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One card per job: hours and materials logged against it, a status machine from open to invoiced, and the printed card for client sign-off. You open a card for the client, the site, what the job is, the currency and the scheduled date, and it returns a JC-YYYY-NNNN id. The crew logs hours each at their rate and materials as item, quantity and unit cost, each line valued and rounded half-up to the cent once at the moment it is logged and stored on the entry, so the running totals are plain sums of stored line values and can never drift from the lines. Hours are carried as integer hundredths, so 2.5 hours at 4,999 cents an hour is 12,498 cents, never 12,497.499999. The card moves exactly one step at a time, open to in_progress to done to invoiced to archived, every step dated in its history, and a skipped or backwards step is refused. job_card_print renders the card with a signature line for client sign-off, and job_card_summary answers a day or a week: cards touched, hours per worker, value per currency, never mixed. A card holding labor or materials cannot be deleted, because it is the record of work done; it is archived instead, and the JC number is never reissued.
The day's hours are reported from wherever the crew phones home, and this is the client open on the office machine: job_card_log_labor takes the worker, the day, the hours and the rate in one sentence, and job_card_print at the end of the job is the same window. Nothing leaves the machine: there is no network call in the server on any tool.
| You say | Tool |
|---|---|
| Open a job card for the Kowalski bathroom refit, 14 Nowa Street flat 3: replace the consumer unit and certify, EUR, scheduled 2026-03-09. | job_card_create |
| Anna logged 7.5 hours at 45.00 an hour on the 9th, first fix. | job_card_log_labor |
| Print the card for the client to sign. | job_card_print |
On the worked card, 7.5 hours at 4,500 cents an hour is 33,750 cents and one consumer unit at 18,999 is 18,999, and the grand total is their plain sum, 52,749. The smoke suite drives create, log labor, log material, the one-step status moves, print in both formats, the summary and the delete guards over real stdio, then the free cap on the eleventh active card and the same calls passing in Pro.
The file is claude_desktop_config.json, and the key inside it is mcpServers.
| Scope | Path |
|---|---|
| macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json |
| Windows | %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json |
One click, no JSON. Download job-card.mcpb from the
latest release and open it. Claude Desktop installs it as an extension and runs
it on the Node runtime it ships with, so neither your PATH nor your node version comes into it, and there
is no file to edit. Everything below is the manual route, for when you want the entry in the config file
itself.
The config block, which needs both strings absolute:
{
"mcpServers": {
"job-card": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/absolute/path/to/mcp-servers/servers/job-card/dist/index.js"]
}
}
}If node came from nvm, asdf or homebrew, use the absolute path that which node prints
rather than the bare word, because a stdio server started by this app inherits a limited PATH:
"command": "/Users/you/.nvm/versions/node/v22.14.0/bin/node"The node command above wants a built file. From a clone, once:
git clone https://github.com/theluckystrike/mcp-servers.git
cd mcp-servers && npm install
npm run build -w packages/mcp-license -w servers/job-cardThat writes servers/job-card/dist/index.js, and its absolute path is the one argument
the config needs.
The npm packages are not published yet, so the form below returns a 404 today. It is here because it is what the entry becomes the day the publish lands, with nothing else changed:
{
"mcpServers": {
"job-card": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@theluckystrike/mcp-job-card"]
}
}
}Save, then completely quit Claude Desktop and start it again. A window reload is not enough.
Nothing is published to npm yet, so the working install paths are the ones above: the .mcpb bundle from the latest release, a clone and build, or the hosted URL.
There is no hosted endpoint for this one yet. MCP Job Card runs locally over stdio with the config above, which is also the only form in which it reads and writes files on your own disk. Thirty of the servers in this collection are served at https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/<name> over MCP streamable HTTP; https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/connect lists them and prints a ready URL for each.
Two documented facts decide whether the entry works: every path in claude_desktop_config.json must be absolute, and a stdio server started here inherits only a limited, platform-dependent subset of environment variables. If node came from nvm or homebrew, paste what `which node` prints instead of the bare word. The .mcpb route avoids both: Claude Desktop ships a built-in Node.js environment.
Free: Ten active job cards, with labor and material entries unlimited per card and the running totals, list, get, the printable card and the daily and weekly summaries all free and unlimited on every tier. A card stops counting the moment it is archived, so the record is never metered. Pro is $19 once, verified offline.
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json. Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json. There is no published Linux path. Settings, Developer, Edit Config opens the right copy and creates it if it does not exist.
In order: did you fully quit and restart, not just close the window? Is every path absolute? And is the command resolvable, given the limited environment a stdio server inherits here? If node came from nvm, paste what which node prints.
Yes. An .mcpb bundle, the format renamed from .dxt, opens with Claude and shows an installation dialog. One you built yourself goes in through Settings, Extensions, Advanced settings, Install Extension.
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