Enhanced Todoist MCP Server Extended

Extended Version - Forked and enhanced by kydycode from the original @abhiz123/todoist-mcp-server

A comprehensive MCP (Model Context Protocol) server implementation that provides full integration between Claude and Todoist. This extended version includes additional features, improved compatibility, and enhanced functionality using the complete Todoist API with the latest MCP SDK (@doist/todoist-api-typescript@4.0.4). Completed tasks retrieval uses the Todoist REST API v1.

🆕 Extended Version Features

🔧 Technical Improvements

• Updated Todoist SDK: Now using @doist/todoist-api-typescript@4.0.4.
• Updated MCP SDK Compatibility: Compatible with MCP SDK 0.5.0.
• Enhanced Error Handling: Comprehensive error handling with detailed error messages.
• Improved TypeScript Support: Better type safety and compatibility.
• Optimized API Usage: Efficient use of Todoist API, including getTasksByFilter for robust search and moveTasks for semantic task movement.
• Better Response Formatting: Enhanced task, project, and label formatting for better readability, including project names in search results.

✨ Enhanced Task Management (11 Tools)

• Direct ID-based Operations: Efficient task operations using task IDs.
• Comprehensive Task Creation: Support for subtasks, labels, projects, sections, priorities.
• Quick Add Integration: Natural language task creation using Todoist's Quick Add.
• Advanced Task Search: Robust keyword search using Todoist's filter engine (search: your query).
• Task Movement Capabilities: Move tasks between projects, sections, or make them subtasks.
• Bulk Task Operations: Move multiple tasks with subtasks in a single operation.
• Task State Management: Complete, reopen, and manage task lifecycle.
• Detailed Task Output: Search and get-task operations return more task details.

🗂️ Complete Project Management (5 Tools)

• Full Project CRUD: Create, read, update, delete projects with all properties.
• Sub-project Support: Create hierarchical project structures.
• Project Customization: Set colors, favorites, view styles (list/board).
• Enhanced Project Listing: Improved project retrieval with pagination and detailed formatting.

📋 Section Management (4 Tools)

• Complete Section Operations: Create, read, update, delete sections.
• Project-specific Sections: Filter and manage sections within projects.
• Section Organization: Proper ordering and structure management.

🏷️ Label Management (5 Tools)

• Full Label CRUD: Create, read, update, delete labels.
• Label Customization: Set names, colors, favorites, order.
• Paginated Label Listing: Efficiently retrieve all labels.

💬 Comment Management (5 Tools)

• Complete Comment CRUD: Create, read, update, delete comments on tasks and projects.
• Attachment Support: Add file attachments to comments with metadata.
• Flexible Targeting: Comments can be attached to either tasks or projects.
• Paginated Comment Retrieval: Efficiently browse through comment threads.

✅ Completed Tasks History (1 Tool) 🆕

• REST API v1 Integration: Access completed task history via Todoist API v1 (/api/v1/tasks/completed/by_completion_date). Migrated from deprecated Sync API v9.
• Flexible Filtering: Filter by project, section, date range (since/until).
• Cursor-based Pagination: Efficient retrieval of large histories.
• Rich Metadata: Shows labels, priorities, descriptions, note counts, completion timestamps.

🛠️ Available Tools (Total 31)

Task Operations (11 tools)

Project Operations (5 tools)

Section Operations (4 tools)

Label Operations (5 tools)

Comment Operations (5 tools)

Completed Tasks Operations (1 tool) 🆕

🚀 Installation & Setup

Local Development Setup

# Clone the extended repository
git clone https://github.com/kydycode/todoist-mcp-server-ext.git
cd todoist-mcp-server-ext

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

Getting a Todoist API Token

1. Log in to your Todoist account
2. Navigate to Settings → Integrations → Developer
3. Copy your API token

Usage with Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

Option 1: Run locally built version

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "todoist-mcp-server": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/your/todoist-mcp-server-ext/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "TODOIST_API_TOKEN": "your_api_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Option 2: Run via npm/npx (recommended for published version)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "todoist-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@kydycode/todoist-mcp-server-ext@latest"],
      "env": {
        "TODOIST_API_TOKEN": "your_api_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Option 3: Install globally first

# Install the extended version globally
npm install -g @kydycode/todoist-mcp-server-ext@latest

# Then use in Claude Desktop config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    

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