MantisBT MCP Server
Integrates MantisBT bug tracker into Claude and other MCP clients via the REST API. Read and manage issues, notes, file attachments, tags, relationships, and monitors — with optional offline semantic search across all issues.
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MCP server for MantisBT REST API – read and manage bug tracker issues directly from Claude Code and other MCP-compatible clients.
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README.md
MantisBT MCP Server
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that integrates the MantisBT REST API into Claude Code and other MCP-capable clients. Read, create, and update issues directly from your editor.
Requirements
- Node.js ≥ 18
- MantisBT installation with REST API enabled (version 2.23+)
- MantisBT API token (create under My Account → API Tokens)
Installation
Via npx (recommended):
Add to ~/.claude/claude_desktop_config.json (Claude Desktop) or your localclaude_desktop_config.json (Claude Code):
{
"mcpServers": {
"mantisbt": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@dpesch/mantisbt-mcp-server"],
"env": {
"MANTIS_BASE_URL": "https://your-mantis.example.com/api/rest",
"MANTIS_API_KEY": "your-api-token"
}
}
}
}
Local build:
git clone https://codeberg.org/dpesch/mantisbt-mcp-server
cd mantisbt-mcp-server
npm run init
npm run build
{
"mcpServers": {
"mantisbt": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/path/to/mantisbt-mcp-server/dist/index.js"],
"env": {
"MANTIS_BASE_URL": "https://your-mantis.example.com/api/rest",
"MANTIS_API_KEY": "your-api-token"
}
}
}
}
Configuration
Environment variables
| Variable | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANTIS_BASE_URL | ✅ | – | Base URL of your MantisBT installation. Both https://your-mantis.example.com and https://your-mantis.example.com/api/rest are accepted — the /api/rest suffix is normalized automatically. |
| MANTIS_API_KEY | ✅ | – | API token for authentication |
| MANTIS_CACHE_DIR | – | ~/.cache/mantisbt-mcp | Directory for the metadata cache |
| MANTIS_CACHE_TTL | – | 3600 | Cache lifetime in seconds |
| TRANSPORT | – | stdio | Transport mode: stdio or http |
| PORT | – | 3000 | Port for HTTP mode |
| MCP_HTTP_HOST | – | 127.0.0.1 | Bind address for HTTP mode. Changed from 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1 — the server now listens on localhost only by default. Set to 0.0.0.0 for Docker or remote access. |
| MCP_HTTP_TOKEN | – | – | When set, the /mcp endpoint requires Authorization: Bearer . The /health endpoint is always public. |
| MANTIS_SEARCH_ENABLED | – | false | Set to true to enable semantic search |
| MANTIS_SEARCH_BACKEND | – | vectra | Vector store backend: vectra (pure JS) or sqlite-vec (requires manual install) |
| MANTIS_SEARCH_DIR | – | {MANTIS_CACHE_DIR}/search | Directory for the search index |
| MANTIS_SEARCH_MODEL | – | Xenova/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 | Embedding model name (downloaded once on first use, ~80 MB) |
| MANTIS_SEARCH_THREADS | – | 1 | Number of ONNX intra-op threads for the embedding model. Default is 1 to prevent CPU saturation on multi-core machines and WSL. Increase only if index rebuild speed matters and the host is dedicated to this workload. |
| MANTIS_UPLOAD_DIR | – | – | Restrict upload_file to files within this directory. When set, any file_path outside the directory is rejected (path traversal attempts via ../ are blocked). Without this variable there is no restriction. |
Available tools
Issues
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| get_issue | Retrieve an issue by its numeric ID |
| get_issues | Retrieve multiple issues by ID in one call (1–50 IDs); missing or inaccessible IDs return null at their position instead of failing the call |
| list_issues | Filter issues by project, status, author, and more; optional select for field projection and status for client-side status filtering — canonical English status names (e.g. "new", "resolved") are matched by ID, making the filter language-independent on localized installations |
| create_issue | Create a new issue; severity and priority must be canonical English names (e.g. minor, major, normal, high) — call get_issue_enums to see all valid values and their localized labels; optional handler parameter accepts a username as alternative to handler_id (resolved against project members) |
| update_issue | Update an existing issue; enum fields (status, priority, severity, resolution, reproducibility) accept canonical English names, localized names, or numeric IDs — the server resolves names to IDs automatically |
| delete_issue | Delete an issue |
Notes
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| list_notes | List all notes of an issue |
| add_note | Add a note to an issue |
| delete_note | Delete a note |
Attachments
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| list_issue_files | List attachments of an issue |
| upload_file | Upload a file to an issue — either by local file_path or Base64-encoded content + filename |
Relationships
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| add_relationship | Create a relationship between two issues; optional type_name parameter accepts a string name (e.g. "related_to", "duplicate_of") as alternative to numeric type_id |
| remove_relationship | Remove a relationship from an issue (use the id from the relationship object, not the type) |
Monitors
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| add_monitor | Add a user as a monitor of an issue |
| remove_monitor | Remove a user as a monitor of an issue |
Tags
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| list_tags | List all available tags; falls back to the metadata cache when GET /tags returns 404 (run sync_metadata first to populate) |
| attach_tags | Attach tags to an issue |
| detach_tag | Remove a tag from an issue |
Projects
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| list_projects | List all accessible projects; returns normalized project data (consistent with sync_metadata cache) |
| get_project_versions | Get versions of a project; optional obsolete and inherit booleans to include obsolete or parent-inherited versions |
| get_project_categories | Get categories of a project |
| get_project_users | Get users of a project |
| find_project_member | Search project members by name, real name, or email (case-insensitive substring match); optional query and limit (default 10, max 100); cache-first |
Semantic search (optional)
Instead of exact keyword matching, semantic search understands the meaning behind a query. Ask in plain language — the search engine finds conceptually related issues even when the wording doesn't match:
- "login fails after password reset" — finds issues about authentication edge cases
- "performance problems on the checkout page" — surfaces related reports regardless of the exact terminology used
- "duplicate entries in the invoice list" — catches issues described as "shown twice", "double records", etc.
The embedding model (~80 MB) runs entirely offline — no OpenAI key, no external API. It is downloaded once on first start and cached locally. Issues are indexed incrementally on every server start (only new and updated issues are re-indexed).
Activate with MANTIS_SEARCH_ENABLED=true.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| search_issues | Natural language search over all indexed issues — returns top-N results with cosine similarity score; optional select (comma-separated field names) enriches each result with the requested issue fields; optional highlight (boolean, default false) adds a highlights field per result with keyword-matched excerpts from summary and description (matched terms shown in **bold**) |
| rebuild_search_index | Build or update the search index; full: true clears and rebuilds from scratch |
| get_search_index_status | Return the current fill level of the search index: how many issues are indexed vs. total, and the timestamp of the last sync |
Which backend to choose?
| vectra (default) | sqlite-vec | |
|---|---|---|
| Dependencies | None (pure JS) | Requires native build tools |
| Install | Included | npm install sqlite-vec better-sqlite3 |
| Best for | Up to ~10,000 issues | 10,000+ issues |
| Performance | Fast enough for most setups | Faster for large corpora |
Start with vectra. Switch to sqlite-vec if indexing or query times become noticeably slow.
npm install sqlite-vec better-sqlite3
# then set MANTIS_SEARCH_BACKEND=sqlite-vec
Metadata & system
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| get_issue_fields | Return all field names valid for the select parameter of list_issues |
| get_metadata | Retrieve a compact metadata summary: project/tag counts and per-project user/version/category counts; use get_metadata_full for complete arrays |
| get_metadata_full | Return the full raw metadata cache as minified JSON (all projects with complete fields, users/versions/categories per project, all tags) |
| sync_metadata | Refresh the metadata cache |
| list_filters | List saved filters |
| get_current_user | Retrieve your own user profile |
| list_languages | List available languages |
| get_config | Show server configuration (base URL, cache TTL) |
| get_issue_enums | Return valid ID/name pairs for all issue enum fields (severity, status, priority, resolution, reproducibility) — use before create_issue / update_issue to look up correct values; on localized installations each entry may include a canonical_name with the standard English API name |
| get_mantis_version | Get MantisBT version and check for updates |
| get_mcp_version | Return the version of this mantisbt-mcp-server instance |
Available resources
MCP Resources are URI-addressable, read-only data that clients can fetch directly without calling a tool. They are the third MCP primitive alongside Tools and Prompts. Note that Resource support is less widely implemented in MCP clients than Tools — check your client's documentation.
| Resource URI | Description |
|---|---|
| mantis://me | Profile of the authenticated API user (live fetch) |
| mantis://projects | All accessible MantisBT projects as a compact list (cache-backed, refreshed via sync_metadata) |
| mantis://projects/{id} | Combined project view: project fields + users + versions + categories in one call; cache-first, list-support for enumerating all available project URIs |
| mantis://enums | Valid values for all issue enum fields: severity, priority, status, resolution, reproducibility (live fetch) |
Available prompts
MCP prompt templates are conversation starters that instruct the LLM to collect structured input and then call the appropriate tool. They are not tools themselves — they initiate a guided workflow.
| Prompt | Required args | Optional args | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| create-bug-report | project_id, category, summary, description | steps_to_reproduce, expected, actual, environment | Guides through a structured bug report and calls create_issue |
| create-feature-request | project_id, category, summary, description | use_case | Guides through a feature request and calls create_issue |
| summarize-issue | issue_id | – | Fetches an issue via get_issue and returns a concise summary |
| project-status | project_id | – | Lists issues via list_issues and generates a status report grouped by severity |
HTTP mode
For use as a standalone server (e.g. in remote setups):
MANTIS_BASE_URL=... MANTIS_API_KEY=... TRANSPORT=http PORT=3456 node dist/index.js
# With token authentication and explicit bind address (required for Docker/remote):
# MCP_HTTP_TOKEN=secret MANTIS_BASE_URL=... MANTIS_API_KEY=... \
# TRANSPORT=http PORT=3456 MCP_HTTP_HOST=0.0.0.0 node dist/index.js
Health check: GET http://localhost:3456/health (always public, no token required)
Documentation
- Cookbook — tool-oriented recipes with copy-paste-ready parameter examples for all registered tools
- Usage Examples — natural language prompt examples for everyday use cases (no tool names required)
Development
npm run init # First-time setup: install deps, git hooks, typecheck
npm run build # Compile TypeScript → dist/
npm run typecheck # Type check without output
npm run dev # Watch mode for development
npm test # Run tests (vitest)
npm run test:watch # Run tests in watch mode
npm run test:coverage # Coverage report
License
MIT – see LICENSE
Contributing
Contributions welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md. Repository: codeberg.org/dpesch/mantisbt-mcp-server
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