Summary
Crewmeister, German time tracking, absence planning and shift planning for small businesses: members, teams and roles, absences and leave balances, clock stamps, durations, overtime balances, working time models, shifts, templates and workplaces. API v3 with a login token.
Guided setup
Connect Crewmeister to Microsoft Copilot in 2 minutes
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Example prompts for Crewmeister
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → Crewmeister, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key — done. No Docker, no
git clone, no local server.
Crewmeister + Microsoft Copilot
Crewmeister, German time tracking, absence planning and shift planning for small businesses: members, teams and roles, absences and leave balances, clock stamps, durations, overtime balances, working time models, shifts, templates and workplaces. API v3 with a login token.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
CREWMEISTER_EMAIL, CREWMEISTER_PASSWORD
Step 1 — Get credentials
The connector signs in to Crewmeister API v3 with the e-mail address and password of a Crewmeister user, receives a token and logs in again on its own when it expires. It sees exactly what that user may see.
- Pick or create a Crewmeister user with an e-mail and password login for the integration. Single sign-on accounts without a Crewmeister password cannot log in. Use a crew owner or manager account for company-wide data; an ordinary member sees only their own records.
- Put the login e-mail into
CREWMEISTER_EMAILand the password intoCREWMEISTER_PASSWORD. Check first that the same pair signs in at app.crewmeister.com. - Start with
crewmeister_list_membersfor each person'suserIdandcrewmeister_list_crewsfor thecrewId, thencrewmeister_list_absence_typesto map absence type ids to names.
Things to know:
- Some tools answer 400 without fixed filters:
crewmeister_list_durationsandcrewmeister_list_calendar_daysneedcrewId==<id>plus a date or date range,crewmeister_list_duration_balancesandcrewmeister_list_entitlement_balancesneedcrewId==<id>;date==<day>, andcrewmeister_list_absence_entitlementsneedscrewId==<id>. - Filters are RSQL, for example
userId==123;date=ge=2026-09-01;date=le=2026-09-30. Pages start at 0 and hold 20 items by default. - For hours worked use durations, for who is clocked in now use today's stamps, and for remaining vacation use
crewmeister_list_entitlement_balances. - The crew's join password and members' terminal PIN codes are removed from the answers. The connector uses API v3 only; v2 was retired on 31 March 2026.
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Microsoft Copilot
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Microsoft Copilot uses MCP servers through agents built in Copilot Studio: you add AnythingMCP to an agent as a tool, then publish the agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud over Streamable HTTP, which AnythingMCP supports.
- In Copilot Studio, open your agent (or create one), go to Tools and choose Add a tool → New tool → Model Context Protocol.
- Enter a Server name (for example
AnythingMCP), a Server description that says what the connector does, and the Server URLhttps://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. Copilot Studio uses the description to decide when to call the server. - Under authentication, choose API key, set Type to Header and the header name to
X-API-Key, then select Create. - In Add tool, choose Create a new connection, paste an MCP API key from AnythingMCP (MCP Servers → your server → API keys) and select Add to agent.
- Try it in the agent's Test pane: ask for something that needs the
Crewmeistertools. - Select Publish, then Channels → Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, keep Make agent available in Microsoft Copilot selected and choose Add channel. See agent in Teams installs it for you; in Microsoft 365 Copilot, type @ and pick the agent.
Prefer per-user sign-in? Choose OAuth 2.0 → Dynamic discovery instead of an API key: each user then signs in to AnythingMCP the first time the agent calls it.
Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud, so localhost does not work.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
crewmeister_list_members | List the members (employees) of the crew with id, userId, name, e-mail, employee id, first and last working day and disabled flag |
crewmeister_get_member | Return one member by its member id with name, e-mail, userId, employee id, language, working-day range and disabled flag |
crewmeister_list_teams | List the teams of the crew with their name and the userIds that belong to each team |
crewmeister_list_member_roles | List role assignments: which user is MANAGER, SETTING_MANAGER or MANAGER_READ_ONLY, for which product and team |
crewmeister_list_crews | List the crews (companies) the logged-in user can access, with id, name, creation date and owner |
crewmeister_list_absences | List absences (vacation, sickness and other leave) with user, absence type id, from and to dates, day parts and state (DRAFT, REQUESTED… |
crewmeister_get_absence | Return one absence by id with its dates, day parts, state, state changes and the working days it covers |
crewmeister_list_absence_types | List the absence type settings: name, absenceTypeId, linked entitlement, whether members can request or create it, validity period and… |
crewmeister_list_absence_entitlements | List the entitlement categories (leave allowances such as annual leave) of a crew with id and name |
crewmeister_list_entitlement_balances | Return remaining leave per user and entitlement as of one date (balance in days) |
crewmeister_list_entitlement_adjustments | List manual adjustments to leave entitlements (carry-over, extra days, corrections) per user, entitlement and date, with the adjustment… |
crewmeister_list_absence_working_days | List the working days an absence covers, with the date and the length counted (1 for a full day, 0.5 for half a day) |
crewmeister_list_stamps | List raw clock events (START_WORK, START_BREAK, CLOCK_OUT) with timestamp, user, location, note, status and time categories |
crewmeister_list_durations | List aggregated durations per user, date and type (e.g |
crewmeister_list_duration_balances | Return running time account balances (e.g. overtime, can be negative) per user as of one date |
crewmeister_list_bookings | List processed time bookings per user and date with duration, time account type, origin (STAMPS, ABSENCES, SHIFTS, CORRECTIONS, PAYOUTS… |
crewmeister_list_time_accounts | List the time account types of the crew (e.g. regular working time, overtime) with their type key and description |
crewmeister_list_time_categories | List time categories (projects, cost centres or tasks on levels 1 to 5) that stamps and bookings are tagged with, with id, level and name |
crewmeister_list_working_time_models | List the working time models: target hours per weekday and automatic break rules that apply to users or teams |
crewmeister_list_calendar_days | List calendar day kinds (working day, weekend, public holiday, possibly split into morning and afternoon) for dates, as used in time and… |
crewmeister_list_shifts | List planned shifts with user, start and end, break, workplace, notes, publication type and shift-offer details |
crewmeister_get_shift | Return one shift by id with user, times, break, workplace, notes and shift-offer settings |
crewmeister_list_shift_templates | List the reusable week templates of the shift planner with id and name |
crewmeister_list_template_shifts | List the shifts inside shift templates with times, offsets, break, workplace and assigned user |
crewmeister_list_workplaces | List the workplaces (locations or work areas) shifts are assigned to, with name, linked time category and disabled date |
crewmeister_create_stamp | Record a clock event for a user: START_WORK to clock in, START_BREAK to start a break, CLOCK_OUT to clock out |
crewmeister_create_absence | Create an absence for a user: a request (state REQUESTED) that a manager approves, or, for managers, an approved entry |
FAQ
Which Copilot is this for? Microsoft 365 Copilot at work, through agents built in Copilot Studio. The Microsoft Copilot app for personal accounts has no option to add your own MCP server.
What do I need? A work account with access to Copilot Studio (a license or a trial) to build the agent. People who use it in Microsoft 365 Copilot or Teams need access to the agent: share it with them, or ask an admin to publish it to the organization. If your organization applies data policies to Power Platform connectors, they cover MCP servers too.
The agent doesn't call the tools. Check that the header name is exactly X-API-Key and that the key belongs to the same MCP server as the URL, and make the server description specific: Copilot Studio uses it to decide when to call the server. Publish the agent again after each change; in an open chat, type "start over" to get the new version.
Next steps
- Connector landing page
- Connect to Claude
- Connect to ChatGPT
- Connect to Cursor
- Connect to Gemini
- Connect to Meta Muse
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