Shrimp Task Manager is a task tool built for AI Agents, emphasizing chain-of-thought, reflection, and style consistency. It converts natural language
MCP Shrimp Task Manager becomes available to MCP clients through the mcp shrimp task manager mcp server. Shrimp Task Manager is a task tool built for AI Agents, emphasizing chain-of-thought, reflection, and style consistency. It converts natural language into structured dev tasks with dependency tracking and iterative refinement, enabling agent-like developer behavior in reasoning AI systems.
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Once connected, the assistant can call these 2 tools directly:
Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverInstallation — The Installation tool exposed by this serverThe server is distributed via npm as @anthropic-ai/claude-code, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.
The server reads 3 environment variables: DATA_DIR, TEMPLATES_USE, ENABLE_GUI. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.
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. MCP Shrimp Task Manager sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — Prerequisites, Installation — 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.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Installation | The Installation tool exposed by this server. |
Example configuration:
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"shrimp-task-manager": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/home/fire/claude/mcp-shrimp-task-manager/dist/index.js"],
"env": {
"DATA_DIR": "/home/fire/claude/project/shrimp_data",
"TEMPLATES_USE": "en",
"ENABLE_GUI": "false"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| DATA_DIR | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
| TEMPLATES_USE | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| ENABLE_GUI | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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