Is there an official Trello MCP server?

Not that we could find. The options are community servers on GitHub plus the general-purpose connector platforms that expose Trello as one of many tools. Check commit dates before installing any of them.

Which Trello MCP server should I use?

Pick on maintenance rather than stars: commits within the last couple of months, a README that lists the exact tools exposed, and a clearly stated auth model. Abandoned servers fail with errors that tell you nothing.

Why can my assistant read my boards but not create cards?

Almost always a token scope problem. Trello tokens can be read-only, and a read-only token produces exactly this pattern. Regenerate the token with write access and restart the client.

Does a Trello MCP server see Power-Up data?

Generally no. Power-Ups store their data outside the core card fields, so a server built on the standard API will not surface it. Workflows that depend on Power-Up fields need a different route.

Trello MCP — Community Servers, Claude Setup, Known Limits

Trello MCP: community servers, setup, and what breaks

No first-party server. Which community option to pick, and the board-permission traps.

Community serversLast checked: September 2026

We found no first-party Trello MCP server when we last checked. Several community servers exist on GitHub and are listed in the MCP directories; quality varies a lot between them.

Trello's MCP situation is the common one across this whole category: no first-party server, several community servers of uneven quality, and directory listings that do not tell you which is maintained. If you pick from a search result without checking, you will likely land on a repository whose last commit predates the current Trello API surface.

How to choose between the community servers

Three signals, in order. Recent commits inside the last couple of months, because the Trello API moves and dead servers fail silently. An explicit list of the tools the server exposes in the README, because a server that documents four tools and implements eleven is a server nobody has read recently. And a stated auth model — key plus token, with the scopes named. Anything asking for credentials without saying what it does with them is not worth the install.

The permission trap

Trello's token scopes are the single biggest source of "it connected but nothing works". A read-only token produces a server that lists boards perfectly and fails every write with an unhelpful error. If reads succeed and writes fail, regenerate the token with write scope before touching the config again.

What it is genuinely good for

Trello's structure — board, list, card — maps unusually well onto conversation. "Move everything in Review that has been there more than a week back to In Progress and comment why" is a sentence, and through MCP it is also an action. Reporting is the other strong case: asking for a summary of what moved this week is faster than reading the board.

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

Pick a maintained server

Compare the community servers on recent commit activity and on whether the README lists the tools it exposes. Avoid anything with no commits in the last few months.

Generate a key and token with write scope

Trello needs both. Create them from your Trello developer settings and make sure the token includes write access, not just read.

Add the entry to your MCP client config

Add the server with your key and token as environment variables, keeping the file valid JSON, then quit and reopen the client.

Verify with one read and one write

Ask it to list a board, then to add a test card. If only the read works, fix the token scope rather than the config.

Trello MCP: community servers, setup, and what breaks

What it can do

What it can't do