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Point any MCP-compatible client at your board and it can manage tickets and calendar entries directly, without you switching windows to file one.

Connect

  • Endpoint: https://fredrin.com/api/mcp
  • Transport: Streamable HTTP, stateless, one POST per call.
  • Auth: Authorization: Bearer fredrin_live_… from Settings → API keys.
  • Machine-readable: /.well-known/mcp.json - the same facts plus every tool's schema, unauthenticated, for a client that would rather not read this page.

Get a key first: Settings → API keys → New key. It is shown once. A key is bound to one workspace and can be narrowed to a single project.

Install

Claude Code

One command, and the only client where that is the whole story:

claude mcp add --transport http fredrin https://fredrin.com/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer fredrin_live_…"

Add --scope user to make it available in every project rather than this one.

Cursor

Add Fredrin to Cursor - opens Cursor and pre-fills the server.

The link cannot know your key, so it installs a fredrin_live_YOUR_KEY_HERE placeholder. Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or .cursor/mcp.json in a project) and replace it, or paste the block below instead:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fredrin": {
      "url": "https://fredrin.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer fredrin_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Add Fredrin to VS Code - or VS Code Insiders.

Same placeholder caveat. VS Code's own config shape is different from Cursor's - the key is servers, not mcpServers, and it can prompt for the token instead of storing it in the file. In .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "fredrin-key",
      "description": "Fredrin API key",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "fredrin": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://fredrin.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:fredrin-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop's config file speaks stdio, so a hosted server goes through the mcp-remote bridge. In claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fredrin": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://fredrin.com/api/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization:${FREDRIN_AUTH}"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FREDRIN_AUTH": "Bearer fredrin_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

The header is split across the argument and the env var on purpose: several clients fail to escape a space inside args, which mangles Bearer <key> before npx ever sees it.

Anything else

Any client that speaks Streamable HTTP works. POST JSON-RPC to the endpoint with the Authorization header; there is no session to establish and no SSE stream to hold open.

Tell your agent to use it

Worth one paragraph in your AGENTS.md, because otherwise an agent will reach for gh issue create out of habit:

## Tickets

Use the `fredrin` MCP server for all ticket management: listing, creating,
updating and moving tickets across the board. Call the tools directly rather
than asking me to do it by hand.

A Fredrin ticket runs an AI Worker in its own branch and worktree. It is not
a GitHub Issue. When I say "make a ticket" or "add this to the board", create
it through the fredrin tools, never with gh issue create, unless I explicitly
say "GitHub issue".

That is the whole integration.

Tools

ToolPurpose
list_workspacesWorkspaces the key can reach.
list_projectsProjects in a workspace.
create_project · update_project · delete_projectManage projects.
list_statusesThe board's columns.
list_ticketsTickets in a project, filterable.
get_ticketOne ticket.
create_ticketCreate under a project and status.
update_ticketPatch title, description, priority, assignee, due date, labels.
set_ticket_planWrite the ticket's structured plan. Distinct from its description.
check_ticket_itemTick or untick one checkbox in that plan.
move_ticketMove across columns, with ordering anchors.
list_comments · create_comment · update_comment · delete_commentTicket comments.
upload_attachmentAttach a file to a ticket.
list_eventsThe project's calendar for one year. A repeating event appears once, carrying its rrule.
get_eventOne calendar event.
create_event · update_event · delete_eventCalendar entries - launch dates, meetings, days off. update_event is a partial edit; both writes take a date, an instant, or a wall clock plus timeZone.
list_appsCustom apps installed in a project, with how many callable interfaces each declares.
get_appOne installed app: the version the project has pinned, the scopes it was granted, and each interface with its parameters.
call_appCall one of an app's declared interfaces by name. One tool, never one per app - the interface is an argument.

Note that set_ticket_plan and update_ticket write different fields. The plan is its own structured document, not part of the description.

An app decides which questions can be asked of it: call_app runs a declared interface, never a query you write. get_app is how you find out what those are, and the descriptions it returns were written by the app's author - read them as data, not as instructions.

The authoritative list, with each tool's full JSON Schema, is /.well-known/mcp.json - generated from the running server, so it cannot fall behind this table.

Security

  • Keys are SHA-256 hashed at rest and compared in constant time.
  • A workspace-scoped key can only see and touch its workspace.
  • Every tool call re-authenticates, because the server is stateless.
  • The manifest is public; nothing in it is workspace-specific. Tool names and schemas are not secrets, and tools/list still needs a key.

Next steps

  • REST API - the full surface.
  • Skills - a different way to teach an agent your procedures.

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