MCP servers

Add Model Context Protocol servers to give Cline agents access to additional tools and data sources.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for giving AI agents access to external tools and data sources. Kanban supports MCP servers natively for Cline tasks.

MCP server management in Kanban is for the Cline agent, which integrates with MCP via the Cline SDK. CLI-based agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, etc.) manage their own MCP configurations independently through their own config files.

Adding MCP servers

1. Open Settings

   Click Settings in the Kanban navbar.

2. Go to the MCP servers section

   Scroll to MCP servers and add or edit your server configurations.

3. Save

   Save the settings. Kanban resets existing Cline chat sessions so the agent picks up the new servers immediately.

Adding or removing MCP servers resets existing Cline chat sessions. Any in-progress Cline conversation will restart so the agent can load the updated server list.

Opening the settings file

The Settings dialog shows the file path for the MCP config. Click the path to open the file directly in your editor — useful when you want to paste in a config from an MCP server’s documentation.

OAuth authentication

Some MCP servers require OAuth to authenticate with external services. Kanban consolidates MCP OAuth redirects onto its own runtime server and shows real-time authentication status updates in the Settings dialog — you don’t need to handle the callback URL yourself.

Linear MCP shortcut

Kanban includes a one-click install shortcut for the Linear MCP server. Open Settings, find the MCP servers section, and use the Linear shortcut to install and configure it without editing JSON manually.