Service Report

mcp-work-order

In the official MCP Registry (io.github.theluckystrike/work-order). Job orders for trades and field work, kept the way a job card is kept. Raise a work order against a client (the same client record your invoices use), give it a site address, the date it was asked for, what the job is and how urgent. Log what the job actually used as it goes: labour as hours at a rate, parts as a quantity at a unit cost with an optional markup. Move it along one step at a time, draft to scheduled to in progress to done to invoiced, each step stamped with its date and a note. When it is finished, hand the customer a completion report with the hours, the materials, the totals and a sign-off block, and take the invoice payload straight to invoice_create without retyping a single figure.

Nothing is invented and nothing is stored twice: the value, the hours, the materials and the VAT are derived from the lines on every call, and the invoice payload's unit prices are already the billed units, so the invoice reproduces the work order to the minor unit.

npm publish for @theluckystrike/mcp-work-order is pending, so npx -y @theluckystrike/mcp-work-order returns 404 today. Until then, the .mcpb one-click bundle or a clone+build is the working path.

Install

Claude Desktop

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

{  "mcpServers": {    "work-order": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "@theluckystrike/mcp-work-order"]    }  }}

Claude Code

claude mcp add work-order -- npx -y @theluckystrike/mcp-work-order

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (project), same entry as Claude Desktop.

Tools

Free vs Pro

The cap counts OPEN work orders (draft, scheduled, in progress), not the ones you have ever raised, so finishing a job frees its slot. So does work_order_delete on a draft that has no lines, which is free on every tier: a way back that only a Pro key can reach is not a way back.

Get Pro: https://mcp.zovo.one/buy/work-order (one-time $19, lifetime), or all servers for $39: https://mcp.zovo.one/buy/bundle

Where the money comes from

This server keeps no arithmetic of its own. computeTotals, currencyDecimals, formatMoney and roundHalfUp are imported from @theluckystrike/mcp-invoice/lib, the A4 renderer from @theluckystrike/mcp-billing-docs/lib, the corrupt-store quarantine from @theluckystrike/mcp-timezone/lib. The VAT rate, the currency and the business name come from the shared business profile that business_set in the invoice server writes; the client comes from that server's client records. Nothing is written outside this server's own directory.

The measured insight

A markup belongs on the unit cost, not on the line total, and one minor unit is what says so. Seven parts at EUR 12.99 with 15 percent on top is EUR 14.94 a unit and EUR 104.58 on the line. Marking up the line total instead is round(9093 * 1.15) = 10,457 minor units, a cent less. Both look like the same sum, and only one of them is the figure the customer will be billed: the invoice server rounds the unit price to the minor unit first and multiplies (its D-R24 basis), so a work order that quotes the line-total figure quotes a number its own invoice cannot reproduce. The gap appears on every line whose marked-up unit does not land on a whole cent, it never nets out across lines because it is a rounding direction and not an error, and it is invisible in a spreadsheet check because both bases add up correctly. The unit suite asserts the 1-unit gap explicitly, so a change of basis fails the build instead of quietly re-pricing every job on the board.

Privacy

All data stays on your machine, in ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/mcp-servers/work-order/. Nothing is sent anywhere. There is no account and no API key. License keys are verified offline. This server reads one sibling file, the invoice server's clients.json, and writes into no store but its own.

Built by theluckystrike. https://github.com/theluckystrike

Use these docs as an MCP server

Any MCP client (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code) can read this repository's documentation directly via GitMCP - no install:

• Docs MCP URL: https://gitmcp.io/theluckystrike/mcp-work-order