kaneo MCP Server
Official MCP server for Kaneo: manage tasks, projects, and labels from Claude and other MCP clients
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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.
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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:
{ "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 · 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:
{"error":"invalid_client"}
The issue was reproduced deterministically with Kaneo v2.12.1. Sending both
Read the thread · 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_relationsdelete_task_relationdelete_label
Read the thread · 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:
- 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.
- MCP + /api/comment route — stores comments in a separate commentTable (table: comment). Uses /api/commen
Read the thread · 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 · 2026-05-01 · closed · external user · 1 comment
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