focus-timer-tools

Headless clients for the focus.jasonv.dev Pomodoro timer — a CLI, an MCP server, and a Claude skill. The timer is server-owned: your browser, this CLI, an MCP-connected agent, and the skill all drive one coherent timer (25-min focus / 5-min break, long break every 4th, auto-advancing server-side).

The app itself (web + Convex backend) lives in a separate private repo. These tools talk to its public Convex deployment.

New here? Follow GETTING_STARTED.md — sign in, mint a key, and wire your agents in ~5 minutes. Then EXO_BRAIN.md — what to actually capture so the provenance graph is worth querying later.

Install the skill

npx skills add jpvarbed/focus-timer-tools

Installs the focus-timer skill (skills/focus-timer/SKILL.md) into your agent.

Related MCP server: productive-mcp

Identity — a minted key

Sign in at focus.jasonv.dev, then Settings → Mint key, and export the ak_… key:

export FOCUS_API_KEY=ak_your_key_here

The owner is derived from the key server-side (no cleartext id), access is scoped to that owner's Focus reads and writes, and the key is one-click revocable. The endpoint defaults to the prod deployment; override with FOCUS_CONVEX_SITE only if you run your own backend.

CLI

FOC=cli/src/index.ts
bun run "$FOC" status
# timer:  status · start [label] · pause · resume · skip · reset · stats · watch · config
# fleet:  fleet · report · ask · recall · learn · decide
# memory: collect decision|factory-run · sync · recall-decisions · collector-status · receipt

Durable memory: collector → ETL → Focus

Factory / Codex / Claude / repository files
                    ↓ explicit, pluggable collectors
            append-only raw envelopes
                    ↓ deterministic ETL
             authenticated Focus loader
                    ↓
              Focus Convex (truth)
                    ↓
             Neo4j (read projection)

# The cited file must be tracked, clean, on a named branch, with one safe origin.
bun "$FOC" collect decision file=docs/decisions.md lines=12:14 action=create \
  text="Use Focus as the durable memory home." actor=codex confirm=true
# First sync only: verify the key, then bind this spool to its opaque Focus owner.
bun "$FOC" sync bind-owner=true
# Later syncs reject a different owner automatically.
bun "$FOC" sync
bun "$FOC" recall-decisions query="durable memory"
bun "$FOC" collector-status
bun "$FOC" receipt env_<id>

Correction and retirement take Focus IDs from a prior receipt; ETL never guesses a target by text. Factory receipts become provenance only, not decisions. There is no ambient transcript capture. The configured local origin supplies repository identity; it is not proof that the remote host advertises the commit. Collection proves the exact local commit/path/file hash with Git replacement objects disabled. Later sync validates the immutable envelope instead of depending on the current checkout, and archives it only after the server receipt matches every submitted operation. The spool stores only an opaque owner hash in owner.json; an unassigned spool requires explicit first-use binding, and a spool can never be loaded through a different Focus owner.

MCP server

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop/Code):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "focus-timer": {
      "command": "bun",
      "args": ["run", "/path/to/focus-timer-tools/mcp/src/stdio.ts"],
      "env": { "FOCUS_API_KEY": "ak_your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

Local tools also expose focus_collect, focus_sync_memory, focus_search_decisions, focus_collector_status, and focus_ingest_receipt. The hosted MCP exposes decision recall and receipts but not a fake remote filesystem collector. Existing tools: focus_report, focus_ask, focus_event, focus_recall, focus_learn, plus the timer tools (focus_status, focus_start, focus_pause, focus_resume, focus_skip, focus_reset, focus_stats).

Hosted (remote) MCP: https://mcp.jasonv.dev/api/mcp — authenticate with Authorization: Bearer ak_…. Advertised for agentic discovery at focus.jasonv.dev/.well-known/ai-catalog.json (ARD).

Auto-report — Claude Code hooks

Two hooks make every session report presence and commits with no manual calls — see GETTING_STARTED.md §5 for the ~/.claude/settings.json block (scripts/cc-fleet-hook.py + scripts/cc-commit-hook.py).

Claude skill

skills/focus-timer/SKILL.md — installed via npx skills add above (or drop into your skills dir). Wraps the CLI so an agent can pace its own work in focus blocks and report into the fleet.