Project management MCP servers: overview, examples, and use cases

You can enable your agents to support workflows across issues or tasks by connecting to project management platforms’ Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

To help you leverage this category of MCP servers, we’ll break down several impactful use cases as well as a few popular servers. 

But first, let’s align on the definition of a project management MCP server.

What is a project management MCP server?

It’s any server that exposes data or functionality from a project management platform. This includes “official MCP servers” (i.e., provided by the application itself), any from integration providers, and those from public communities, like GitHub.

Related: A guide to using email MCP servers

How to use project management MCP servers

Your use cases depend on the type of agents you support. That said, here are a few common agentic workflows:

• Automated ticket triage and routing: Your agent can intelligently categorize and route incoming tickets based on their content. For example, if a ticket’s description says that the site is down, the agent can assign the ticket to the web developer with the most available bandwidth
  

• Cross-system issue creation: When specific events occur in other systems (e.g., when a product issue case gets created in your CRM), your agent can create issues in your project management platform and share these issues with the appropriate team in an app like Slack

• Incident response coordination: When your agent detects critical issues, it can create high-priority tickets and automatically notify the engineering team in Slack with a link to the issue. Your agent can even create a dedicated incident channel in Slack, invite the on-call team, and share relevant context, like the link to the ticket
  

• Custom reporting and analytics: Your agent can build tailored reports by querying issues with specific filters, statuses, or labels. These reports can be used to help teams understand bottlenecks and track progress across projects

Examples of project management MCP servers

Here are a few MCP server examples across different types of providers.

Merge Agent Handler’s Linear MCP server

Agent Handler, which is a 3rd-party tool-calling platform powered by Merge, offers a Linear MCP server that supports 20+ tools.

Top features of Merge Agent Handler’s Linear MCP server:

• Customizable tools: While each tool is battle-tested by Merge’s team, you can easily modify any of the tools’ names, descriptions, and schemas

• Comprehensive logs: You can easily review all of the tool calls your agents make with the Linear MCP server via Merge Agent Handler’s logs. Each log includes details like the user who invoked the tool, when the tool was called, the arguments passed, and the information returned

• Data loss prevention (DLP): You can set rules in Merge Agent Handler that prevent your agents from sharing sensitive data from—or adding sensitive data to—Linear. For instance, you can set a rule that blocks your agents from sharing customers’ email addresses from Linear tickets in other systems

GitHub’s official MCP server

The project management platform for developers offers an official MCP server that’s already gained widespread adoption; it’s been forked more than 3k times, has 25k stars, and has accumulated more than 140 pull requests to date.

Top features of GitHub’s MCP server

• Secure, scoped authentication: The server uses native GitHub auth and permission scopes to tightly control the tools agents can read or modify

• Deep repository and code access: GitHub’s MCP server lets agents browse files, commits, and diffs to understand and reason about the full codebase context

• Issue and pull request intelligence: It provides structured access to issues, PRs, reviews, and discussions to help your agents execute workflows that involve triaging, summarizing, and reviewing code

Community MCP server for Asana

You can find several Asana MCP servers built by individuals online, but the one provided here is one of the most—if not the most—popular.

Its adoption stats aren’t as impressive as the previous MCP server, but it’s still high for a community MCP server (e.g., it’s been forked 43 times). 

Top features of this Asana MCP server

• Broad tool coverage: It lets your agents perform a wide range of actions on tasks, workspaces, projects, and more

• Secure testing: You can disable write operations to prevent accidental or unintended writes while testing the tools (e.g., adding an employee’s social security number in a task’s description)

• Highly extensible: Since the server is community provided, you can easily extend and/or customize its tools

Adopt enterprise-grade project management MCP servers with Merge Agent Handler

Merge Agent Handler offers several MCP servers that extend beyond the apps listed above; this includes a Zendesk MCP server, a Jira Service Management MCP server, and a ServiceNow MCP server.

Each of these servers include dozens of secure and reliable tools out of the box that are fully maintained by Merge. In addition, Merge Agent Handler lets you:

• Test tools across prompts before pushing them to production. Use the Evaluation Suite to validate tool performance and ensure reliability across different scenarios
  

• Add MCP servers. Integrate any remote MCP server into Agent Handler in seconds to expand your connector and tool library
  

• Access fully-searchable logs across your tool calls. Get complete visibility into every tool execution with detailed logs that help you debug issues and optimize performance
  

• Build rules that, if violated, trigger notifications for your team. Set up governance guardrails to manage tool usage and get instant alerts when agents behave unexpectedly

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