Teachworks MCP by usefulapi MCP Server

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Teachworks MCP by usefulapi is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 24 tools. Last commit 10 Oct 2026.

Read Teachworks students, families, tutors, lessons, invoices and payments; book lessons.

Uptime history 71 hours of history

71 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

116 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 10 Oct 2026

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

9 Oct a tool changed version4 times that day

and 3 more, back to 9 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Teachworks MCP by usefulapi every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add teachworks --transport http https://teachworks.usefulapi.io/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "teachworks": {
      "url": "https://teachworks.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.teachworks]
url = "https://teachworks.usefulapi.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "teachworks": {
      "url": "https://teachworks.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "teachworks": {
      "url": "https://teachworks.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 24

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

teachworks

teachworks_add_student_to_lesson

WRITE: add a student to an existing lesson (the lesson must still be Scheduled). PUT /lessons/{id}/add_student.

teachworks_create_child_student

WRITE: create a child student under an existing family (the family is billed for their lessons). POST /students.

teachworks_create_family

WRITE: create a family customer (the billed parent profile that child students belong to). Add children afterwards with teachworks_create_child_student. POST /customers/family.

teachworks_create_lesson

WRITE: schedule a single lesson on the calendar for one or more students with a teacher, service and location. Check teachworks_list_availabilities and teachworks_list_lessons first to avoid conflicts. POST /lessons.

teachworks_create_payment

WRITE: record a payment received from a customer (bookkeeping only — it does not charge a card). POST /payments.

teachworks_get_customer

Retrieve one customer (family or independent student) with contact details and custom fields. GET /customers/{id}.

teachworks_get_employee

Retrieve one employee (teacher or staff): contact details, subjects, wage type, bio, permissions. GET /employees/{id}.

teachworks_get_employee_earnings

Total earnings of one employee (lessons, other events, other compensation, total) for an optional lesson status and date range. GET /employees/{id}/earnings.

teachworks_get_invoice

Retrieve one invoice with its line items (lessons, charges), taxes and totals. GET /invoices/{id}.

teachworks_get_lesson

Retrieve one lesson with its participants (students, statuses, charges, notes), teacher, wage and cost. GET /lessons/{id}.

teachworks_get_lesson_totals

Lesson totals for one student, customer or employee: count (default), duration in minutes, or (employees only) earnings, broken down by status, for an optional status and date range. GET /{students|customers|employees}/{id}/lesson_totals.

teachworks_get_payment

Retrieve one payment with its refunds and the invoices it is allocated to. GET /payments/{id}.

teachworks_get_student

Retrieve one student profile: contact details, school/grade, billing, custom fields, default teachers/services. GET /students/{id}.

teachworks_list_availabilities

List teachers' weekly availability slots (day of week + start/end time). Use before scheduling a lesson. GET /availabilities.

teachworks_list_customers

List or search customers — the billed profiles: families (with child students) and independent students. Returns contact details, status and last invoice date. GET /customers.

teachworks_list_employees

List or search employees — teachers/tutors and administrative staff — with subjects, status and wage settings. GET /employees.

teachworks_list_invoices

List invoices with customer, number, dates, status (Saved, Approved, Paid, Void) and totals. Filter by customer, status, invoice date or due date range. GET /invoices.

teachworks_list_lessons

List lessons (the calendar) with teacher, service, location, start/end, duration, status and participants. Filter by teacher, student, location, service, status and date range. GET /lessons.

teachworks_list_locations

List locations and sub-locations (rooms) where lessons take place. GET /locations.

teachworks_list_other_events

List non-lesson calendar events (meetings, open houses, staff work) with location, times and participants. GET /other_events.

teachworks_list_payments

List customer payments (amount, method, date, refunds, invoice allocations). Filter by customer and date range. GET /payments.

teachworks_list_services

List services (lesson types such as 'Math Tutoring') with their default cost and wage. GET /services.

teachworks_list_students

List or search students (child students of families and independent students) with their school, grade, subjects, status, billing method and default teachers. GET /students.

teachworks_list_subjects

List standard subjects (used on student and teacher profiles). GET /subjects.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://teachworks.usefulapi.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	76 ms	1 min ago

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Teachworks MCP by usefulapi — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Teachworks MCP by usefulapi do?

It exposes 24 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: teachworks_add_student_to_lesson, teachworks_create_child_student, teachworks_create_family, teachworks_create_lesson, teachworks_create_payment, teachworks_get_customer and 18 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Teachworks MCP by usefulapi working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 116 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Teachworks MCP by usefulapi?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Teachworks MCP by usefulapi need an API key?

No. Teachworks MCP by usefulapi completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 24 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Teachworks MCP by usefulapi?

It answers our handshake in 116 ms on average, which is faster than 79% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Teachworks MCP by usefulapi open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.