Tick MCP Server

A time server that keeps your AI honest about time. Real clock + drift guard, zero dependencies.

Local serverstdioPython

What is the Tick MCP server?

Tick MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Tick directly instead of describing what you should do. A time server that keeps your AI honest about time. Real clock + drift guard, zero dependencies.

What you get

Your AI assistant has no clock. It guesses time from context — and in long chats it fails: calls a 10-minute-old message "yesterday", says "good night" at 2 PM, plans "tomorrow" from a date three days stale. If you run multi-day working sessions with Claude, you've seen it.

What the assistant can call

Once Tick is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:

  • local — stdio
  • remote — Streamable HTTP
  • hook — Claude Code hook

Setting it up

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.

Choosing this one

Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Tick's toolset — local, remote, hook — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by Cocabadger; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Before you rely on it

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the tick mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
localstdio
remoteStreamable HTTP
hookClaude Code hook

How to install the Tick MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tick": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["/Users/YOU/mcp/tick/server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Tick to local.
  • Use Tick to remote.
  • Use Tick to hook.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Tick to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 3 tools (local, remote, hook) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Tick directly.