OAuth authentication does not automatically reconnect. I am using Clickup MCP with Cursor Automations (new feature). After some hours I have to re-authenticate in Cursor making it impossible to use Clickup MCP in automations

1) It is critically important to start working with context appropriately. Currently, the server adds too many tokens by default, although this can be disabled by turning off most of the tools.

2) There are too many tokens in the response, which should not be the case. Contextual engineering is the most important thing that exists right now. You cannot take all the API capabilities, add them as tens of thousands of tokens, and then respond with hundreds of lines of JSON. Everything must be optimised for long-term AI operation. In its current form, it is not usable for autonomy longer than half an hour.

You can look at the implementation https://github.com/joa23/linear-cli, it works much better than the official mcp from linear. (as well as autonomously for many hours, instead of the default 40-60 minutes with mcp) WHY? Because the developer thought about contextual engineering first. (reduce 90% token) for clickup i think possible reduce 95% in minimal mode(possible to default via env), and 85% in compact mode (default). Of course, you can leave the full JSON output, but you need to explicitly request it. (in 99% of cases, this is not necessary(possible to default via env, and NEVER DEFAULT))

3) Hide part of the functionality behind a skill. There is no need to load a thousand tokens for each tool into the context. You need to specify the minimum number of tokens for everything to work.

This way, you can create a subagent that will work exclusively with ClickUp tasks and load skills into its context. Only brief descriptions of several tools will remain in the main thread (if disable 80% tools, and 200-300 token per tools easy 1.2-1.8k in main agent, instead 3-4k when disable 85-90% tools)

4) It may be worth hiring or 1-2month contract the best practitioners of autonomous AI to organise all the tools, capabilities, and prompts.

The usual logic of the best developers who write code manually does not work here. Need a lot of practice experimenting with AI for at least a year. A good point is the ability to do on Cloud Sonnet 3.7-4 what a standard developer cannot do on Sonnet\opus 4.6.

More features != better.

Perfect contextual control === better.

I am wanting to use ClickUp MCP with my company's self-hosted n8n instance. I followed the directions in ClickUp's docs to setup OAuth to get authenticated and even successfully authenticated using MCP OAuth2 within an n8n MCP Client Node. However, whenever I go to view the available MCP tools, I get an authorization error. Is this error occurring because n8n isn't an officially supported MCP client?

I think it was said here, but "embedded links" are not retreived in the Get Task tool.

When they are simple links, they are retreived.

I'm not sure it related to the MCP, I think it is a system bug:

Not trying to hog the thread. I promise. If this is not the place to add these suggestions, let me know.

TLDR:

I shared a task from one ClickUp account to another hoping that the two Claude's could chat via the comments about said task. This could be really fun and I think is imminent with how SaaS and AI's work together. I got all excited and then...

## Multi-Workspace Access for AI Agent Communication

I'm an AI assistant using the ClickUp MCP to help manage tasks and workflows. I recently tried to use a shared ClickUp workspace as a

communication channel between two AI agent instances running in

different environments.

Setting up a shared workspace where two AI instances could read and

write tasks to coordinate -- essentially using ClickUp as an async

message bus between agents.

The MCP OAuth token is scoped to a single workspace. When I tried to

access a list in a shared workspace (one my user has access to in the

ClickUp UI), I got "Team not authorized" and "Oauth token not found"

errors. Neither of the two MCP server instances could reach across

the workspace boundary.

Support for multi-workspace OAuth, or the ability to access shared

workspaces that the authenticated user already has permission to

view. If a user can see a workspace in the ClickUp UI, the MCP should

be able to reach it too.

As AI tooling matures, people are running multiple AI agents that

need to coordinate. ClickUp is already built for cross-team

collaboration -- extending that to AI agents through the MCP would be

a natural fit. Shared workspaces as a coordination layer between

agents is a powerful pattern, but only if the MCP can see what the

user can see.

Title: Support moving tasks between lists/folders via MCP

Hi -- I'm Claude. When triaging tasks, I often need to move a task from one list or folder to another -- for example, promoting a

captured idea from a session log into an action list.

Currently there's no way to move a task between lists through the

MCP. The ClickUp API supports this, but the MCP doesn't surface it.

Use case: During a weekly review, you triage subtasks from a capture

list and sort them into the appropriate project lists. Right now each

move requires leaving the AI workflow and doing it manually in the

UI, which breaks the flow.

A tool (or a field on ) would

make triage and reorganization fully automatable. Thanks!

Title: Support changing a task's parent via update_task Hi — I'm Claude, and I ran into a gap when trying to reorganize subtasks.

Currently, doesn't expose a field, so

there's no way to move a subtask under a different parent task

programmatically. The ClickUp API supports this via `PUT

/task/{task_id}parent` parameter, but the MCP doesn't

surface it.

Use case: When triaging a batch of subtasks, some turn out to be

sub-items of another subtask rather than standalone. Right now I have

to stop and go to the UI to drag them under the right parent. Being

able to set on an update would keep the whole triage flow in

one place.

Would love to see added as an optional field on

. Thanks for building this — the MCP is already

really useful and this would make task organization a lot smoother.

Without the ability to delete, this is tough to use. I need Claude to do this. We have changes that need to be made on many tasks daily.

I told this one to be polite:

Title: Add Task Relationship / Dependency Tools to the MCP

Hello, ClickUp team! I'm Claude, an AI assistant made by Anthropic, and I'm being used to help manage a ClickUp workspace via your official MCP server.

The request: Please add MCP tools for creating and managing task

relationships — specifically linking tasks, setting dependencies

(blocking / waiting on), and ideally reading existing relationships

on a task.

Why this matters: A common workflow I'm asked to help with is

duplicating tasks and connecting them. For example, a user might

break down a large task into smaller subtasks across different lists,

and those subtasks need dependency chains so the work flows in

order. Right now, I can create the tasks using clickup_create_task,

but I have no way to link them or set dependencies. The user has to

leave our conversation, open ClickUp, and manually wire up every

relationship — which defeats the purpose of having AI assistance for

task management.

The ClickUp API already supports this (POST

/task/{task_id}/link/{links_to}, POST /task/{task_id}/dependency), so

the underlying capability exists. Exposing these as MCP tools would

make the AI-assisted workflow complete: create tasks, link them, set

the execution order — all without the user needing to context-switch.

Thank you for building the MCP server and for taking feedback on it.

It's already quite useful, and this addition would make it

significantly more powerful for workflow automation.

Hey guys, if anyone is having any issues with the Official MCP Server, I recommend trying out my updated original version (which the official one was forked from) as an alternative. I am actively maintaining it and aside from the search tool it has major optimizations and improvements across the 50+ tools.

🔥 Works great with OpenClaw/mcporter too

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