A built-in plugin that lets external tools write events to your Sidefy timeline via MCP — from a chat assistant or a scheduled agent.
Sidefy is adding External Events — a built-in event source plugin that lets MCP clients (and future integrations) write events into Sidefy and show them on the timeline alongside calendar, RSS, GitHub, and other sources.
This builds on the experimental MCP server described in MCP Server: Let AI Assistants Manage Sidefy →. MCP must be enabled to create or edit events from outside Sidefy.
What You Can Do
With MCP connected, you can add events from a chat assistant or from an automated agent — a focus block, a daily briefing, a release marker, or anything else that belongs on your day.
Example 1 — ask your assistant in chat
Your afternoon is stacked with meetings, but you still need two uninterrupted hours for the SideScript rule you have been putting off. In Cursor or Claude Desktop — already connected to Sidefy over MCP — you describe what you want in plain language:
Block 2–4pm today on my Sidefy timeline for deep work. Title it “Deep work block”, use purple, and add a note: finish the hide-newsletter rule and test it with preview.
The assistant creates the event without you opening Sidefy. Within moments it appears on today’s timeline as a two-hour color bar between your lunch and the next call — same bubbles, same popovers as a calendar block, but written by the tool you were already talking to. If plans shift, ask it to update or delete the block the same way.
Example 2 — a scheduled agent writes to your timeline
Set up a morning cron job in Hermes Agent or OpenClaw — with Sidefy configured as an MCP server in that agent’s tools. When the job finishes — say, after compiling a daily news digest — it calls Sidefy over MCP and writes the result onto today’s timeline: an 8am “Morning digest” block with the top picks in the notes, plus short markers at lunch for longer reads.
The digest shows up beside your meetings and reminders — no separate app, no digging through chat logs.
Getting Started
- Enable Experimental Features and MCP Server (see MCP Server: Let AI Assistants Manage Sidefy →)
- Confirm External Events is enabled under Plugins
- Connect your MCP client or agent with the Bearer token from Experimental Features
- Ask your assistant to create an external event, or call the MCP tools yourself
Note: External Events and the MCP server are experimental features. Writable MCP tools may make incorrect changes — review results after they run. External tools can only write events while Sidefy is running with MCP enabled, including scheduled agent jobs.
For available MCP tools and usage, see the Sidefy tool documentation in your connected client.