tracker-mcp: your job-application spreadsheet, kept with Claude

You: Which follow-ups are due this week?

Claude: Three. Acme (applied 17 Sep): nudge Sarah Kim on LinkedIn, two days overdue. Globex: due Thursday, no contact yet. Initech: due Friday.

You: I can't reach anyone at Globex until Monday. Move it.

Claude: Row 8, Globex: follow-up date 23 Oct → 27 Oct, and a note in the follow-up log. Write it?

You: Yes.

What it does

Follow-ups by your rule

10 days after applying, then every 14, weekends moved to Monday; the assistant reminds you what is due.

Silent applications

Finds what has not answered in weeks and closes only the rows you pick.

A real funnel

Submitted → replied → screening → interview → offer, by channel, source or month.

Safe writes

You see the exact cells before anything changes. Backups, an audit log and undo.

Your spreadsheet stays yours: you keep opening it in Excel or Google Sheets, sorting and editing it. tracker-mcp reads your own headers and dropdowns; it does not impose a template.

Where your tracker can live

Tracker	What tracker-mcp touches
Excel (.xlsx) or CSV file	That file, a small config next to it, and a backups folder. Nothing leaves your computer.
Google Sheets	Only the spreadsheet you pick in Google's own file picker when you sign in. Nothing else in your Google account.

Google Sheets: sign in once, pick your sheet

Run

uvx tracker-mcp auth google

Your browser opens Google's sign-in page and then Google's file picker. Choose the spreadsheet with your applications. tracker-mcp asks Google for one permission: see, edit, create and delete only the specific Google Drive files you use with this app (drive.file). It cannot see your other files, your e-mail or your contacts. The sign-in is saved on your computer only, and you can withdraw it at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

tracker-mcp reads the cells of the spreadsheet you picked and, after your confirmation, updates them, for example sets a status or a follow-up date. It talks to Google directly from your computer; there is no tracker-mcp server, and the developer never receives your data. Details: privacy policy.

Get started

You need uv. Then pick your client:

Claude Code: /plugin install tracker-mcp --marketplace butyavk/tracker-mcp
Claude Desktop: download tracker-mcp-<version>.mcpb from the latest release, double-click it and pick your tracker file.
Cursor, VS Code and others: a stdio server with command uvx, argument tracker-mcp and the environment variable TRACKER_PATH.

No tracker yet? uvx tracker-mcp new ~/Documents/job-tracker.xlsx creates one. The full guide is in the README.

Open source

tracker-mcp is MIT-licensed and developed in the open on GitHub. Questions and bugs: issues. Security problems: please report them privately as described in SECURITY.md.