How to Use the KanbanTool MCP in Claude Code

Q: What's the best way for Claude Code to handle authentication with my KanbanTool account?

You add the server once using claude mcp add. This command stores your Vinkius endpoint token securely in a local config file. After that, all commands are authenticated automatically without exposing secrets in your shell history.

Q: What are the supported transports?

Claude Code supports stdio, http, and sse transports. For most CI/CD or remote server use cases, you'll use the http transport to connect to the Vinkius-managed MCP server endpoint.

Automate your KanbanTool projects from the terminal. Use Claude Code to run board operations in cron jobs, shell scripts, and CI/CD pipelines.

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Integrate KanbanTool into Your CI/CD

This MCP server makes your board an active part of your deployment pipeline. On a successful build, a script in your GitHub Action can call `create_task_card` to generate a new "Deploy to Production" task automatically. If a build fails, your script can find the relevant feature ticket and use `update_task_details` to post the error log directly as a comment. Your team sees the failure right on the KanbanTool board, linked to the work itself.

Script Your Project Reporting

Get daily updates without opening a browser. Write a simple shell script that runs on a cron job. Every morning at 9 AM, it can execute `list_board_tasks` for your team's board and pipe the output to a second command. That second command could check `list_task_activities` for each task to find items that have gone stale. Your script can then format a report and send it to a Slack channel, giving everyone a heads-up on blocked work.

Manage Boards with Command-Line Power

Here's the thing — GUIs are slow for bulk actions. With Claude Code, you can clean house from the command line. Write a script to `archive_task_card` for every card in the 'Done' column that hasn't been touched in 30 days. You can pipe commands together, like using `list_boards` to find a board ID, passing it to `list_board_tasks` to get all tasks, and then using `grep` and `xargs` to operate on a specific subset. It's total, scriptable control over your workflow.

Setup guide

Set up KanbanTool MCP in Claude Code

Prerequisites

Claude Code CLI installed (npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code)
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Run the add command

Open your terminal and run the command shown on the right. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com. Use --scope user to make it available across all projects.
2

Verify the connection

Start a Claude Code session and type /mcp to list connected servers. You should see kanbantool-mcp with a green status indicator.
3

Start using tools

Ask Claude Code something like "Check my latest KanbanTool transactions." It will automatically discover and invoke the available KanbanTool tools.

Terminal

claude mcp add --transport http kanbantool-mcp https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

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Prerequisites

Claude Code CLI installed
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Open the config file

Create or edit .mcp.json in your project root for project-level scope, or ~/.claude.json for user-level scope.
2

Add the KanbanTool MCP

Paste the JSON snippet shown on the right into the mcpServers object. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com.
3

Restart Claude Code

Start a new Claude Code session. Type /mcp to confirm the server is connected. The tools will be automatically available in your conversation.

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kanbantool-mcp": {
      "type": "url",
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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Common questions about KanbanTool MCP in Claude Code

In your workflow YAML, install Claude Code and add your KanbanTool MCP server. Then you can run commands like `claude mcp kanbantool create_task_card --name 'New Deployment'` as a step in your job. It's ideal for automating ticket creation.

Yes, that's what it's built for. You can pipe the JSON output from `list_board_tasks` to tools like `jq` to filter for specific IDs, then pass those IDs to `update_task_details` using `xargs`. It's a standard Unix-style workflow.

You add the server once using `claude mcp add`. This command stores your Vinkius endpoint token securely in a local config file. After that, all commands are authenticated automatically without exposing secrets in your shell history.

Claude Code supports `stdio`, `http`, and `sse` transports. For most CI/CD or remote server use cases, you'll use the `http` transport to connect to the Vinkius-managed MCP server endpoint.

Yes. Your API key is stored locally and never leaves your machine. When you run a command like `get_task_details`, the request goes to the Vinkius proxy, which uses zero-trust, ephemeral instances to fetch only the requested task data. Nothing is stored server-side.

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