How to connect Asana to Codex

1. 1. Enable Asana in Metorial

   In your Metorial portal, enable the Asana MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.

2. 2. Add the server and sign in

   The Codex CLI, IDE extension and ChatGPT desktop app share this config.

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   codex mcp add metorial --url <your-magic-mcp-url>
   codex mcp login metorial

3. 3. Check the connection

   Type /mcp in Codex to see Metorial and its Asana tools.

• Get Project: Retrieve full details for a project including members, followers, custom fields, and settings.
• List Workspaces: List all workspaces accessible to the authenticated user.
• List Projects: List projects in a workspace, optionally filtered by team or archived status.
• Update Project: Update an existing project's name, notes, dates, color, layout, archived status, or privacy setting.
• Update Task: Update an existing task's properties.
• List Subtasks: List all subtasks of a given task.
• List Goals: List goals in a workspace, team, or portfolio.
• List Comments: List stories (comments and activity) on a task.
• Search Tasks: Search for tasks in a workspace using various filters like text, assignee, projects, tags, completion status, and date ranges.
• Create Section: Create a new section in a project.
• Get Goal: Get full details for a goal including its metric, notes, and followers.
• Get User: Get details for a specific user by their GID, or use "me" to get the authenticated user's profile.
• Create Tag: Create a new tag in a workspace.
• List Tags: List all tags in a workspace.
• List Tasks: List tasks filtered by exactly one of projectId, sectionId, or assigneeId (with workspaceId).
• And 20 more on the Asana MCP server page.

• Limit which Asana tools Codex sees with enabled_tools and disabled_tools on the metorial server in config.toml.
• Set default_tools_approval_mode to auto, prompt, writes or approve. writes prompts only for tools that are not marked read-only.
• Type /mcp in the composer to see the connected servers.
• Override the approval behavior for a single Asana tool with tools.<tool>.approval_mode.

Metorial is listed but tools are missing

Codex can connect without credentials and then see nothing. Run codex mcp login metorial to complete the OAuth sign-in.

Metorial times out at startup

Codex waits 10 seconds by default. Raise startup_timeout_sec under [mcp_servers.metorial] in ~/.codex/config.toml.

Long tool calls fail after a minute

The default tool timeout is 60 seconds. Raise tool_timeout_sec for the metorial server in config.toml.

Based on the Codex MCP documentation.