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MCP Leave Tracker in Cline

Staff leave and PTO: requests, approvals, balances, who is out and a calendar export. You add employees with an annual allowance and carried-over days, then requests arrive as vacation, sick, unpaid or parental, full day or half day, inclusive dates. Approve or reject with a reason, re-open a rejected one by approving it, and cancel via leave_reject with a reason. leave_balance is derived on the call (allowance plus carry-over minus approved and pending, rounded down to whole days plus a half day), leave_out_range answers who is out for coverage and calendars with pending counted as a plan, and the import and ICS export move the ledger in and out. EMP and LV numbers are sequential and never reissued.

leave_balance, leave_out_range and both list tools are reads and safe to auto-approve. Keep leave_approve, leave_reject and leave_import behind a click: approving is the write that spends allowance days, and a rejected request re-opened by a later approve is the record, so a mistyped approval is history, not a typo. Nothing here ever writes into another server's store.

What you get in Cline

You say	Tool
Add Taylor Wren, 25 days a year, 2 carried over from last year.	`leave_employee_add`
Taylor wants next Tuesday to Wednesday off, vacation.	`leave_request`
Who is out the week of the 12th, and can I get Taylor's balance?	`leave_out_range then leave_balance`

The unit suite is 21 tests, 21 passing, 0 failing (node --test, node v22), covering the balance arithmetic, half days, the re-open path and the out-range deduplication, with adversarial, concurrency, paths and contract suites alongside it.

Install it in Cline

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

Scope	Path
Cline CLI	`~/.cline/mcp.json`
The editor extension	`opened from the Cline panel, not by path; the documentation deliberately calls it the MCP settings JSON used by the extension`

If you also run Claude Desktop, the shortest path there is one click: leave.mcpb from the latest release opens as an extension, with no JSON and no terminal. Cline reads its own config, so here it is:

The config block:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "leave": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/mcp-servers/servers/leave/dist/index.js"],
      "disabled": false,
      "autoApprove": []
    }
  }
}

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/leave

That writes servers/leave/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": {
    "leave": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@theluckystrike/mcp-leave"]
    }
  }
}

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

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.

No install: the hosted endpoint

The same server runs at https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/leave over MCP streamable HTTP, no install. Mint a free token with curl https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/token, or use a Pro key. It has no filesystem, so a file comes back as a one-hour download link.

Write the transport in. Omitting type falls back to the legacy sse transport, which will not talk to this endpoint:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "leave": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/leave",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <token>" }
    }
  }
}

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: Employees, requests, approvals, rejections, balances, the out-range view and the lists are free and unlimited; nothing a manager decides in a morning sits behind a paywall. Reads are free on every tier. 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 Leave Tracker'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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