LABSCO SUMMARY

A task board where "assign it to the AI" is a real action.

The interesting part is not the tool surface but the model of an AI user: instead of the assistant guessing which tasks are its business, you assign it the ones you want done, and it reads its own queue. Setup is unusually short for Claude Desktop and Cursor, since both have a one-step path from tone's own admin screen.

What it is

The MCP server for tone, a team task manager built for people and AI working from the same board. With it connected, an AI tool can create and update tasks in your workspace.

What you get

Task creation and updates in tone, driven from whichever MCP client you use
AI users you create in tone's admin screen — assign one to a task and it marks that task as the work you want handed to the AI
A .dxt extension file on the releases page that installs into Claude Desktop by drag and drop
A deep link from tone's admin screen that sets Cursor up without hand-editing config
A plain npx entry for any other MCP client

Requirements

A tone account, and an AI user secret issued from tone's admin screen — it starts with aitk-. Pass it after -s when the client runs npx -y tone-mcp, or paste it into the Claude Desktop extension after dropping in the .dxt file.

Setup effort

One command plus a key — npx -y tone-mcp -s <YOUR_AITK>, then supply credentials

See installation options

USE CASES

01

Handing implementation work to the assistant

Assign the task to your AI user in tone, then tell the assistant to read its tasks and start.

02

Filing what came out of a conversation

Have the assistant create the follow-up tasks in tone as they are agreed, rather than pasting them later.

03

Keeping the board current during a long run

Let the assistant update the task as it progresses, so the humans on the board see state without asking.

BEFORE YOU INSTALL

What to know first

Requires

npx on PATH

Where it runs

The documented client runs the server on your machine.

INSTALLATION

Connect your client

Server setup

TERMINAL

npx -y tone-mcp -s <YOUR_AITK>

MCP Clients

Any MCP client

ANY MCP CLIENT · JSON

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tone": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tone-mcp",
        "-s",
        "<YOUR_AITK>"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Tone