Does Todoist have an official MCP server?

Yes. Todoist publishes its own MCP server with first-party help documentation for using it with Claude, and the repository is maintained by Doist. That makes it one of the few task managers where you are not relying on a community project.

Do I need a paid Todoist plan to use the MCP server?

The MCP server uses the standard Todoist API, so it follows whatever your account can already do. Features your plan does not include stay unavailable through the assistant too.

Why does Claude say the Todoist server failed to connect?

In order of likelihood: the API token has a stray space or newline, the config file is not valid JSON, or the client was not fully restarted after the config was saved. Quit the app completely rather than closing the window.

Can ChatGPT use the Todoist MCP server too?

Todoist documents a ChatGPT route separately from the Claude one. The capabilities are similar; the setup path is not the same, so follow the documentation for the client you actually use.

Is it safe to give an assistant write access to my task list?

It can create, edit and complete tasks, so treat it like any other app with your token. Assume anything it can read may end up in a conversation, and keep genuinely sensitive detail out of task titles.

Todoist MCP — Official Server, Setup for Claude & ChatGPT

Todoist is the one task manager in this category where the MCP question has a clean answer: there is a first-party server, Todoist documents it themselves, and the repository is maintained by Doist rather than by a weekend contributor. That matters more than it sounds. Community MCP servers for task apps go stale within a release or two, and when they break the error you get back is a tool-call failure with no useful message.

What people are actually asking

Almost every search that lands on this topic is one of three questions: does Todoist have an MCP server at all, how do I add it to Claude, and why did my setup fail. The first two are documentation questions. The third is nearly always one of a small set of causes: an API token pasted with a trailing space, a config file edited in an app that rewrote the quotes, or a client that was never restarted after the config changed.

What it feels like once it works

You stop opening the app to do small things. "What's overdue in my work project" returns a list. "Move everything I didn't finish today to tomorrow morning" does it. The value is not the automation, it is that the friction of a two-second task drops to nothing, which is exactly the friction that makes people stop capturing tasks at all.

Where it stops being useful

MCP is a read-and-write channel, not a planner. An assistant will happily reschedule forty tasks into tomorrow because you asked it to, and you will wake up to a day that cannot physically be done. If overcommitting is your failure mode, the limit has to live in the tool — a capacity view, a hard cap on today — not in the prompt.

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.

Setup, step by step

Create an API token

In Todoist, open Settings, then Integrations, then Developer, and copy your API token. Paste it somewhere temporary without adding a space or newline.

Add the server to your client config

Open your MCP client's config file and add the Todoist server entry with your token as the environment variable it expects. Validate that the file is still valid JSON before saving.

Restart the client completely

Quit the application rather than closing its window. MCP servers are started at launch, so a config change does nothing until the process restarts.

Test with a read before a write

Ask for your overdue tasks first. If reading works and writing fails, the problem is permissions, not the connection.

Todoist MCP: connecting Todoist to Claude and ChatGPT

What it can do

What it can't do