# Tendem MCP server

This server lets your assistant hire Tendem's human experts: a task gets scoped, priced and returned as files or a report inside the chat.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI · ★ 102
- Author: Toloka
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/Toloka/tendem-mcp
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/tendem-mcp-server

## What it does

The hosted endpoint at `https://mcp.tendem.ai/mcp` exposes eleven tools, among them `create_task`, `get_contract`, `approve_task` and `get_task_result`. Your agent writes the brief, answers the service's follow-up questions, agrees on scope and cost, then collects the finished output.

Installing the plugin also drops in guidance: a `tendem-tasks` skill that walks the create → scope → approve → fetch path, the slash commands `/tendem-task`, `/tendem-status` and `/tendem-result`, a `tendem-watcher` background agent and a notification hook that fires on the desktop when a task waits for you. Codex gets the same entry points as `$tendem-task`.

Money moves only when `approve_task` runs. In an automated loop, put your own check in front of it and read `get_account` first, because a thin balance comes back as a top-up link tied to that task rather than a retryable failure. Headless and CI use needs an API key from the Agent builders tab at `agent.tendem.ai/mcp`; the interactive OAuth flow is not an option there.

## Requirements
- Remote server: `https://mcp.tendem.ai/mcp?utm_hash=b093faed05`

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http tendem-mcp 'https://mcp.tendem.ai/mcp?utm_hash=b093faed05'
```

### Codex

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add tendem-mcp-server --url 'https://mcp.tendem.ai/mcp?utm_hash=b093faed05'
```

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "tendem-mcp-server": {
            "url": "https://mcp.tendem.ai/mcp?utm_hash=b093faed05"
        }
    }
}
```

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "tendem-mcp-server": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.tendem.ai/mcp?utm_hash=b093faed05"
        }
    }
}
```

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http tendem-mcp-server 'https://mcp.tendem.ai/mcp?utm_hash=b093faed05'
```

## When to use it
- hand judgment-heavy research to a human expert
- see a fixed price before work starts
- pull the finished report and files into the chat
- track a running task without polling by hand
- wire human work into a CI pipeline

## Example prompts
- Send Tendem a competitive analysis task and show me the quote before I approve it
- Check my Tendem task and tell me whether it is waiting on input from me
- Fetch the finished Tendem result and save the files under `reports/`

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