--- title: "Connect actiTIME to Minor Planet Center - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Customer\" fires in actiTIME, your agent runs \"Find MPECs\" in Minor Planet Center." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/actitime-to-minor-planet-center" --- # Connect actiTIME to Minor Planet Center When **New Customer** fires in [actiTIME](https://apiant.ai/connections/actitime), your agent runs **Find MPECs** in [Minor Planet Center](https://apiant.ai/connections/minor-planet-center). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. actiTIME **7** triggers actiTIME **14** actions Minor Planet Center **11** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want actiTIME and Minor Planet Center to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What actiTIME can start in Minor Planet Center - When **New Customer** in actiTIME then **Find MPECs** in Minor Planet Center - When **New Project** in actiTIME then **Find near-duplicate observations** in Minor Planet Center Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with actiTIME and Minor Planet Center ## Triggers and actions 7 triggers · 25 actions - Trigger **New Customer** Triggers when a new customer is created. - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created. - Trigger **New Task** Triggers when a new task is created. - Trigger **New User** Triggers when a new user is created. - Trigger **Updated Leave Time** Triggers when the user's leave time is changed. - Trigger **Updated Task** Triggers when an existing task is changed. - Trigger **Updated Time-Track** Triggers when the user's working time is changed. - Action **Create Customer** Creates a new customer. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project. - Action **Create Task** Creates a new task. - Action **Create User** creates a user account (firstName, lastName, email, username, password required; optional middleName, active, hired, releaseDate, departmentId, timeZoneGroupId). - Action **Find Customer** Finds the customer by name. - Action **Find Project** Finds project by name - Action **Find Task** Finds the task by name. - Action **Get Time-Track** Returns one time-track record (taskId, time, comment) - Action **List Leave Time** Lists leave-time records (userId, date, leaveTypeId, leaveTime) - Action **Modify Leave Time** Modifies the leave time record by replacing the existing value with a specified one. - Action **Modify Leave Time (Increase Time)** Modifies the leave time record by increasing the existing value by a specified value. - Action **Modify Time-Track** Modifies the time-track record by replacing the existing value with a specified one (along with the time-track record comment). - Action **Modify Time-Track (Increase Time)** Modifies the time-track record by increasing the existing value by a specified value. - Action **Update Task** updates a task's name, description, status/workflowStatusId, projectId, typeOfWorkId, deadline or estimatedTime. - Action **Find MPECs** Search Minor Planet Electronic Circulars by object or search terms, optionally filtered by issue date range. - Action **Find near-duplicate observations** Search the MPC's published observation database for near-duplicates of a given observation by time and angular proximity. - Action **Get action code** Resend an observation submission's action code (used to retract observations or label objects) to the email address on file. - Action **Get magnitude band** Retrieve reference information for a magnitude band used in MPC observations, or all bands. - Action **Get NEOCP observations** Retrieve observation data for an object currently on the Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page by tracklet identifier. - Action **Get object identifier** Look up the designations and identification details for a minor planet or comet given a name, provisional or permanent designation. - Action **Get observations** Retrieve recorded astrometric observation data for a solar system object by designation. - Action **Get observation status** Check the processing status of individual submitted observations by tracklet/station, observation ID, obs80 string, or submission block ID. - Action **Get observatory codes** Retrieve details for one or all observatories registered with the MPC by observatory code. - Action **Get orbital elements** Retrieve orbital elements and related parameters for a solar system object by designation. - Action **List objects** List solar system objects belonging to a named group such as NEOs, comets, or TNOs, ordered by designation. ## Each app on its own - [ **actiTIME** actiTIME is a time tracking & scope management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connections/actitime) - [ **Minor Planet Center** Asterank's Minor Planet Center endpoint serves orbital and physical data on asteroids and minor planets.](https://apiant.ai/connections/minor-planet-center) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from actiTIME - [ **actiTIME to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/actitime-to-hubspot) - [ **actiTIME to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/actitime-to-salesforce) - [ **actiTIME to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/actitime-to-slack) - [ **actiTIME to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/actitime-to-google-sheets) - [ **actiTIME to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/actitime-to-gmail) - [ **actiTIME to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/actitime-to-google-calendar) ## More into Minor Planet Center - [ **HubSpot to Minor Planet Center** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-minor-planet-center) - [ **Salesforce to Minor Planet Center** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-minor-planet-center) - [ **Slack to Minor Planet Center** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-minor-planet-center) - [ **Google Sheets to Minor Planet Center** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-minor-planet-center) - [ **Gmail to Minor Planet Center** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-minor-planet-center) - [ **Google Calendar to Minor Planet Center** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-minor-planet-center) Questions ## actiTIME and Minor Planet Center, answered ### ### What can start an automation from actiTIME? Any of actiTIME's 7 triggers in the catalog, including New Customer, New Project, New Task and New User. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Minor Planet Center when something happens in actiTIME? Any of Minor Planet Center's 11 actions, including Find MPECs, Find near-duplicate observations, Get action code and Get magnitude band. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Minor Planet Center to actiTIME? Minor Planet Center has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in actiTIME. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Minor Planet Center's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for actiTIME or Minor Planet Center? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use actiTIME and Minor Planet Center without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.