How to integrate Kanban Tool MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Kanban Tool account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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Kanban Tool is a visual project and task management platform for boards, workflows, tasks, collaboration, and time tracking. Use it to keep team work visible, organized, and moving without messy status checks.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Kanban Tool account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Kanban Tool with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Kanban Tool

Ask your agent to connect to Kanban Tool, or simply request any Kanban Tool-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Kanban Tool connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Kanban Tool or request any Kanban Tool-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the Kanban Tool MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Kanban Tool MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Kanban Tool account. It provides structured and secure access to your boards, workflows, tasks, subtasks, comments, and time tracking details, so your agent can review boards, find tasks, create work, update progress, and manage task lifecycles on your behalf.

  • Board and workflow review: Have your agent list available boards and inspect their workflow stages and collaborators before planning or assigning work.
  • Task search and details: Instruct your agent to search visible tasks and retrieve their comments, subtasks, attachments, change history, dependencies, and time tracking details.
  • Task creation and updates: Let the agent create tasks, place them in the right workflow stage, assign owners, and update estimates, due dates, tags, or external references.
  • Subtask and comment management: Direct your agent to add task comments, create or update subtasks, mark subtasks complete, and remove subtasks that are no longer needed.
  • Task lifecycle control: Have your agent archive, unarchive, remove, or restore tasks as priorities and project needs change.

Way Forward

With Kanban Tool connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Kanban Tool action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Add comment

Add a text comment to a task.

Change task lifecycle

Archive, unarchive, soft-delete, or restore a task.

Create subtask

Create a subtask under an existing task or create it unattached for later use, with optional assignment and completion state.

Create task

Create a task on a board with optional workflow placement, assignment, estimates, due dates, tags, external references, and previously created unattached subtasks.

Delete subtask

Soft-delete a subtask and return its tombstone.

Get board

Fetch a board's workflow configuration and collaborators without loading its full active task collection.

Get task

Fetch a task with its comments, subtasks, attachments, changelog, dependencies, and time trackers.

List boards

List boards available to the connected Kanban Tool user, including each board's permissions and account feature/tier context.

Search tasks

Search visible tasks with Kanban Tool query syntax and return one page plus a continuation cursor.

Update subtask

Update a subtask's name, assignee, or completion state.

Update task

Update a task's content, placement, assignment, estimates, dates, tags, or external references.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Kanban Tool MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Kanban Tool tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Kanban Tool and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Hermes fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Kanban Tool tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Kanban Tool scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Kanban Tool data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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