Kaiten runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 95 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 18 Jul 2026.
Manage Kaiten spaces, boards, cards, comments, and tags with compact MCP responses.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Kaiten every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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 kaiten-mcp -e 'KAITEN_API_TOKEN=<KAITEN_API_TOKEN>' -- uvx kaiten-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"kaiten-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"kaiten-mcp"
],
"env": {
"KAITEN_API_TOKEN": "<KAITEN_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.kaiten-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["kaiten-mcp"]
env = { KAITEN_API_TOKEN = "<KAITEN_API_TOKEN>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"kaiten-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"kaiten-mcp"
],
"env": {
"KAITEN_API_TOKEN": "<KAITEN_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"kaiten-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"kaiten-mcp"
],
"env": {
"KAITEN_API_TOKEN": "<KAITEN_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<KAITEN_API_TOKEN> (Kaiten API token from Profile > API key).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
KAITEN_WORKSPACE_SLUG (Kaiten workspace slug. Required unless KAITEN_BASE_URL is set), KAITEN_BASE_URL (Full Kaiten API root for on-prem or custom domains. Required unless KAITEN_WORKSPACE_SLUG is set).
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