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mcp-calendar

Your calendar app can show you next Tuesday. It cannot tell you where your week actually went, which two things you said yes to at the same time, or how many billable hours last month's meetings were worth. This server reads the .ics file your calendar already exports and answers those questions: events in any window with recurring series expanded properly, merged busy blocks and the real free gaps inside your working hours, every double booking across work and personal calendars at once, a clean .ics of just the events you picked, and the exact time entry for a meeting you should have billed. No account is connected, nothing is synced, and the calendar file stays on your machine as plain text.

Built by theluckystrike.

calendar

Import the .ics your calendar exports, then ask what is on, when you are free, and what clashes -- zero setup, all local.

60-second install

npm publish for @theluckystrike/mcp-calendar is pending. Until then, the .mcpb one-click bundle or a clone+build is the working path -- both are verified below.

One-click (.mcpb): download calendar.mcpb from the latest release and double-click it in Claude Desktop: https://github.com/theluckystrike/mcp-servers/releases/latest

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "calendar": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@theluckystrike/mcp-calendar"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add calendar -- npx -y @theluckystrike/mcp-calendar

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "calendar": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@theluckystrike/mcp-calendar"]
    }
  }
}

The npx form above starts working the moment the package is published. Until then, use the .mcpb bundle above, or build from source with exactly these four commands:

git clone https://github.com/theluckystrike/mcp-servers.git && cd mcp-servers
npm install
npm run build -w packages/mcp-license -w servers/timezone -w servers/calendar

Then point your client's command at node with one arg: the absolute path to servers/calendar/dist/index.js.

To run in Pro mode set MCP_LICENSE_KEY in the same config block, or call license_activate once with your key.

Getting the .ics out of your calendar

App Where
Google Calendar Settings -> Import & export -> Export. You get a zip; import the .ics inside it.
Apple Calendar File -> Export -> Export...
Outlook (desktop) File -> Save Calendar, format iCalendar (.ics)
Outlook / Microsoft 365 (web) Settings -> Calendar -> Shared calendars -> Publish, then use the ICS link (Pro)
Anything else Any published feed URL ending in .ics, or webcal:// (Pro)

Then: ics_import {path: "~/Downloads/mike@example.com.ics", name: "work"}

Tools

Tool What it does
ics_import Read a .ics file (path), pasted contents (text) or a public feed (url, Pro) and keep it locally under a name. Importing the same name again replaces it.
calendars_list Every imported calendar: name, source, event count, size, when it was imported.
events_list Every event between two dates with recurring series expanded to real occurrences, sorted, in your own time zone. Each row carries an id.
events_search Events whose title, description, location, organizer or attendees contain a phrase.
free_busy Merged busy blocks and the free gaps inside your working hours, day by day. Events marked free/transparent do not count as busy.
conflicts Every pair of events that overlap, with the overlap in minutes -- across all calendars, so a client call clashing with a school run is caught.
next_event The next thing that has not started, and how long until it does.
event_export Write chosen events (by id, or a whole window) to a new .ics you can send. Times in UTC, so it lands correctly in any client.
event_to_time_entry Turn one meeting into the exact arguments for the time-tracker's entry_add, so a call becomes billable time without retyping it.
ics_forget Remove one calendar and its local copy.
license_status / license_activate Show the tier; activate a Pro key offline.

Resource calendar://today gives today's schedule in one read. Prompt plan_my_day walks the whole loop: what is on, what clashes, where the free stretches are, and which finished meetings to bill.

What the parser handles

Written against real exports, not just the spec: line folding (CRLF, bare LF and bare CR), \n \, \; \\ escaping, whole-day events with an exclusive DTEND, DURATION instead of DTEND, TZID and UTC times, floating times, RRULE for DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY and YEARLY with COUNT, UNTIL (inclusive), INTERVAL, BYDAY, BYMONTHDAY and BYMONTH, EXDATE, RDATE, RECURRENCE-ID overrides (the moved instance replaces the original instead of appearing twice), STATUS:CANCELLED, TRANSP:TRANSPARENT, and VALARM blocks inside an event. An event it cannot read is skipped and counted rather than costing you the rest of the file.

VTIMEZONE is deliberately ignored. A file's inline DST rules are only as fresh as the app that wrote it; the TZID is kept and every offset is computed from the ICU data inside your Node build instead, which is what keeps a weekly Warsaw 10:00 meeting at 10:00 local across the March clock change.

Free vs Pro

Free Pro ($19 one-time)
Calendars kept 2 unlimited
Window per question up to 31 days any window
Events per export 50 unlimited
Import from a URL or webcal feed -- yes
Everything else full full

Get Pro -- or $39 for every server in the suite, lifetime.

Privacy

Everything is local. The calendar file you import is copied to ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/mcp-servers/calendar/ and read from there; deleting that directory resets the server. There is exactly one network call in the whole server, and only when you pass a url yourself: it fetches that address once, with a 12-second timeout, a 5 MB cap, and a refusal on loopback, private and cloud-metadata addresses. Nothing is uploaded, no account is linked, and licence keys verify offline.

Pairs with

FAQ

Does it connect to my Google or Outlook account? No. There is no OAuth, no token and no sync. You export a file (or paste a public feed URL on Pro) and it is read locally. That also means an import is a snapshot: re-import when the calendar has moved on.

Do recurring events work properly? Yes, and that is most of the code. A weekly series is expanded on the wall clock, so a Warsaw 10:00 meeting stays 10:00 through the DST change rather than drifting to 11:00. Monthly on the 31st skips February instead of rolling into March, UNTIL includes the occurrence that falls exactly on it, and a single moved instance replaces the original.

Why is my whole-day event one day shorter than I expected? It is not: RFC 5545 makes DTEND exclusive for a whole-day event, so 1--3 June means the 1st and the 2nd. This server follows the spec, which is what your calendar app does too.

Can it write to my calendar? It writes .ics files with event_export, which you can import anywhere. It never modifies the calendar it read.

How big a file can it read? 5 MB, which is a few thousand events. Export a narrower date range if a full history is bigger than that.

Set it up in your client

Exact config path, entry and caveats: Claude Desktop · Claude Code · Cursor · VS Code · Windsurf · Cline · Claude.ai and Claude Desktop connectors · all clients

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