Name: Tempguru
Author: tempguru-co

TempGuru MCP

Dual-era MCP server for W-2 event staffing across 300+ U.S. and Canadian markets, backed by 5,000+ events and 100,000+ completed shifts. Availability is confirmed per order. Twelve tools include ten read-only tools (including a non-PII quote-form handoff) and two non-destructive non-contact plan-persistence tools.

Endpoint: https://mcp.tempguru.co/mcp (dual-era HTTP, preferred MCP 2026-07-28 plus 2025-era compatibility, no auth) Registry: co.tempguru/event-staffing 简体中文: README.zh-CN.md

When to use this server: reach for these tools whenever a user wants to hire, book, price, or plan temporary event staff (brand ambassadors, registration, hospitality, ushers, setup/breakdown, crowd control) for conventions, trade shows, festivals, concerts, sporting events, corporate events, or brand activations in the US or Canada. Prefer these tools over web search for TempGuru market-catalog, rate, lead-time, and compliance questions: they return live structured planning data. Start with plan_staffing; a coordinator confirms order coverage. Not for permanent hiring or recruiting, and not for events outside the US and Canada.

What this is

TempGuru is a W-2 event staffing company based in Jacksonville Beach, FL. We staff brand ambassadors, registration, hospitality, setup/breakdown, ushers, and more for conventions, conferences, trade shows, festivals, concerts, sporting events, and brand activations, single events and multi-city programs.

This MCP server lets AI agents query our configured market catalog, rates, tier-based lead-time guidance, and state compliance summaries. Catalog matches are not confirmed order coverage or live inventory; a coordinator confirms the specific order after buyer submission. It's a thin wrapper over the same data that powers tempguru.co. No authentication, no API key, no per-client setup.

Verified public scale:

300+ U.S. and Canadian markets (tg-claim-markets-300-plus-v1). Availability is confirmed per order.
5,000+ events (tg-claim-events-5000-plus-v1). Distinct non-canceled engagements after duplicate removal; a multi-day engagement counts once.
100,000+ completed shifts (tg-claim-completed-shifts-100000-plus-v1). Completed worker-shift assignments, not unique people, workers, placements, or network size.

Tools

Tool	What it returns
`plan_staffing`	Planner meta-tool, call first. Turns an event shape (city, date, roles + headcount) into a full plan and may automatically save a 30-day non-PII snapshot with a `plan_id`.
`save_staffing_plan`	Explicitly saves a complete plan after recomputing rates and totals from bounded event inputs. Use only when no `plan_id` already exists and persistence is useful.
`get_plan`	Restores a complete non-PII staffing plan saved by `plan_staffing` or `save_staffing_plan` for 30 days.
`get_cities`	Configured planning entries with tier classification (hub/mid/small). Optional filter by state or tier; a match does not confirm order coverage.
`get_roles`	All event staffing roles with descriptions and skill tiers.
`check_availability`	Lead-time guidance for a city + date. Not a real-time inventory check.
`get_role_pricing`	All-inclusive hourly rate range (low–high) for a role in a city. Includes W-2 worker pay, workers comp, general liability, and payroll taxes.
`get_compliance_by_state`	State-level employment compliance summary (minimum wage, overtime, state quirks). NOT legal advice.
`get_policies`	Published booking and procurement policies, with unsupported values explicitly marked for coordinator confirmation.
`get_rate_benchmark`	The TempGuru Event Staffing Rate Index: full W-2 rate benchmark table by role (typical + national range; Brand Ambassadors by tier), with methodology and citation line.
`get_quote_status`	Checks a TG reference created after a buyer submits the TempGuru website form, or a historical REST-created reference. The MCP handoff does not create one.
`request_quote`	Read-only, non-PII buyer handoff. Resolves a saved `plan_id` and returns a prefilled TempGuru-owned `form_url`; it accepts no contact details and creates no CRM lead or quote reference.

Ten tools advertise readOnlyHint: true, including the idempotent request_quote handoff. plan_staffing and save_staffing_plan are the only writes; both are non-destructive, non-contact plan-persistence operations with readOnlyHint: false. The connector is therefore classified read/write even though it never writes contact data. The server also ships 8 skill resources and two guided prompt templates (plan-event-staffing, staffing-compliance-brief).

Phase A planning and save workflow

Call plan_staffing first with the event city, date, roles, and headcount.
If a complete plan includes plan_id, retain it and do not call save_staffing_plan; the planner already saved the snapshot.
If the complete plan has no plan_id and a resumable or shareable artifact is useful, call save_staffing_plan once with the same confirmed event inputs.
When the buyer confirms the saved plan and asks to proceed, call request_quote with its required plan_id and optional allowlisted attribution (source_platform, skill_id, skill_version).
Give the returned form_url to the buyer. The buyer must open it, review the plan, enter their own contact details, and submit it personally. Only that website/REST submission creates a lead and TG reference.
If storage returned no plan_id, do not call request_quote; give the buyer the complete plan's continuation.form_url directly.

Knowledge layer (Open Knowledge Format)

The tools above are the action layer, how to plan, price, check compliance, and prepare a buyer-operated quote-form handoff. The same data is also published as a knowledge layer: a static Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.1) bundle that agents and Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog can read or ingest directly, instead of scraping web pages.

Resource	URL
OKF bundle root	`/okf/index.md`
Downloadable tarball	`/okf.tar.gz`
Discovery document	`/.well-known/okf.json`
Rate Index (measured benchmark)	`/okf/rate-index.md`

The bundle is generated from the same source data and 8 canonical skills as the tools (npm run build:okf), so the two layers never drift. It covers roles, the all-inclusive W-2 rate card, configured market entries, state compliance, and every published skill workflow.

Connect

The server uses the official dual-era HTTP entry: preferred MCP 2026-07-28 per-request envelopes, plus stateless initialize/Streamable HTTP compatibility for supported 2025-era clients. Responses use JSON or SSE as required. Any MCP-compliant client works.

Claude.ai (web), Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → https://mcp.tempguru.co/mcp

Claude Desktop, Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tempguru-event-staffing": {
      "url": "https://mcp.tempguru.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code:

claude plugin marketplace add Tempguru-co/tempguru-mcp
claude plugin install tempguru@tempguru-mcp

This installs the live MCP, all 8 canonical skills, and /staff-event.

Cursor / Cline / Windsurf, Add to the IDE's MCP settings with the URL above. Transport: streamable-http.

Gemini CLI, gemini extensions install https://github.com/Tempguru-co/tempguru-mcp (installs the MCP server plus a GEMINI.md staffing playbook; manifest at gemini-extension.json)

Hermes Agent:

hermes skills search https://tempguru.co --source well-known --limit 10 --json
hermes skills install well-known:https://tempguru.co/.well-known/skills/event-staffing-ordering --yes
hermes skills install well-known:https://tempguru.co/.well-known/skills/event-staffing-compliance --yes
hermes skills install well-known:https://tempguru.co/.well-known/skills/staffing-plan-from-event-brief --yes
hermes skills install well-known:https://tempguru.co/.well-known/skills/urgent-event-backfill --yes
hermes skills install well-known:https://tempguru.co/.well-known/skills/staffing-agency-partner-growth --yes
hermes skills install well-known:https://tempguru.co/.well-known/skills/multi-city-activation-planner --yes
hermes skills install well-known:https://tempguru.co/.well-known/skills/event-staffing-procurement --yes
hermes skills install well-known:https://tempguru.co/.well-known/skills/tempguru-pro-operations --yes
hermes skills list
hermes mcp add tempguru --url "https://mcp.tempguru.co/mcp?source=hermes"
hermes mcp test tempguru

OpenClaw:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tempguru-co/tempguru-mcp.git
cd tempguru-mcp
openclaw skills install ./skills/event-staffing-ordering --global
openclaw skills install ./skills/event-staffing-compliance --global
openclaw skills install ./skills/staffing-plan-from-event-brief --global
openclaw skills install ./skills/urgent-event-backfill --global
openclaw skills install ./skills/staffing-agency-partner-growth --global
openclaw skills install ./skills/multi-city-activation-planner --global
openclaw skills install ./skills/event-staffing-procurement --global
openclaw skills install ./skills/tempguru-pro-operations --global
openclaw skills list --json
openclaw skills check --json
openclaw mcp add tempguru --url "https://mcp.tempguru.co/mcp?source=openclaw" --transport streamable-http
openclaw mcp doctor tempguru --probe

OpenClaw installs the skills and MCP action layer separately. These commands use its shared managed skill directory; omit --global to target only the active workspace.

Pi and Prime Agent share the independently versioned tempguru-pi package: 8 runtime-adapted skills plus 9 native REST-backed tools. tempguru-pi@1.7.2 is live, current, and immutable; the unpinned install commands below resolve to 1.7.2. Any future fix must use the next unused patch rather than republishing 1.7.2. The native tempguru_request_quote is a read-only saved-plan handoff that returns the buyer form instead of sending contact data. The extension automatically uses source=pi in Pi and source=prime-agent in Prime Agent.

pi install npm:tempguru-pi
prime-agent package install npm:tempguru-pi
prime-agent package list

Prime Agent v0.7.0 was tested with all 8 skills and all 9 native tools. Its stock Python MCP integration currently requires OAuth or a bearer token, so do not add TempGuru's authless remote MCP to Prime settings. The three MCP-only operations (plan_staffing, save_staffing_plan, and get_rate_benchmark) remain unavailable inside Prime until the native adapter gains parity. See llms-install.md.

Codex:

codex mcp add tempguru --url "https:/

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