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# Create Total Hours booking

> Book a total number of hours across a date range and let Resource Guru place them. Input schema, a tools/call example and an example result.

Source: https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/resource-guru/create_total_hours_booking

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Book a total number of hours across a date range and let Resource Guru place them.

Resource Guru MCP tools: https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/resource-guru.md

MCP tool: `resource_guru_write → create_total_hours_booking`

Access: write. Confirm: waits for the user's OK before it runs.

Resource Guru fits the hours into free time inside the window. Hours that do not fit go to the waiting list and the response shows the remainder. A Total Hours booking covers one resource and cannot repeat, so use a placeholder for work you will staff later. By default you confirm each call; you can switch that off for this tool.

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `resource_id` | integer | yes | One person or placeholder, from list_resources. |
| `start_date` | string | yes | First day of the window, YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `end_date` | string | yes | Last day of the window, YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `total_minutes` | integer | yes | Total effort in minutes across the whole window. |
| `effort_flexibility` | string | yes | How freely hours may be spread: fixed, limited or full. |
| `project_id` | integer | no | Project ID from list_projects. |
| `details` | string | no | Notes on the booking. |

## tools/call

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "resource_guru_write",
    "arguments": {
      "operation": "create_total_hours_booking",
      "arguments": {
        "resource_id": 1,
        "start_date": "start date",
        "end_date": "end date",
        "total_minutes": 1,
        "effort_flexibility": "effort flexibility"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## Example response

```json
{
  "content": [
    {
      "type": "text",
      "text": "{ ... same JSON as structuredContent ... }"
    }
  ],
  "structuredContent": {
    "id": 48213390,
    "resource_ids": [
      18300
    ],
    "start_date": "2026-11-02",
    "end_date": "2026-12-12",
    "total_minutes": 4800,
    "allocated_minutes": 4800,
    "waiting_minutes": 0,
    "project_id": 703110
  },
  "isError": false
}
```

Previous: [Create booking](https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/resource-guru/create_booking.md)
Next: [Update booking](https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/resource-guru/update_booking.md)

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