Instead of clicking through ProductPlan's interface, just ask:
Connect Productplan to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. Instead of clicking through ProductPlan's interface, just ask:. The productplan mcp server is what makes that connection.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to external tools. Anthropic created it; other AI providers are adopting it. This server implements MCP so your AI assistant can read and write ProductPlan data.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Configuration is passed through the environment: PRODUCTPLAN_API_TOKEN. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by olgasafonova; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Productplan's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
**Windows:**
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"productplan": {
"command": "C:\\Tools\\productplan.exe",
"env": {
"PRODUCTPLAN_API_TOKEN": "your-token"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| PRODUCTPLAN_API_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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