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MCP Calendar in Cline

Read .ics calendars: events, free and busy, conflicts, exports. It imports a .ics export from Google, Apple or Outlook, expands recurring series correctly across DST, lists events, computes free and busy blocks, flags overlapping events across every imported calendar, exports a selection, and turns a meeting into a time entry.

events_list, free_busy, conflicts and next_event are read-only and safe to auto-approve; leave ics_import, event_export and ics_forget, which write or remove local data, behind a click.

What you get in Cline

You sayTool
What is on my calendar next week and where am I free for two hours?events_list then free_busy
Do any of my meetings clash this week?conflicts
Log yesterday's Nova call as billable time.event_to_time_entry

VTIMEZONE blocks in the file are ignored on purpose: every offset is computed from the ICU data inside Node from the TZID name, which is what keeps a weekly 10:00 Warsaw meeting at 10:00 local across the March clock change instead of drifting to 11:00.

Install it in Cline

The file is mcp.json, and the key inside it is mcpServers.

ScopePath
Cline CLI~/.cline/mcp.json
The editor extensionopened from the Cline panel, not by path; the documentation deliberately calls it the MCP settings JSON used by the extension
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "calendar": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@theluckystrike/mcp-calendar"],
      "disabled": false,
      "autoApprove": []
    }
  }
}

No full-app restart. The MCP settings actions include restarting an unresponsive server if its tools do not appear.

The npm publish of @theluckystrike/mcp-calendar is pending; until then use the .mcpb bundle or a clone and build from the latest release.

No install: the hosted endpoint

There is no hosted endpoint for this one yet. MCP Calendar 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. Three of the servers in this collection are served at https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/<name> over MCP streamable HTTP: time-tracker, price-tracker and invoice.

Cline notes worth knowing first

Cline is the one client here with an unsafe transport default. `type` selects it, and omitting `type` falls back to the legacy sse transport, so a streamable HTTP endpoint needs it written in or you will debug a server that is fine. Local entries carry "disabled" and an "autoApprove" array.

Free: 2 calendars, windows up to 31 days, exports up to 50 events. Pro is $19 once, verified offline.

Questions

Where does the config live?

The CLI reads ~/.cline/mcp.json. For the extension, do not hunt for a path: MCP Servers icon, Configure tab, Configure MCP Servers. cline mcp opens a wizard, and cline config mcp --json is the non-interactive form.

The hosted endpoint will not connect.

Set the transport explicitly. Omitting type falls back to the legacy sse transport, so streamable HTTP needs "type": "streamableHttp" written in. It is the one default here that sends you debugging a server that works.

Should I auto-approve MCP Calendar's tools?

Approve the read-only ones and leave the writing ones behind a click: each entry carries an autoApprove array and a disabled flag.

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