Canny MCP server

Connect Canny to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the Canny MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the list posts tool in Canny
  • Use the remove user from company tool in Canny
  • Use the delete comment tool in Canny
  • Use the retrieve user tool in Canny
  • Use the create changelog entry tool in Canny
  • Use the create or update user tool in Canny

Supported Tools

list_posts

List Posts

List and search feedback posts with flexible filtering. Filter by board, author, company, tags, status, or search by keyword. Supports pagination and sorting.

remove_user_from_company

Remove User from Company

Remove a user from a company. Their votes will no longer count toward the company’s spend.

delete_comment

Delete Comment

Permanently delete a comment from a feedback post. This action cannot be undone.

retrieve_user

Retrieve User

Retrieve a user's details by their Canny ID, your application's user ID, or email address. Provide exactly one identifier.

create_changelog_entry

Create Changelog Entry

Create a new changelog entry. Entries can be published immediately, scheduled for future publication, or saved as drafts. Supports types (new, improved, fixed), labels, and linking to feedback posts.

create_or_update_user

Create or Update User

Create a new user or update an existing one. If a user with the given userId or email already exists, they will be updated. Users can be associated with companies and have custom fields.

create_post

Create Post

Create a new feedback post on a board. Posts represent individual feedback items or feature requests. You can assign a category, set custom fields, attach images, set an ETA, and assign an owner.

update_company

Update Company

Update a company's details including name, monthly spend (MRR), and custom fields.

delete_post

Delete Post

Permanently delete a feedback post. This action cannot be undone.

list_votes

List Votes

List votes on posts with optional filtering by board, post, user, or company. Returns voter details and timestamps.

retrieve_comment

Retrieve Comment

Retrieve a feedback comment by its Canny ID, including its author, post, images, and reply relationship.

list_companies

List Companies

List companies in your Canny account. Supports searching by name and filtering by segment. Companies track organizational data like member count and monthly spend (MRR).

list_status_changes

List Status Changes

List the history of post status changes across your boards. Shows who changed each status, the old and new values, and when the change occurred.

list_boards

List Boards

List all feedback boards in your Canny account. Boards are top-level containers where users post and vote on feedback for specific topics (e.g., "Feature Requests", "Bug Reports").

list_opportunities

List Opportunities

List sales opportunities synced from Salesforce or HubSpot that are linked to Canny posts. Shows opportunity value, closed/won status, and linked post IDs.

create_comment

Create Comment

Add a comment to a feedback post. Supports threaded replies via parentId, internal-only comments, image attachments, and optional voter notifications.

delete_company

Delete Company

Permanently delete a company from Canny. This action cannot be undone.

manage_tags

Manage Tags

Create, retrieve, or list tags on a board. Tags are labels that can be applied to posts for flexible categorization and filtering.

manage_post_organization

Manage Post Organization

Move a post to a different board, change its category, add/remove tags, or merge posts together. Use the `action` field to specify the operation.

delete_user

Delete User

Permanently delete a user from Canny. This removes the user and all their associated data. This action cannot be undone.

create_vote

Create Vote

Cast a vote on a feedback post on behalf of a user. Votes increase a post's score and indicate user demand.

list_users

List Users

List users in your Canny account with cursor-based pagination. Returns user details including name, email, admin status, and custom fields.

list_changelog_entries

List Changelog Entries

List changelog entries with optional filtering by label or type. Returns published, scheduled, and draft entries with pagination support.

retrieve_board

Retrieve Board

Retrieve details about a specific feedback board by its ID. Returns the board's name, post count, privacy settings, and URL.

enqueue_autopilot_feedback

Enqueue Autopilot Feedback

Submit text content (e.g., call transcripts, conversation logs) to Canny's AI-powered Autopilot for automatic feature request extraction and deduplication. Each request consumes one Autopilot credit.

change_post_status

Change Post Status

Change the status of a feedback post. Optionally notify voters about the status change and include a comment explaining the change.

update_post

Update Post

Update a feedback post's content fields. Can modify the title, details, ETA, custom fields, and images. For status changes, board moves, or category changes, use the dedicated tools.

manage_categories

Manage Categories

Create, retrieve, list, or delete categories on a board. Categories help organize posts within a board and support parent-child nesting.

delete_vote

Delete Vote

Remove a vote from a feedback post. This reduces the post's score.

list_comments

List Comments

List comments with optional filtering by board, post, author, or company. Uses cursor-based pagination.

retrieve_post

Retrieve Post

Retrieve details of a specific feedback post. Lookup by post ID, or by board ID + URL name. Returns the full post including author, board, category, votes, status, tags, and more.

Connect Canny to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable Canny in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Canny MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Canny tools.

Run Canny through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give Canny and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Canny tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

More integrations teams use with Canny

Notion

Create, read, update, and archive pages and databases in a Notion workspace. Manage blocks (paragraphs, lists, headings, embeds, etc.) within pages. Query databases with filters and sorts across rich property types including text, numbers, dates, selects, relations, and formulas. Search across pages and databases by title. Add and read comments on pages and blocks. Upload files to pages. Manage workspace users and retrieve user profiles.

GitHub

Manage repositories, issues, and pull requests. Create and configure branches, star repositories, review code, and merge changes. Automate CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, manage workflow runs, secrets, and artifacts. Track issues with labels, milestones, and assignees. Search across code, repositories, issues, and users. Manage organizations, teams, and memberships. Create and manage projects, gists, packages, deployments, and environments. Access security alerts including code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot alerts. Read and write file contents in repositories. Manage webhooks, notifications, and codespaces.

Salesforce

Manage CRM data including Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, and custom objects. Create, read, update, and delete records. Query data using SOQL and search across objects using SOSL. Perform bulk data operations for large-scale imports, exports, and migrations. Execute composite requests to batch multiple operations in a single API call. Access analytics, reports, and dashboards. Manage files and attachments associated with records. Interact with Chatter feeds, posts, and groups for social collaboration. Manage org metadata including custom objects, fields, layouts, and workflows. Query data using GraphQL for precise data retrieval across related objects.

Apolloio

Search and prospect B2B contacts and companies from a database of over 275 million people and 70 million organizations. Enrich people and company data with emails, phone numbers, and firmographic details. Create and manage contacts, accounts, deals, and tasks. Add contacts to email sequences and manage sequence statuses. Log and search call records. Perform bulk operations for contact creation, account creation, task creation, and data enrichment.

Sharepoint

Manage SharePoint sites, document libraries, lists, and files. Create, read, update, and delete lists and list items with custom columns. Resolve site users to numeric Person/Group LookupId values. Upload, download, move, copy, and version files in document libraries. Search across sites, files, folders, lists, and list items using Microsoft Search. Manage permissions at site, list, and item levels with granular access control. Define and manage content types and site columns. Retrieve site properties and search for sites across Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Outlook

Send, read, reply to, forward, and manage email messages in user mailboxes. Organize messages into folders, apply categories, flags, and importance levels. Manage file and item attachments. Create, update, delete, and respond to calendar events and meetings. Find available meeting times, manage attendees, handle recurrence, and work with shared or delegated calendars. Create, read, update, and delete contacts, organize them into contact folders, and manage contact photos. Manage tasks and task lists via Microsoft To Do, including due dates, reminders, recurrence, and checklist items. Subscribe to webhook notifications for changes to messages, calendar events, and contacts. Support for Focused Inbox, @-mentions, mail tips, send-on-behalf, and send-as capabilities.

Technical notes for Canny

Collect, organize, and prioritize user feedback and feature requests. Create, update, and manage feedback posts on boards with voting, comments, and status tracking. Manage users, companies, categories, tags, and changelog entries. List sales opportunities linked to feedback posts. Use AI-powered Autopilot to extract feature requests from text content.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Canny to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Canny MCP server have?
    The Canny MCP server exposes 31 tools, including List Posts, Remove User from Company, Delete Comment. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Canny exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Canny MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Canny and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Canny MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

Connect Canny to production AI agents

See how Metorial gives your team governed access to Canny, with tracing and security controls built in.