About Microsoft 365 Calendar
Microsoft 365 Calendar is an MCP server for managing Outlook calendars through Microsoft Graph. It supports event operations and availability checks, while reusing the OAuth credentials managed by the Microsoft 365 Mail host integration.
Key features
- 01List and retrieve events
- 02Create, update, cancel, and delete events
- 03Accept or decline invitations
- 04Check availability and suggest meeting times
- 05List accessible calendars
Use cases
- 01Review events within a date range
- 02Find a time when attendees are available
- 03Create or revise a calendar meeting
MCP support
Exposes Microsoft Graph calendar operations to MCP clients, including event management, calendar listing, free/busy checks, and meeting-time suggestions. Authentication is handled by the host through Microsoft 365 Mail; this server reads the resulting credentials.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
npx -y @mindstone/mcp-server-microsoft-calendarMS_CLIENT_IDMicrosoft Entra (Azure AD) application client IDMS_CONFIG_DIRPath to the per-user Microsoft config directory (credentials/, accounts.json)MS_ACCOUNT_EMAILAccount email when running in multi-account per-instance mode (falls back to the first account in accounts.json)MS_MCP_PACKAGE_IDLogical package ID surfaced in error responsesMICROSOFT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MSOverride the upstream Microsoft Graph request timeout in milliseconds (max 300000 = 5 min)Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.
Tools
10Saved tool list · updated 2w ago
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| top | integer | No | Max events to return (default: 50) |
| calendarId | string | No | Calendar ID (default: primary calendar) |
| returnText | boolean | No | Return human-readable agenda text instead of JSON (default: false) |
| endDateTime | any | No | End date/time in ISO format (default: 7 days from now) |
| startDateTime | string | No | Start date/time in ISO format (default: now) |
| deviceTimezone | string | No | User's device IANA timezone from system prompt (e.g. "Europe/London"). Used as fallback if calendar settings unavailable, and for mismatch detection. |
Details
From the project README@mindstone/mcp-server-microsoft-calendar
Microsoft 365 Outlook Calendar MCP server — list, get, create, update, delete, cancel, and respond to events, check free/busy, find meeting times, and list calendars via the Microsoft Graph API.
Cohort-style Microsoft 365 calendar MCP. Reuses the OAuth surface owned by @mindstone/mcp-server-microsoft-mail so the host signs in once and gets calendar plus mail plus files plus Teams plus SharePoint from the same credentials.
Status
- Version: 0.2.0 · npm
- Auth: OAuth (host-orchestrated, shared with
mcp-server-microsoft-mail) (MS_CLIENT_ID) - Tools: 10 (events, calendars, free-busy, scheduling)
- Surface: cloud-api
- Machine-readable:
STATUS.json - Shared library:
@mindstone/mcp-server-microsoft-shared
Why this exists
When we ported this in May 2026, Microsoft's own Graph MCP lineup did not yet ship a stand-alone Outlook Calendar server, and the community options at the time treated calendar as its own login surface — every connector ran a separate OAuth dance and stored its own copy of the refresh token. We pulled the bundled connector out of MindstoneRebel as a 1:1 port so that the same five-connector Microsoft 365 cohort (mail, calendar, files, teams, SharePoint) shares a single set of credentials, a single shared-library package for token persistence and request timeouts, and the structured auth_required envelope the host already knows how to recover from. Calendar reuses @mindstone/mcp-server-microsoft-mail's authenticate_microsoft_account tool rather than declaring its own.
Example interaction
"What's on my calendar this afternoon, and find a 30-minute slot tomorrow when both Alice and I are free."
Tools the host calls:
list_events— date range covering the rest of today.find_meeting_times— suggests slots tomorrow when both Alice and the user are free.
Response (trimmed):
{
"today": [
{ "id": "AA...=", "subject": "Q3 review", "start": "2026-05-19T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-05-19T16:00:00Z" }
],
"tomorrow_suggestions": [
{ "start": "2026-05-20T10:00:00", "end": "2026-05-20T10:30:00" },
{ "start": "2026-05-20T14:30:00", "end": "2026-05-20T15:00:00" }
]
}
Requirements
- Node.js 20+
- npm
- A host application that performs the Microsoft OAuth flow and writes per-account token files into
${MS_CONFIG_DIR}/credentials/${sanitised-email}.token.jsonand an${MS_CONFIG_DIR}/accounts.jsonindex. This server reads those files; it does not initiate OAuth itself.
One-click install
After clicking the button, your host will prompt you to fill: MS_CLIENT_ID, MS_CONFIG_DIR, MS_MCP_PACKAGE_ID, MICROSOFT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS.
Manual config for Claude Desktop / Claude Code / Goose / Continue.dev (Microsoft 365 Calendar)
{
"mcpServers": {
"Microsoft 365 Calendar": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mindstone/mcp-server-microsoft-calendar"
],
"env": {
"MS_CLIENT_ID": "",
"MS_CONFIG_DIR": "",
"MS_MCP_PACKAGE_ID": "Microsoft365Calendar",
"MICROSOFT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS": "60000"
}
}
}
}
Quick Start
Install & build
cd <path-to-repo>/connectors/microsoft-calendar
npm install
npm run build
npx (once published)
npx -y @mindstone/mcp-server-microsoft-calendar
Local
node dist/index.js
Configuration
This server runs alongside a host application that owns the Microsoft 365 OAuth flow. The host writes credentials to disk; this server reads them.
Required environment variables
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
MS_CLIENT_ID | Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) application client ID. |
MS_CONFIG_DIR | Path to the per-user Microsoft config directory (credentials/, accounts.json). |
Optional environment variables
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
MS_ACCOUNT_EMAIL | Account email when running in multi-account per-instance mode. | First account in accounts.json. |
MS_MCP_PACKAGE_ID | Logical package ID surfaced in error responses. | Microsoft365Calendar |
MICROSOFT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS | Override the upstream Microsoft Graph request timeout (max 300000 ms). | 60000 |
MICROSOFT_DISABLE_REFRESH | Set to 1 to disable token refresh on this surface. Tools fail closed with the structured auth_required response so the host can drive reauth. Cloud surfaces set this to 1. | unset |
Host configuration examples
Claude Desktop / Cursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"Microsoft365Calendar": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@mindstone/mcp-server-microsoft-calendar"],
"env": {
"MS_CLIENT_ID": "your-entra-application-client-id",
"MS_CONFIG_DIR": "/absolute/path/to/microsoft-config"
}
}
}
}
Sign in via @mindstone/mcp-server-microsoft-mail's authenticate_microsoft_account first; the calendar tools then reuse the credentials it writes to ${MS_CONFIG_DIR}/.
Local development (no npm publish needed)
{
"mcpServers": {
"Microsoft365Calendar": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["<path-to-repo>/connectors/microsoft-calendar/dist/index.js"],
"env": {
"MS_CLIENT_ID": "your-entra-application-client-id",
"MS_CONFIG_DIR": "/absolute/path/to/microsoft-config"
}
}
}
}
Tools (10)
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
list_events | List calendar events within a date range (JSON with per-attendee RSVP status, or agenda-style text). Reports truncated: true when Graph has more pages — narrow the range or raise top (max 100). |
get_event | Get detailed information about a specific calendar event (optionally including attachment metadata; attachmentsTruncated flags further pages). |
create_event | Create a new calendar event (with optional Teams meeting and recurrence). |
update_event | Update an existing calendar event (including adding/removing attendees and recurrence). |
delete_event | Delete a calendar event. |
cancel_event | Cancel a meeting as organizer with an optional message to attendees. |
respond_to_event | Accept, decline, or tentatively accept an event invitation. |
get_free_busy | Check availability/free-busy status for users. |
find_meeting_times | Suggest slots when all given attendees are free. Slots are only suggested when availability for every requested attendee was resolved; otherwise the unresolved attendees are listed in unresolvableAttendees. |
list_calendars | List all calendars the user has access to. |
Security notes
- No authentication tool of its own; sign-in is delegated to
@mindstone/mcp-server-microsoft-mailso the cohort has a single OAuth surface. - Token files are written by the host with mode
0600; this server reads them via the cohort-shared library, which fails closed on malformed files. MICROSOFT_DISABLE_REFRESH=1is the default on cloud surfaces so the desktop session remains the sole refresh-token authority.- Per-tool Graph calls run under a composed caller + cohort timeout signal.
- All Graph-sourced text is returned inside
<untrusted-content>envelopes; structural-looking fields (IDs, URLs, enum-like values, timestamps) pass through raw only when they match their documented closed format and are enveloped otherwise. Vendor error messages are enveloped before they reach the model. - Tool inputs are validated fail-closed (email addresses, ISO date-times, bounded numerics, strict recurrence objects) before any Graph request is made.
- Event/calendar IDs interpolated into Graph request paths are validated fail-closed (rejecting
?,#,%,\, whitespace, and./..segments) before any network request and URL-encoded at the interpolation site, so a crafted ID cannot reroute the authenticated request. - Graph pagination is never silently dropped: list endpoints report
truncated/attachmentsTruncatedinstead of following vendor-supplied continuation URLs.
Licence
FSL-1.1-MIT — Functional Source License, Version 1.1, with MIT future licence. Free for non-competing use; relicenses to MIT on the converter date in LICENSE.
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