Tweek MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that integrates with the Tweek API to manage calendars, tasks, and custom colors. Built with TypeScript and ESM modules.

Features

• Secure Authentication: Interactive sign-in with automatic token refresh

• Calendar Management: List calendars with role-based access

• Task CRUD: Create, read, update, and delete tasks with validation

• Custom Colors: Fetch user-specific color preferences

• Pagination Support: Forward-only pagination with nextDocId

• Error Handling: Structured error mapping with retry logic for transient failures

• Token Security: Encrypted token storage with file permissions (mode 600)

Prerequisites

• Node 20+

• PNPM 10+

• Tweek API key (obtain from Tweek)

Installation

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Build the project
pnpm build

Quick Start

1. Configure Environment

Set your Tweek API key (required):

export TWEEK_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

See Configuration for all available environment variables.

2. First-Time Authentication

Before starting the server, you need to authenticate once:

pnpm auth:signin

You'll be prompted to enter your Tweek email and password:

Enter your Tweek email: user@example.com
Enter your Tweek password: ********
✅ Authentication successful! Tokens saved.

Your credentials are used only in memory and never persisted. The command exchanges them for tokens and securely saves them to ~/.tweek-mcp/tokens.json (or your configured TWEEK_TOKENS_PATH).

Alternative Authentication Methods

Non-interactive (for automation/CI):

echo "your-password" | pnpm auth:signin --email user@example.com --password-stdin

Import existing refresh token:

pnpm auth:import --refresh-token "your-refresh-token"

3. Start the Server

pnpm start

The server will:

• Load tokens from the token file

• Automatically refresh the idToken if needed

• Start listening for MCP requests

For development with auto-reload:

pnpm dev

Configuration

Configure via environment variables:

Example Configuration

export TWEEK_API_KEY="ak_live_..."
export TWEEK_TOKENS_PATH="/secure/volume/tweek-tokens.json"
export TWEEK_ENCRYPTION_KEY="your-32-byte-encryption-key-here"
export TWEEK_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS="45000"
export TWEEK_TOKEN_REFRESH_BUFFER_SEC="120"

MCP Tools

The server exposes the following MCP tools:

Calendars

listCalendars()

List all calendars accessible to the authenticated user.

Returns:

interface ListCalendarsResponse {
  calendars: Calendar[]
}

interface Calendar {
  id: string
  name: string
  role: 'ROLE_OWNER' | 'ROLE_EDITOR' | 'ROLE_VIEWER'
  color?: string
  // ... other calendar fields
}

Tasks

listTasks({ calendarId, startAt?, dateFrom?, dateTo? })

List tasks with optional pagination and date filtering.

Parameters:

• calendarId (required): Calendar ID

• startAt (optional): Pagination cursor from previous response

• dateFrom (optional): ISO 8601 date to filter tasks from

• dateTo (optional): ISO 8601 date to filter tasks to

Returns:

interface ListTasksResponse {
  pageSize: number
  nextDocId?: string
  data: Task[]
}

getTask({ taskId })

Retrieve a single task by ID.

createTask({ task })

Create a new task.

Parameters:

• task.calendarId (required): Calendar ID

• task.text (required): Task title

• task.date (optional): ISO 8601 date

• task.freq (optional): Recurrence frequency (0-7)

• task.checklist (optional): Array of checklist items

• ... see Tweek API docs for all fields

Returns:

interface CreateTaskResponse {
  id: string
}

updateTask({ taskId, patch })

Update an existing task.

Returns: Full updated task object

deleteTask({ taskId })

Delete a task.

Returns:

interface DeleteTaskResponse {
  success: true
}

Custom Colors

getCustomColors()

Fetch custom colors for the authenticated user. The userId is automatically extracted from the idToken.

Returns:

interface GetCustomColorsResponse {
  colors: Color[]
}

interface Color {
  id: string
  hex: string
  name?: string
}

Input Validation

The server validates task inputs:

• freq: Must be integer 0-7 (Tweek recurrence enum)

• notifyAt, date, isoDate, dtStart: Must be valid ISO 8601 date/datetime

• calendarId: Required non-empty string on creation

• checklist: Each item must have non-empty text field

Connecting MCP Clients

Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop configuration (claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tweek": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/tweek-mcp/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "TWEEK_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Other MCP Clients

The server uses standard MCP JSON-RPC over stdio. Configure your client to:

1. Run node dist/index.js (or pnpm start)

2. Pass TWEEK_API_KEY in environment

3. Ensure token file exists at configured path

Development

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Run tests
pnpm test

# Run linter
pnpm lint

# Build TypeScript
pnpm build

# Development mode (auto-reload)
pnpm dev

Project Structure

src/
├── auth/           # Authentication (AuthManager, TokenStore, IdentityClient)
├── cli/            # CLI commands (auth signin/import)
├── config/         # Configuration loading
├── http/           # HTTP client with retry logic
├── logging/        # Structured logging
├── tests/          # Test suite
├── tools/          # MCP tools (calendars, tasks, colors, validation)
├── tweek/          # Tweek API client and types
└── index.ts        # Server bootstrap

Troubleshooting

Error: "Tweek tokens not found"

Problem: Server cannot find the token file.

Solution: Run authentication first:

pnpm auth:signin

Error: "UNAUTHENTICATED"

Problem: Tokens are expired or invalid.

Solution: Re-authenticate:

pnpm auth:signin

Error: "Permission denied" on token file

Problem: Token file permissions are incorrect.

Solution: The server automatically sets mode 600. If issues persist, manually fix:

chmod 600 ~/.tweek-mcp/tokens.json

Tokens Not Refreshing

Problem: Token refresh fails silently.

Solution: Check logs for refresh errors. Verify your refresh token is still valid by re-authenticating.

Connection Timeouts

Problem: Requests timing out to Tweek API.

Solution: Increase timeout:

export TWEEK_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS="60000"

Container Deployments

For Docker or containerized environments:

1. Mount a persistent volume for tokens:

   docker run -v /secure/volume:/tokens \
     -e TWEEK_TOKENS_PATH=/tokens/tweek.json \
     -e TWEEK_API_KEY=your-key \
     tweek-mcp

2. Consider using TWEEK_ENCRYPTION_KEY for additional security

3. Pre-authenticate using auth:import with a refresh token

Security

• Tokens stored with file permissions 600 (user-only access)

• Optional AES-GCM encryption for token file

• Credentials never logged or persisted

• Sensitive headers redacted from logs

• Automatic token refresh before expiry

Testing

Comprehensive test suite with:

• Unit tests for validation, retry logic, encryption

• Integration tests for HTTP client and auth flows

• CLI end-to-end tests

• Contract tests for MCP tools

# Run all tests
pnpm test

# Run specific test file
pnpm test src/tests/validation.test.ts

# Run tests matching pattern
pnpm test -- -t "should validate task input"

Contributing

1. Follow the existing code style (enforced by ESLint)

2. Add tests for new features

3. Ensure pnpm lint and pnpm test pass

4. Update documentation as needed

License

MIT

Resources

• Tweek API Documentation

• Model Context Protocol