# icloud-calendar-mcp MCP Server

MCP server for iCloud (Apple) Calendar access via CalDAV

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@icloud-calendar-mcp/server` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**7 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### [BUG] create_event rejects the ISO 8601 datetime format its own schema advertises

## Description

`create_event` and `update_event` reject any `start_time` or `end_time` that carries a UTC designator or a UTC offset.
The input schema for `create_event` documents the opposite:

https://github.com/icloud-calendar-mcp/icloud-calendar-mcp/blob/main/src/main/kotlin/org/onekash/mcp/calendar/Main.kt#L416

```kotlin
put("description", JsonPrimitive("Start time (ISO 8601, e.g., 2025-01-15T09:00:00Z)"))
```

The validator behind it accepts neither the `Z` in that example nor an `+HH:MM

[Read the thread](https://github.com/icloud-calendar-mcp/icloud-calendar-mcp/issues/14) · 2026-08-04 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### [BUG] get_events returns all-day events that ended before the requested day

## Description

An all-day event that ends *before* the requested day is returned by `get_events` and shows up as an event for that day. A two-day event covering 7/25–7/26 is reported when querying 7/27.

Two things combine here:

1. iCloud's CalDAV server returns all-day events whose **exclusive `DTEND` lands exactly on the query start**. RFC 4791 §9.9 defines the overlap test as `(DTSTART < end) AND (DTEND > start)`, so a `DTEND` that merely touches the start must not match.
2. `CalendarServic

[Read the thread](https://github.com/icloud-calendar-mcp/icloud-calendar-mcp/issues/10) · 2026-07-27 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### [BUG] get_events reports the master DTSTART of a recurring series instead of the occurrence date

## Description

For recurring events, `get_events` returns the **master series' `DTSTART`** rather than the date of the occurrence that actually falls in the requested range.

A yearly event created in 2023 is reported as a 2023 event when queried for 2026, even though iCloud correctly matched the 2026 occurrence server-side. Any consumer that groups or filters by date — daily agendas, briefings, reminders — shows recurring events under the wrong date, and for a long-lived yearly series the repo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/icloud-calendar-mcp/icloud-calendar-mcp/issues/8) · 2026-07-27 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### [BUG] get_events response truncated at ~20845 characters

## Description

When calling `get_events` with a date range containing many events, the response is truncated mid-JSON at approximately 20845 characters, making it impossible to process the full result.

This appears to be a server-side response size limit.

**Suggested fix:** Add pagination support (e.g. `page`/`limit` parameters) or increase the response size limit.

## Steps to Reproduce

2. Ask Claude to list a larger range of dates
3. MCP Tool Logs show: 
```
DefaultDispatcher-worker-1] IN

[Read the thread](https://github.com/icloud-calendar-mcp/icloud-calendar-mcp/issues/5) · 2026-06-09 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### [BUG] list_calendars and get_events always return "Tool execution failed". Logs show results

## Description

When calling `list_calendars` or `get_events` from Claude, Claude receives a "Tool execution failed" error, even though the MCP server responds correctly. The response is visible in the server logs as a valid JSON-RPC result.

Log example for `list_calendars`:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":4,"result":{"content":[{"text":"{\"calendars\":[...]}","type":"text"}]}}

The server side works fine — the issue is that Claude never receives the result or cannot pars it. 

**Environment:** Claude De

[Read the thread](https://github.com/icloud-calendar-mcp/icloud-calendar-mcp/issues/4) · 2026-06-09 · closed · external user · 7 comments

[See all 7 reports Pod holds for icloud-calendar-mcp](/mcp/icloud-calendar-mcp/issues).

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