklogs.ts     # worklogs CRUD + search + by-user/project/issue/team/account
    plans.ts        # plans CRUD (resource allocations)
    teams.ts        # teams CRUD + team-memberships list/search
    accounts.ts     # accounts CRUD + search + categories
    hints.ts        # `_meta.mint` context-group hints (group `work`; one canonical read — approvals waiting, whats-due, `view: brief`); pinned by tests/hints.test.ts
    projects.ts     # projects, timesheet approvals (read + submit/approve/reject/reopen/recall), logs, periods, user-schedule, global config, work attributes, roles

Each tool file exports register(server: McpServer, client: TempoClient) and calls server.registerTool(name, def, handler) for each tool. To add a new domain, create src/tools/<name>.ts with a register export and add it to the tools array in src/index.ts.

Most plumbing lives in @chrischall/mcp-utils, not this repo: runMcp (boots the high-level McpServer + stdio transport, prints the AI-maintained banner to stderr), createApiClient/fetchJson (Bearer auth, retry, timeout, auth/rate-limit error mapping), loadDotenvSafely, readEnvVar (placeholder-defended env parsing), buildOptionalBody (body builders), and textResult/rawTextResult (tool output). TempoClient (client.ts) just configures createApiClient for Tempo; the tool modules still receive the SDK's high-level McpServer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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tempo-api-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chrischall/tempo-api-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,143 tokens to every session, about $0.0126 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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