Paid MCP Tools Reference

Setup Requirements

API Key Required

Paid MCP tools require an API key from your DigitalCore account. Generate a key at Settings → API Keys and add it to your MCP client configuration. See API Keys for detailed instructions.

Configuration with API Key

Add the paid server to your MCP client with your API key:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "digitalcore": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@anthropic-ai/mcp-remote", "https://mcp.digitalcore.app/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "DIGITALCORE_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Monitor Tools

Check Portfolio Health — Aggregate Health Across Your Portfolio

Returns a health snapshot of your portfolio: overall score, domain breakdowns, list of services with their health scores, and attention items needing action.

Check Engagement Health — Detailed Status of a Single Engagement

Returns the health score, domain sub-scores (finance, performance, capacity), top concerns, trend direction (improving/declining/stable), and any anomalies for a specific engagement.

Record Tools

Record Hours — Log Hours by Role

Record capacity hours for a specific role on an engagement for a given month. Automatically triggers labour cost calculation (hours × rate → finance entry).

Record Finance Actual — Enter P&L Actuals

Record a financial actual value (revenue or cost) for a specific line item, engagement, and month.

Record Performance — Enter KPI Values

Record a KPI actual value. Automatically triggers SLA breach detection — if the value breaches the contract threshold, a penalty event and (optionally) a finance entry are created.

Diagnose Tools

Generate Showback Report — IT Cost Allocation by Department

Generates a showback report showing how IT costs are allocated across business units/customers based on delivery attribution data. Useful for chargeback and transparency.

Plan Tools

Generate Scenario Options — AI Creates Multiple What-If Variants

Describe a situation or goal, and the AI generates 2-4 distinct scenario variants with different approaches (conservative, balanced, aggressive) and projected impacts.

Create Scenario — Build a Blank Scenario Manually

Creates a new empty scenario for a specified engagement, ready for drivers to be added.

Add Driver — Apply an Economic Driver to a Scenario

Adds a driver to an existing scenario: type (percentage, absolute, fixed), target domain, target items, and the value of the change.

Decide Tools

Refine Scenario — Adjust and Recalculate

Modify an existing scenario’s drivers and recalculate the projected impact.

Compare and Commit — Side-by-Side Comparison and Adoption

Compare two or more scenarios side by side and commit the chosen one, writing its projections into your live plan.

Undo Commit — Reverse a Previous Commitment

Revert a committed scenario, restoring the previous plan values.

Check Accuracy — How Good Was the Prediction?

After actuals are recorded, compare a scenario’s projections against what actually happened to measure prediction accuracy.

Communicate Tools

Summarise Period — Narrative Summary with Audience Targeting

Generates a narrative summary of an engagement’s performance for a specified period, tailored to the target audience (Internal, Customer, Executive, Board).

Generate Executive Summary — Multi-Section Report Draft

Creates a full multi-section executive summary report with AI-generated narratives for each section.