tempo-api-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

tempo-api-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from chrischall/tempo-api-mcp. It costs 2,660 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

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.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building, testing, running, and extending tools for worklogs, plans, teams, accounts, projects, timesheets, schedules, and Tempo settings.
Why use it?
They give the coding agent the context needed to work consistently on this project without rediscovering how its commands and files are organized.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is chrischall/tempo-api-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on tempo-api-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything tempo-api-mcp configures →

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CLAUDE.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 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 + 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
    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.

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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 yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 2,660 tokens to every session, about $0.0133 per session on Opus 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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