MantisBT MCP Server

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

claude mcp add mantisbt-mcp-server -e 'MANTIS_BASE_URL=<MANTIS_BASE_URL>' -e 'MANTIS_API_KEY=<MANTIS_API_KEY>' -- npx -y @dpesch/mantisbt-mcp-server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mantisbt-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dpesch/mantisbt-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MANTIS_API_KEY": "<MANTIS_API_KEY>",
        "MANTIS_BASE_URL": "<MANTIS_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.mantisbt-mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@dpesch/mantisbt-mcp-server"]
env = { MANTIS_BASE_URL = "<MANTIS_BASE_URL>", MANTIS_API_KEY = "<MANTIS_API_KEY>" }

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mantisbt-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dpesch/mantisbt-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MANTIS_API_KEY": "<MANTIS_API_KEY>",
        "MANTIS_BASE_URL": "<MANTIS_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "mantisbt-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dpesch/mantisbt-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MANTIS_API_KEY": "<MANTIS_API_KEY>",
        "MANTIS_BASE_URL": "<MANTIS_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Put your own values in place of <MANTIS_BASE_URL> (Base URL of the MantisBT REST API, e.g. https://your-mantis.example.com/api/rest), <MANTIS_API_KEY> (MantisBT API key (Profile → API Tokens in MantisBT)). The author’s registry entry marks them as required.

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: MANTIS_USE_INDEX_PHP (Use /api/rest/index.php/ for MantisBT installations without URL rewriting. Detected automatically when MANTIS_BASE_URL ends with /api/rest/index.php), MANTIS_CACHE_DIR (Directory for the metadata cache. Defaults to ~/.cache/mantisbt-mcp), MANTIS_CACHE_TTL (Metadata cache TTL in seconds. Default: 3600 (1 hour)), TRANSPORT (Transport mode. 'stdio' for local use (default), 'http' for remote/team deployments), PORT (HTTP port when TRANSPORT=http. Default: 3000), MCP_HTTP_HOST (Bind address when TRANSPORT=http. Default: 127.0.0.1 (local only). Use 0.0.0.0 for Docker/remote), MCP_HTTP_TOKEN (Optional Bearer token to protect the /mcp endpoint when TRANSPORT=http), MANTIS_SEARCH_ENABLED (Enable offline semantic search (requires ~80 MB model download on first use)), MANTIS_SEARCH_BACKEND (Vector store backend for semantic search. 'vectra' (default, pure JS) or 'sqlite-vec' (faster for >10k issues)), MANTIS_SEARCH_DIR (Directory for the semantic search index. Defaults to ~/.cache/mantisbt-mcp/search), MANTIS_SEARCH_MODEL (Hugging Face model for embeddings. Default: Xenova/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2), MANTIS_SEARCH_THREADS (ONNX inference threads for the embedding model. Default: 1), MANTIS_UPLOAD_DIR (If set, restricts file uploads to this directory (path traversal protection)).