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.
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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.
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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)')))
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Read the thread · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 2026-05-20 · closed · external user · 11 comments
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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 · 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):
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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_dictwithinclude_custom_fields=False, so nocustom_fieldskey is ever emitted. Namingcustom_fieldsin thefieldsparameter does no
Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment
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