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How to use Calendly with VS Code

You want Calendly inside VS Code so it can find open times for a meeting, send a one-time booking link, review upcoming meetings and attendees, and clean up a canceled or missed meeting — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Calendly gateway

The gateway is the thing VS Code connects to, and it is where you decide which Calendly tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.

  1. Create an Arcade account

    Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.

  2. Create an MCP Gateway and select your Calendly tools

    In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Calendly tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.

  3. Copy your gateway URL

    Every client below needs it.

    https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>

Create a Calendly gateway Opens the gateway builder in your Arcade dashboard.

Connect the gateway to VS Code

  1. Add the server

    VS Code 1.107.0 or higher. Command Palette → MCP: Add Server… → choose HTTP, paste your gateway URL, and name it something like mcp-arcade.

  2. Start it and authenticate

    Click Start next to the server in mcp.json or under Extensions → MCP Servers - Installed, then approve the Arcade sign-in and consent screens.

  3. Try it out

    Open the chat pane, switch to Agent mode, and ask it to use one of your Calendly tools.

Full VS Code guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13

Try these Calendly prompts

VS Code can now act on your Calendly account. Click a prompt to copy it.

Require approval before an agent cancels a booked meeting or marks someone as a no-show. Pair it with Contextual Access policies to limit access to availability, booking, and attendee actions by user or context.

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