--- title: "Connect TidyCal to Minor Planet Center - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Team\" fires in TidyCal, your agent runs \"Find MPECs\" in Minor Planet Center." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-minor-planet-center" --- # Connect TidyCal to Minor Planet Center When **New Team** fires in [TidyCal](https://apiant.ai/connections/tidycal), 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. TidyCal **1** trigger TidyCal **15** 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 TidyCal 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 TidyCal can start in Minor Planet Center - When **New Team** in TidyCal then **Find MPECs** in Minor Planet Center - When **New Team** in TidyCal 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 TidyCal and Minor Planet Center ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 26 actions - Trigger **New Team** Triggers when a new team you have access to appears in your TidyCal account. - Action **Add contact** Creates a new contact in your TidyCal account with a name, email and optional timezone. - Action **Add guest to booking** Adds a guest to an existing upcoming booking. The guest gets their own linked booking at the same time and location and receives a confirmation email. - Action **Cancel booking** Cancels a TidyCal booking, optionally with a reason and without notifying the booker and host. Returns the cancelled booking. - Action **Delete booking type** Deletes a booking type from your TidyCal account. Team-managed copies of a booking type cannot be deleted. - Action **Get booking** Returns a single TidyCal booking by its ID, including its contact, booking-question answers, payment, add-ons, refund status and hosts. - Action **Get booking type** Returns a single booking type, including its title, duration, price, booking URL and availability settings. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single TidyCal contact by its id, including name, email, phone number, timezone and timestamps. - Action **List available timeslots** Returns the open times a client can book for one of your booking types between two dates, with how many bookings each slot can still take. - Action **List bookings** Returns the bookings on your TidyCal account, optionally limited to a date range, to cancelled bookings only, or including team bookings. - Action **List booking types** Returns every booking type (event type) on the connected TidyCal account, including its title, duration, price and booking URL. - Action **List contacts** Returns the contacts in your TidyCal account, optionally only those whose name or email starts with given text. - Action **List teams** Returns the TidyCal teams the connected account has access to, with each team's id, name and created/updated times. - Action **Reschedule booking** Moves an existing TidyCal booking to a new start time, keeping the booking type's duration. Returns the updated booking. - Action **Update booking type** Updates an existing booking type in TidyCal. Only the details you fill in are changed; everything else keeps its current value. - Action **Update contact** Updates an existing TidyCal contact's name, email, phone number or timezone. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - 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 - [ **TidyCal** TidyCal is simple and easy calendar management and booking tool.](https://apiant.ai/connections/tidycal) - [ **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 TidyCal - [ **TidyCal to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-trello) - [ **TidyCal to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-zoom) - [ **TidyCal to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-twilio) - [ **TidyCal to Typeform** Build and publish online forms, surveys, and quizzes with Typeform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-typeform) - [ **TidyCal to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-webflow) - [ **TidyCal to Wix** The Wix website builder gives businesses of any size the tools to create, manage and grow a fully integrated...](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-wix) ## 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 ## TidyCal and Minor Planet Center, answered ### ### What can start an automation from TidyCal? Any of TidyCal's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Team. 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 TidyCal? 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 TidyCal? Minor Planet Center has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in TidyCal. 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 TidyCal 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 TidyCal 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.