isleep

An MCP server that lets AI agents sleep for a specified duration.

Introduce delays between steps, wait for builds or compile times to finish, throttle requests, or pause before retrying a failed action.

Install

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "isleep": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "isleep"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add isleep -- npx -y isleep

Tool

sleep

Sleep (wait/pause) for a specified duration.

| Parameter | Type | Description | | ---------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | duration | number | The amount of time to sleep (must be positive) | | unit | string | One of: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years |

Example call:

{
  "duration": 30,
  "unit": "seconds"
}

Response:

Slept for 30 seconds.