Best MCP Servers for Project & Task Management (2026)
Task and project systems an AI client can actually update: Atlassian (Jira and Confluence), Linear, Asana, and Jira servers, plus agent-native task managers like Claude Task Master, Shrimp Task Manager, and Orbit that break work down for AI agents.
This page collects the 7 MCP servers in our directory that genuinely cover project & task management — together they have 34,552 GitHub stars, and 1 of them run as hosted services you can connect to without installing anything. The highest-rated options are eyaltoledano/claude-task-master, sooperset/mcp-atlassian, cjo4m06/mcp-shrimp-task-manager.
How to choose
Use the Atlassian, Linear, or Asana server to connect an existing team workflow; use Task Master or Orbit when the tasks themselves are being executed by agents.
eyaltoledano/claude-task-master
by eyaltoledano
📇 ☁️ 🏠 - AI-powered task management system for AI-driven development. Features PRD parsing, task expansion, multi-provider support (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity, xAI), and selective tool loadi
npx -y -y task-master-aisooperset/mcp-atlassian
by sooperset
MCP server for Atlassian products, Confluence and Jira, supporting Confluence Cloud, Jira Cloud, and Jira Server/Data Center. It provides tools for searching, reading, creating, and updating Confluence pages and Jira issues, authenticated with Atlassian API tokens (or personal access tokens for Server/Data Center).
npx -y sooperset-mcp-atlassiancjo4m06/mcp-shrimp-task-manager
by cjo4m06
📇 ☁️ 🏠 – A programming-focused task management system that boosts coding agents like Cursor AI with advanced task memory, self-reflection, and dependency management.
npx -y mcp-shrimp-task-managerroychri/mcp-server-asana
by roychri
📇 ☁️ This Model Context Protocol server implementation of Asana allows you to talk to Asana API from MCP Client such as Anthropic's Claude Desktop Application, and many more.
npx -y -y @roychri/mcp-server-asanatacticlaunch/mcp-linear
by tacticlaunch
📇 ☁️ 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Integrates with Linear project management system
npx -y add-mcpnguyenvanduocit/jira-mcp
by nguyenvanduocit
🏎️ ☁️ - A Go-based MCP connector for Jira that enables AI assistants like Claude to interact with Atlassian Jira. This tool provides a seamless interface for AI models to perform common Jira operatio
npx -y nguyenvanduocit-jira-mcpOrbit by Noveum
by Shashank Agarwal
Free, open-source task management for people and AI agents. Manage issues, projects, sprints, documents and files through the remote MCP endpoint https://orbit.noveum.ai/mcp using Streamable HTTP. Requires an Orbit account and workspace-scoped OAuth consent; no API key. After adding the server in Claude Code, use /mcp to complete authentication. The GitHub repository contains the full Apache-2.0 application, not a standalone stdio package. Connection docs: https://github.com/Noveum/orbit-mcp. Official logo: https://orbit.noveum.ai/logo.png.
claude mcp add --transport http orbit https://orbit.noveum.ai/mcpFrequently asked questions
What is the most popular MCP server for Project & Task Management?
eyaltoledano/claude-task-master leads this list with 27,004 GitHub stars. 📇 ☁️ 🏠 - AI-powered task management system for AI-driven development. Features PRD parsing, task expansion, multi-provider support (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity, xAI), and selective tool loadi
Are these Project & Task Management MCP servers free to use?
6 of the 7 servers here publish a license in the directory (NOASSERTION, MIT). 1 of them run as hosted services you can connect to remotely; the rest you install and run yourself. Hosted services may have their own pricing.
How do I choose an MCP server for Project & Task Management?
Use the Atlassian, Linear, or Asana server to connect an existing team workflow; use Task Master or Orbit when the tasks themselves are being executed by agents.