Kanban MCP Server

Kanban MCP becomes available to MCP clients through the kanban mcp mcp server. The main idea is to direct the AI agent to document and save its work as tasks in a kanban board, both in the planning session and in execution sessions.

What Kanban MCP does

The main idea is to direct the AI agent to document and save its work as tasks in a kanban board, both in the planning session and in execution sessions.

Key capabilities

• Column capacity / work-in-progress limits
• Embedded DB (SQLite)
• Web UI for observing the progress of the workflow, and for modifying tasks manually
• Predefined prompts for starting and resuming a workflow

Tools it exposes

Once connected, the assistant can call these 10 tools directly:

• create-kanban-board — Create a new kanban board to plan and keep track of your tasks
• Input — - name (string): The name of the board
• add-task-to-board — Add a new task to the landing column (to-do) of a kanban board
• move-task — Move a task from one column to another, respecting WIP limits
• delete-task — Delete a task
• get-board-info — Get the full info of a kanban board, including columns and tasks
• get-task-info — Get the full info of a task, including its content
• list-boards — List all kanban boards in the database
• Tools — The Tools tool exposed by this server
• Prompts — The Prompts tool exposed by this server

Installing the kanban mcp mcp server

Setup follows the standard MCP pattern: clone or install the server, then register it in your client's configuration file and restart the client. The configuration snippets on this page cover Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor.

Configuration

The server reads one environment variable: MCP_KANBAN_DB_FOLDER_PATH. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.

Where it fits

Productivity servers pay off through capture: the tasks and notes that never get filed are the ones where opening the app is more friction than the thought is worth. Kanban MCP sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — create-kanban-board, Input, add-task-to-board among others — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other productivity servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.

Practical notes

• This server runs locally, so it operates with whatever access your machine and its credentials already have. Scope that deliberately rather than by default.
• With 10 tools exposed, expect a noticeable bump in prompt size — disable it in projects that never use Kanban MCP.
• Maintained by eyalzh.
• MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the kanban mcp mcp server actually does with your data.
• Every entry in this directory is reviewed by hand before it goes live, and details are checked against the project's own documentation.