Timers Studio — MCP Server

Public Model Context Protocol server for Timers Studio, the professional broadcast timer platform. Hosted at https://mcp.timers.studio/mcp. Lets Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and any MCP-aware client answer prospect questions about Timers Studio with first-party data: competitive positioning, use cases, personas, and recommended plans.

Scope

Read-only marketing surface. The server exists to help convert prospects researching Timers Studio in an LLM client. It returns positioning, competitor comparisons, use cases, and personas.

It does not control studios. Studio operations (start, pause, reset, agenda transport, message broadcast) live exclusively in the authenticated REST API on api.timers.studio and require a user account. That surface is intentionally not exposed via MCP.

Tools

All four tools are read-only and require no authentication.

Tool	Description
get_competitive_arsenal	Full machine-readable arsenal: 7 competitors, 4 use cases, 5 personas.
find_competitor	Positioning vs one competitor (slug or name). Slugs: stagetimer, shoflo, propresenter, cuez, planning-center-timer, dsan, cuetimer.
find_use_case	Fit + workflow for one use case. Slugs: broadcast-tv, live-event, conference, church.
find_persona	JTBD + recommended plan for one role. Slugs: show-caller, broadcast-engineer, event-producer, av-integrator, developer.

All tools fetch https://timers.studio/api/ai/context (cached 5 min in-memory).

Wire protocol

JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP, Streamable HTTP transport, stateless mode. Endpoint: https://mcp.timers.studio/mcp. Protocol version: 2025-03-26.

Supported methods: initialize, tools/list, tools/call, resources/list, resources/templates/list, prompts/list, ping, notifications/*.

Connecting from a client

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "timers-studio": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.timers.studio/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. Ask: "Compare Timers Studio with Stagetimer."

Smithery

Already published. Install with one click from the Smithery marketplace.

Generic HTTP MCP client

Point at https://mcp.timers.studio/mcp with Content-Type: application/json and JSON-RPC 2.0 payloads.

curl -X POST https://mcp.timers.studio/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Local development

npm install
npm run dev      # wrangler dev on http://localhost:8787

Smoke tests:

# tools/list
curl -X POST http://localhost:8787/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}' | jq

# call a read tool
curl -X POST http://localhost:8787/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"find_competitor","arguments":{"slug":"stagetimer"}}}' | jq

Deployment

Hosted on Cloudflare Workers. To deploy your own fork:

npx wrangler login
npm run deploy

Then configure your Cloudflare zone:

1. Add a DNS CNAME record (e.g. mcp → 100% proxy).
2. Workers Routes → bind mcp.<your-domain>/* to the worker.

Security model

• Read-only surface. Same data as https://timers.studio/api/ai/context, served via JSON-RPC instead of REST.
• No Bearer token, no auth, no forwarding to upstream APIs. The Worker has no credentials, no secrets, no path to the Timers Studio backend.
• Stateless. Nothing is cached per-user.
• CORS allows any origin on /mcp (MCP clients have no consistent Origin), appropriate for a public read endpoint.

Architecture

LLM client (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini / Perplexity / IDE)
      │
      │  JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTPS
      ▼
mcp.timers.studio/mcp  (Cloudflare Worker, stateless)
      │
      │  GET (cached 5 min)
      ▼
timers.studio/api/ai/context  (read-only marketing JSON)

The Worker is a thin JSON-RPC adapter on top of the public /api/ai/context endpoint. The competitive arsenal lives at timers.studio and is the single source of truth.

Related projects

• Timers Studio platform: timers.studio
• Documentation: docs.timers.studio
• AI manifest: timers.studio/api/ai/manifest
• Companion module: github.com/bitfocus/companion-module-timers-studio

License

MIT. See LICENSE.