Kanban MCP server: install, tools and pricing

A task board for each of your projects, driven from your AI chat. Say “add a task to the nova site board: write the launch email, due Friday, 90 minutes”, then ask “what’s on the nova board?”, “what’s overdue?” or “plan my week”. Tasks carry a title, notes, tags, a due date, an estimate, a priority and a column (backlog, todo, doing, review, done by default), each one gets a short stable id like `

Category: Time and operations · Tools: 15 · Version: 0.22.6 · Licence: MIT

Install it

  • Hosted, nothing to install: open https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/connect - it mints a free token and prints a ready URL, https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/kanban/t/<token>. Paste that into your client. The bare https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/kanban hands out the tool list but answers tool calls with HTTP 401, which is why the tokenised URL is the one to use.
  • Claude Desktop, one click: download the .mcpb bundle
  • From source: git clone https://github.com/theluckystrike/mcp-servers then build servers/kanban.
  • npm: the package @theluckystrike/mcp-kanban is staged and publishes shortly; the .mcpb bundle is the supported install until then.

Tools it exposes

Tool What it does
task_add see tool reference
task_list see tool reference
task_move see tool reference
task_update see tool reference
task_done see tool reference
task_delete see tool reference
task_search see tool reference
board see tool reference
task_start_timer see tool reference
task_log_time see tool reference
project_list see tool reference
project_delete see tool reference
overdue see tool reference
weekly_review see tool reference
columns_set see tool reference

Pricing

Free to run locally, forever. The Pro licence is $19, one time, lifetime — it changes only the hosted endpoint’s saved-report cap, never the tools. All 58 servers together are $39 as a bundle instead of $1102 bought one at a time.

Buy the Kanban Pro licence — $19

Questions people actually ask

Is the Kanban MCP server free?

Yes. Running Kanban locally is free and unlimited, and the code is MIT licensed. There is a one-time $19 Pro licence for the hosted endpoint, which removes the saved-report cap. No subscription and no account are required.

Does Kanban need an API key?

No. The server works offline against local files. If you use the hosted endpoint, the connection is authenticated with a scoped token instead of a per-tool API key.

Where does the data go?

Local installs keep everything on your machine. The hosted endpoint stores records in an isolated per-tenant namespace, and only for servers you actually call.

Which clients can use it?

Any MCP client: Claude Desktop (via the .mcpb bundle), Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code with an MCP extension, or your own agent over the Streamable HTTP transport.

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All 58 back-office MCP servers · how the collection is organised