Overview

AbleTime speaks MCP — the Model Context Protocol, the open standard that lets AI Agents use applications on your behalf. It's the same protocol behind the connectors in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and most modern AI tools, which means the Agent you already work with can work in AbleTime too.

How it's used

You connect your Agent once: add AbleTime's address to your Agent host, then either give the host your personal access key or approve the connection on the Connect to AbleTime page that opens in your browser. Either way you need a personal access key, and your organization has to have agent access on. There's nothing to install and nothing to run. From then on, AbleTime is available to your Agent — while you work with it on anything else, it can record time and manage tasks without you ever switching apps.

How it works

When an Agent connects, AbleTime hands it a list of tools. Each tool is a single action — read something, write something — and the Agent picks whichever the moment calls for, the same way you'd choose what to click.

Every call is made as you. The connection carries your identity and your role, so the Agent sees what you can see and does what you can do — nothing more. There are no separate machine permissions to manage: your access is its access.

What's served over MCP

AbleTime offers three kinds of connection. The work connection records draft time, and manages the tasks that time belongs to, while you work, covered on Time / Task Manager. The board connection runs project management on the board: assignments, priorities, scheduling, epics and milestones. A separate, read-only Reports connection lets your Agent read Intelligence Reports, covered on Intelligence Reports with Your Agent.

To get connected, see MCP Authentication. The full tool list is on MCP Tools, and the Agent's behavior can be tuned on Customizing Behavior.