Asana over MCP is mostly pleasant, because the data model is shallow: workspace, project, section, task. That means fewer calls to reach the thing you meant than in tools with deeper hierarchies, and fewer chances for the assistant to guess wrong.
Permissions are the boundary, and that is correct
An assistant using your token is you. It cannot see projects you cannot see, and it cannot escalate. The awkward case is the opposite one: teams assume the assistant is seeing the whole workspace and ask for a portfolio-wide answer that quietly excludes every private project. If completeness matters, check what it can see before you trust a summary.
Rules will bite you once
Asana rules run on changes made through the API just as they do in the interface. Ask an assistant to move twenty tasks into a section that has a rule attached, and the rule fires twenty times. That is usually what you want. Occasionally it means twenty notifications to a client. Do one first, watch what happens, then do the rest.
The strong use case
Meeting-to-tasks. Paste notes, get correctly assigned tasks with dates in the right project. The second one is weekly reporting: "what closed in this project last week, grouped by assignee" is dull work that disappears.
Where LemTask stands today
LemTask does not ship an MCP server yet, and we are not going to pretend otherwise on a page developers will read. What LemTask has working right now is outbound and inbound webhooks, Zapier, Make and Apple Shortcuts, which covers "when a task is created, do X" and "create a task from anything that can send an HTTP request". An MCP connection is on the roadmap; when it ships and we have tested it end to end with Claude, this page will say so with the config block, and not a day earlier.