BugHerd MCP Servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for working with BugHerd from AI clients.

This repo ships two entrypoints:

Admin server: bugherd-admin-mcp

• Broad BugHerd API v2 coverage (projects, tasks, columns, comments, attachments, webhooks)
• Transports: stdio (default) and HTTP/SSE (shared mode)
• Includes destructive operations (delete project/attachment/webhook)

Transport details: see below (stdio vs HTTP/SSE).

Project worker server: bugherd-project-worker-mcp

Designed for an AI client that operates inside a single project.

• Project scope is fixed by BUGHERD_PROJECT_ID (the client never needs it)
• Only a small, task-focused tool surface
• No tools for projects/users/attachments/webhooks
• Task updates are limited to status moves only
• Output is truncated to reduce context overflow

Project worker tools

• columns_list — list project columns with id and name
• tasks_list — list tasks (max BUGHERD_PAGE_SIZE per call) + pagination cursors
• task_get — task details by local_task_id (description chunk + description_next_cursor)
• task_description_more — aux: read long description in chunks (next_cursor or numeric offset)
• task_move_status — move task to a column by to_column_id
• comments_list — list comments (max BUGHERD_PAGE_SIZE per call) + pagination cursors
• comment_add — add a comment as BUGHERD_BOT_USER_ID (max 2000 chars)

Project worker resources

• bugherd://columns — JSON with columns and config hints

Installation

Prereqs:

• Node.js 18+
• BugHerd API key (BUGHERD_API_KEY)

Recommended: Use npx (no install)

This runs the package and executes the CLI from its bin entry.

# Admin server (from npm)
BUGHERD_API_KEY=your-api-key npx -p bugherd-mcp bugherd-admin-mcp

# Admin server (directly from GitHub)
BUGHERD_API_KEY=your-api-key \
  npx -p git+https://github.com/devmanorg/bugherd-mcp.git bugherd-admin-mcp

# Project worker server (from npm)
BUGHERD_API_KEY=your-api-key \
BUGHERD_PROJECT_ID=123 \
BUGHERD_BOT_USER_ID=456 \
npx -p bugherd-mcp bugherd-project-worker-mcp

# Project worker server (directly from GitHub)
BUGHERD_API_KEY=your-api-key \
BUGHERD_PROJECT_ID=123 \
BUGHERD_BOT_USER_ID=456 \
npx -p git+https://github.com/devmanorg/bugherd-mcp.git bugherd-project-worker-mcp

Option B: Install locally (dev)

Option C: Install globally

npm i -g bugherd-mcp
# or from this repo:
# npm i -g .

BUGHERD_API_KEY=your-api-key bugherd-admin-mcp

Configuration (Opencode)

Recommended: configure Opencode to launch the server via npx.

Admin server (stdio)

~/.opencode.json (or project-local ./.opencode.json):

Project worker server (stdio)

Notes:

• BUGHERD_ACTIVE_COLUMN_IDS is an optional comma-separated hint/filter (e.g. "10,11,12").
• tasks_list.sort is required. Sorting is applied within the fetched page.

Transport

Both servers support:

• stdio (default): no PORT env var; one process per client session
• HTTP/SSE: set PORT; one long-lived server can serve multiple sessions

Health endpoint (HTTP mode): GET /health

Development

Install deps:

Run with auto-reload on changes:

npm run dev:mcp:admin
npm run dev:mcp:project-worker

HTTP/SSE mode (handy for debugging):

npm run dev:mcp:admin:http
npm run dev:mcp:project-worker:http

Docker

Build image

docker build -t bugherd-mcp:local .

Run admin server (HTTP/SSE)

docker run --rm -p 3003:3003 \
  -e PORT=3003 \
  -e BUGHERD_API_KEY=your-api-key \
  bugherd-mcp:local

Run project worker (HTTP/SSE)

docker run --rm -p 3004:3004 \
  -e PORT=3004 \
  -e BUGHERD_API_KEY=your-api-key \
  -e BUGHERD_PROJECT_ID=123 \
  -e BUGHERD_BOT_USER_ID=456 \
  --entrypoint node bugherd-mcp:local dist/bugherd-project-worker-mcp.js

Docker Compose (recommended for local dev)

cp .env.example .env
# edit .env then:
docker compose up --build

Acknowledgements

This project was originally based on https://github.com/Berckan/bugherd-mcp and has since been significantly reworked and extended. It is now maintained as an independent project. Thanks to the original author for the initial implementation.