ClickUp's JSON is famously padded with feature flags, avatar URLs and versioning blobs; this server removes them, which is what makes long task-triage conversations affordable. It covers tasks thoroughly but does not move a task between lists — the v2 API has no endpoint for that, so the web UI stays the way to do it.
A ClickUp MCP server focused on task management. It wraps the ClickUp v2 API and trims each response before returning it: whoami drops from about 3,500 characters to about 160, and a created comment from about 1,500 to 38, so more of the context window stays available for the work itself.
- clickup_whoami, clickup_get_spaces, clickup_get_folders, clickup_get_lists and clickup_get_list — walk from the workspace down to one list and its statuses
- clickup_create_list and clickup_delete_list — create a list in a folder or space, or delete one permanently
- clickup_get_task, clickup_create_task, clickup_update_task, clickup_get_tasks and clickup_search_tasks — read, write and search tasks; assignees are changed through add and rem arrays rather than a flat list
- clickup_set_custom_field — set a custom field value, which update_task cannot do
- clickup_delete_task — delete a task permanently
- clickup_get_space_tags, clickup_create_space_tag, clickup_edit_space_tag, clickup_delete_space_tag, clickup_add_tag_to_task and clickup_remove_tag_from_task — space tags and their assignment
- clickup_create_checklist, clickup_edit_checklist, clickup_delete_checklist, clickup_create_checklist_item, clickup_edit_checklist_item and clickup_delete_checklist_item — checklists and their items
- clickup_add_dependency, clickup_delete_dependency, clickup_add_task_link and clickup_delete_task_link — waiting-on and blocking relationships, and plain links between tasks
- clickup_create_comment, clickup_get_comments, clickup_update_comment, clickup_create_reply and clickup_get_replies — comments, threaded replies and resolution, paginated 25 per page
- clickup_get_workspace_members and clickup_get_list_members — who is in the workspace, and who can see a given list
A ClickUp Personal API Token, generated under Settings > Apps and passed as CLICKUP_API_TOKEN. Clients launch it with npx @cavort-it-systems/clickup-mcp over stdio, so there is nothing to install first.
One command plus a key — npx @cavort-it-systems/clickup-mcp, then supply credentials