Teamwork MCP: client projects and time tracking in chat

Getting Teamwork into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Teamwork free and sign in with your Teamwork account.
2. 2Time entries carry a billing state, so decide who logs them. Keep search and task lookups, and switch off time logging or task updates if your AI app should only report.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app which tasks on a client project are overdue and who owns them, then open Activity to see the calls.

Project management from Claude or ChatGPT

• Search across projects, tasks, milestones, people and time entries.
• Filter tasks by project, assignee, dates, tags or completion.
• Create a task with assignee, dates and estimate, or update one.
• Log time against a task, with billing state and tags.
• Check milestones by due date or assignee.

Projects and hours on the record

• Switch off time logging and task updates; they're hidden and refused if called.
• Policies check every call and can hide clients' personal data.
• Activity records every task created and every hour logged through your AI apps.

What you get with Teamwork and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use TeamworkClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Teamwork through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Teamwork tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Teamwork tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Teamwork. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Create TagCreate a Teamwork tag, or return the existing installation tag when the same name already exists.
• Create TaskCreate a task in a Teamwork task list with common scheduling, assignment, estimate, privacy, and tag fields.
• List MilestonesList visible Teamwork milestones by project, status, due-date range, assignee, or text. Returns one page and an opaque continuation cursor.
• List PeopleList people visible to the connected Teamwork user for assignment and ownership workflows.
• List ProjectsList projects visible to the connected Teamwork user, with focused filters for name, status, company, membership, and archival state. Returns one page and an opaque continuation cursor.
• List TagsList Teamwork tags visible to the connected user, optionally filtered by project, item type, name, or usage. Returns one page and an opaque continuation cursor.
• List Task ListsList Teamwork task lists, usually within one or more projects, so an agent can place or locate tasks.
• List TasksList and filter Teamwork tasks by project, task list, assignee, dates, completion state, or tags. Returns one page and an opaque cursor for continuation.
• List Time EntriesList accessible Teamwork time entries by project, task, person, date range, billing state, or tags. Returns one page and an opaque continuation cursor.
• Log Time EntryLog time against a Teamwork task with a date, duration, optional start time, description, person, billing state, and tags without changing task status.
• Search TeamworkSearch across Teamwork projects, tasks, task lists, milestones, people, companies, time entries, and other supported item types. Returns one page of lightweight references, optional sideloaded details
• Update TaskUpdate selected fields of an existing Teamwork task while leaving omitted task fields unchanged.