# redmine-mcp-server MCP Server

MCP server that lets AI assistants manage Redmine issues, projects, wikis, and time tracking

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Published as `redmine-mcp-server` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**36 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 12.

### Most discussed

### get_redmine_issue throwing SSL errors even with verification disabled !?

### Bug Description

```
2026-08-03 17:53:37 WARNING  SSL verification is DISABLED - use only for development!
2026-08-03 17:53:37 ERROR    SSL error during fetching issue 56789: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='redmine.local', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /issues/56789.json?include=journals%2Cattachments (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1032)')))
```

### Steps to Rep

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/197) · 2026-08-03 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### OAuth token scopes are advertised but not enforced on MCP tool calls

### Bug Description

In `oauth` / `oauth-proxy` modes, Redmine Doorkeeper scopes are advertised (`scopes_supported` via `oauth_scopes.py`) and appear on the access token, but the MCP server does not enforce those scopes when listing or calling tools.

`IntrospectionTokenVerifier` is built with `required_scopes` unset. `_auth.py` documents per-tool enforcement as a follow-up. Any active Bearer token can therefore invoke any registered tool, including tools that need permissions absent from the to

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/185) · 2026-07-17 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### create_redmine_issue returns "Requested resource not found" on success, causing silent duplicate creation

### Bug Description

When calling create_redmine_issue, the tool returns an error response 
of "Requested resource not found" even though the issue was successfully 
created in Redmine. The caller has no way to distinguish a genuine 
failure from a successful creation, leading to unnecessary retries and 
risk of duplicate issues.

Note: This bug report was drafted by Claude AI (Anthropic) during an 
active development session. The observed behavior is real and 
reproducible. Root cause analysis 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/146) · 2026-06-04 · closed · external user · 18 comments

### OAuth mode (v2.1.0): discovery metadata is internally inconsistent for a non-DCR upstream - client treats the MCP server as the authorization server

### Bug Description

In OAuth mode (v2.1.0, `RemoteAuthProvider` + introspection), the two discovery documents disagree about the identity of the authorization server, and a current MCP client (VS Code 1.122.1) consequently treats the MCP server itself as the authorization server. The browser is opened to `<mcp-base-url>/authorize` (which the MCP server does not serve) instead of Redmine's `/oauth/authorize`, and the flow fails with a 404.

The two documents:

- `/.well-known/oauth-protected-res

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/140) · 2026-06-01 · closed · external user · 9 comments

### OAuth discovery doc omits `scopes_supported`; tokens lack permissions for many tools

### Bug Description

When `REDMINE_AUTH_MODE=oauth`, the OAuth discovery endpoints (`/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource` and `/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server`) don't advertise a `scopes_supported` field. MCP clients therefore don't request specific scopes in the authorisation URL, and Redmine grants only Doorkeeper's default scopes (`view_project`, `search_project`, `view_members`).

Tools whose underlying Redmine endpoint requires any other permission then return 403, even when the u

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/130) · 2026-05-20 · closed · external user · 11 comments

### Most recent

### `list_redmine_issues` cannot express Redmine's operator filter forms, and documents the `filters` route that can as not applying to them

## Bug Description

`list_redmine_issues` offers "find unassigned issues" in its own description and then refuses the only value that expresses it.

Redmine carries a filter's operator *inside* the value. `Query#add_short_filter` detects an operator prefix for the filter's type and splits the remainder on `|`, defaulting to `=` over the split list, so `"56|57"` is either tracker, `"!*"` is "none" and `"!4"` is "not 4". `tracker_id`, `priority_id` and `fixed_version_id` are typed `Optional[int]`,

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/250) · 2026-08-27 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### `list_redmine_projects` cannot be narrowed or measured, drops six fields Redmine sends, and is documented as complete when it is active-only

## Problem Statement

`list_redmine_projects` cannot be narrowed, cannot be measured, and does not return most of what Redmine sends it — and its documentation describes none of that. The whole signature is one argument (`tools/projects.py`):

```python
def list_redmine_projects(
    include_custom_fields: bool = False,
) -> Union[List[Dict[str, Any]], Dict[str, Any]]:
```

The body calls `project.all()` unconditionally, hand-builds five keys per project, and returns a bare array. Four things fo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/238) · 2026-08-24 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### `get_current_user` cannot return the caller's memberships, so "which projects do I hold" costs one call per project

## Problem Statement

`get_current_user` cannot return the caller's project memberships, so there is no way to ask "which projects do I hold, and with which roles" in one call.

The tool takes no arguments (`tools/enumeration.py`), calls `user.get("current")` with no `include`, and hand-builds eight keys: `id`, `login`, `firstname`, `lastname`, `mail`, `admin`, `created_on`, `last_login_on`. Memberships are not among them and nothing else on the tool surface answers the question for the current 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/236) · 2026-08-24 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### `manage_contact` `list` returns no pagination metadata, discarding the `total_count` Redmine sent beside the contacts

## Problem Statement

`manage_contact` with `action="list"` returns a bare array and no pagination metadata at all — no total, no count, no pagination block. A caller cannot tell a complete read from a truncated one, and the only way to find the end of a collection is to keep paging until an empty page comes back, which costs an extra request to learn something the response could have stated.

`list_redmine_issues` already solves this, in the same codebase, with `include_pagination_info=True` re

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/234) · 2026-08-24 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### `list_project_issue_custom_fields` invents six metadata keys Redmine never sends

## Bug Description

`list_project_issue_custom_fields` returns eight keys per field. Redmine sends two. The other six are `getattr` fallbacks, so the tool reports `field_format: ""`, `is_required: false`, `multiple: false`, `default_value: null`, `possible_values: []` and `trackers: []` for every custom field, always, on every deployment.

`is_required: false` is the sharp edge. It is byte-identical to a genuine "this field is optional", so a caller cannot detect that it was invented. It acts on

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/232) · 2026-08-24 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### `list_redmine_projects` discards the project custom field values Redmine already sent

### Problem Statement

Nothing in the tool surface returns project custom field values. Not `list_redmine_projects`, not `get_project_dashboard_data`, not `get_project_modules`, not issue payloads (which carry only `project: {id, name}`), and `search_entire_redmine` does not accept projects as a scope.

Redmine does return them. `app/views/projects/index.api.rsb` calls `render_api_custom_values project.visible_custom_field_values, api` unconditionally — no `include` parameter needed. `list_redmi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/230) · 2026-08-21 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### `list_redmine_issues` discards the custom fields and relations Redmine already sent

### Problem Statement

Reading a custom field value, or a relation, across a set of issues costs one API request per issue — even though Redmine already returns that data in the list response the server just made and then discards.

`list_redmine_issues` drops it twice over:

- It serializes through `_issue_to_dict_selective`, which delegates to `_issue_to_dict` with `include_custom_fields=False`, so no `custom_fields` key is ever emitted. Naming `custom_fields` in the `fields` parameter does no

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jztan/redmine-mcp-server/issues/228) · 2026-08-21 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

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