# kaneo MCP Server

Official MCP server for Kaneo: manage tasks, projects, and labels from Claude and other MCP clients

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled kaneo yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `@kaneo/mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**7 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### MCP tools return 'fetch failed' on localhost self-hosting: server-side calls use the public KANEO_API_URL

## Summary

On a self-hosted install reached over `localhost`, every built-in MCP tool returns:

```json
{ "error": "fetch failed" }
```

OAuth completes fine and the server shows as connected — `whoami`, `list_workspaces`, `list_projects` all fail the same way. The cause is that the MCP handler performs **server-side** fetches against the **public** URL, which does not resolve from inside the container.

## Root cause

`apps/api/src/mcp/index.ts` derives its API base from the public env var:

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/usekaneo/kaneo/issues/1547) · 2026-08-09 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [Bug]: Remote MCP OAuth returns invalid_client when requests hit different Kaneo replicas

### Bug Description

The built-in remote MCP OAuth flow fails when Kaneo runs with multiple replicas.

Dynamically registered OAuth clients, pending authorization requests and authorization codes are stored in process-local `Map` instances.

If `/api/mcp/register` reaches replica A and `/api/mcp/authorize` reaches replica B, replica B cannot find the registered client and returns:

```json
{"error":"invalid_client"}
```

The issue was reproduced deterministically with Kaneo v2.12.1. Sending both

[Read the thread](https://github.com/usekaneo/kaneo/issues/1484) · 2026-08-04 · closed · external user · 20 comments

### Publish @kaneo/mcp to npm — task-relation tools missing since #1341

## Summary

`@kaneo/mcp` on npm is stuck at **0.1.5 (2026-04-06)** and does **not** include the task-relation / `delete_label` MCP tools that landed on `main` in #1341 (merged 2026-06-25).

Self-hosted consumers who follow the docs (`npx -y @kaneo/mcp serve`) therefore get an incomplete tool surface vs the UI and vs the in-API MCP registry.

## What’s missing on npm 0.1.5

- `create_task_relation` (`subtask` / `blocks` / `related`)
- `get_task_relations`
- `delete_task_relation`
- `delete_label`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/usekaneo/kaneo/issues/1415) · 2026-07-21 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### [Bug]: Comments created via MCP are not visible in the UI and vice versa — two parallel comment systems are out of sync

### Bug Description

The codebase has two completely separate comment systems that operate on different database tables and API routes, causing comments to be invisible across surfaces:

1. UI (Web) — stores comments in activityTable (table: activity) as rows with type: "comment". Uses /api/activity/comment endpoints. Fetcher files (comment) call client.activity.comment.$post/$put/$delete.
2. MCP + /api/comment route — stores comments in a separate commentTable (table: comment). Uses /api/commen

[Read the thread](https://github.com/usekaneo/kaneo/issues/1365) · 2026-07-06 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### feat: MCP Auth with API Token

## Problem Statement
I can't use the mcp auth process to authenticate as my agents are running inside a sandboxed docker environment and don't always show the url, and when they do it times out before I get to process this in the browser.

## Proposed Solution
Is there no way to use the API keys I can create in the interface?

## Alternative Solutions
Some kind of hands free auth flow that doesn't require human interaction.

## Does this feature align with Kaneo's focus on simplicity?
It would 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/usekaneo/kaneo/issues/1215) · 2026-05-01 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 7 reports Pod holds for kaneo](/mcp/kaneo/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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