Connect Motion to AI agents

Connect Motion to Claude, Codex, Cursor, or other AI agents for your entire team. Metorial security, governance, observability, and gives your team a unified Magic MCP url to connect.

Supported Tools

create_task

Create Task

Create a new task in a Motion workspace. Supports setting priority, due dates, deadlines, auto-scheduling, project association, labels, and assignee. Motion will automatically schedule the task based on the provided parameters.

delete_task

Delete Task

Permanently delete a task from Motion. This action cannot be undone.

list_users

List Users

List users in a workspace or team. Returns paginated user profiles with name and email. Also retrieves the authenticated user's own profile.

list_projects

List Projects

List projects in Motion with optional workspace filtering. Returns project details including status, custom field values, and timestamps. Use the cursor for pagination.

create_recurring_task

Create Recurring Task

Create a recurring task in Motion that repeats on a configurable schedule. Supports setting frequency, duration, ideal scheduling time, priority, and assignee.

delete_recurring_task

Delete Recurring Task

Permanently delete a recurring task from Motion. This stops future recurrences but does not affect already-created task instances.

get_project

Get Project

Retrieve a single project by its ID. Returns full project details including status, custom field values, and timestamps.

get_task

Get Task

Retrieve a single task by its ID. Returns full task details including scheduling information, assignees, labels, custom field values, and project association.

list_tasks

List Tasks

List tasks from Motion workspaces with optional filtering by workspace, project, assignee, status, label, or name. Returns paginated results. If no workspace is specified, returns tasks from all workspaces.

create_project

Create Project

Create a new project in a Motion workspace. Projects act as containers for tasks and can have their own due dates, descriptions, labels, and priorities.

create_custom_field

Create Custom Field

Create a new custom field in a workspace. Supports types: text, number, url, date, select, multiSelect, person, multiPerson, email, phone, checkbox, and relatedTo. Select fields can include predefined options with colors.

set_custom_field_value

Set Custom Field Value

Set a custom field value on a task or project. Can also remove a custom field value by providing the value ID to remove.

list_custom_fields

List Custom Fields

List all custom fields defined in a workspace. Returns field IDs and types that can be used when setting custom field values on tasks and projects.

list_workspaces

List Workspaces

List all workspaces the authenticated user has access to. Returns workspace details including available labels and statuses. Can also retrieve specific workspaces by their IDs.

list_recurring_tasks

List Recurring Tasks

List all recurring tasks for a given workspace. Returns paginated results with task details, assignees, and scheduling information.

create_comment

Create Comment

Add a comment to a task in Motion. Comments support GitHub Flavored Markdown for rich text formatting.

list_schedules

List Schedules

Retrieve all schedules configured for the authenticated user. Schedules define time blocks (e.g., "Work Hours") that control when Motion's auto-scheduling can place tasks.

delete_custom_field

Delete Custom Field

Permanently delete a custom field from a workspace. This removes the field definition and all its values from tasks and projects.

update_task

Update Task

Update an existing task's properties. Can modify the name, description, due date, duration, priority, status, labels, assignee, project, and auto-scheduling settings. Also supports moving a task to a different workspace (which resets project, status, labels, and assignee) and unassigning a task.

list_comments

List Comments

List all comments on a specific task. Returns paginated results with comment content and creator information.

list_statuses

List Statuses

List all available statuses for a workspace. Shows which statuses are default and which represent resolved/completed states.

More integrations teams use with Motion

Linear

Create, read, update, and delete issues across teams with support for priorities, labels, assignees, due dates, and workflow states. Manage projects that group related issues, and organize work into time-boxed cycles (sprints). Create and manage documents, comments, and file attachments. Search issues using vector similarity or rich filters. Configure teams, workflow states, and labels. Track customers and link them to issues. Subscribe to real-time webhooks for changes to issues, projects, cycles, comments, documents, and more.

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.

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.

Airtable

Create, read, update, and delete records in Airtable bases and tables. Manage base schemas including creating tables and fields. Filter records using formulas, sort by fields, and scope queries to specific views. Upsert records to find, create, or update in a single call. Upload attachments to records, read and write record comments, list accessible bases, and receive real-time base change events through webhooks.

Bitbucket

Manage Git repositories, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines on Bitbucket Cloud. Create, fork, and configure repositories within workspaces and projects. Create, review, approve, merge, and decline pull requests with inline code comments. Browse source code, list commits, and manage branches and tags. Track issues with the built-in issue tracker. Trigger, monitor, and manage Bitbucket Pipelines. List workspace members, configure repository default reviewers and branch restrictions, create and manage repository webhooks, and search code across repositories.

GitLab

Manage GitLab projects, repositories, issues, merge requests, releases, and CI/CD workflows from one provider. Includes pipeline, job, variable, environment, schedule, trigger, runner, deployment, CI lint, and test report tools.

Technical notes for Motion

Create, update, delete, and list tasks with AI-powered auto-scheduling, priorities, deadlines, and assignees. Manage projects within workspaces, create recurring tasks with configurable frequency, and add comments to tasks for collaboration. Define and manage custom fields (text, number, date, select, checkbox, etc.) on tasks and projects. Retrieve user schedules that control when tasks can be auto-scheduled. List workspaces, workspace statuses, and users.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Motion to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. Can Metorial connect Motion to AI agents?
    Yes. Metorial connects AI agents to Motion through a governed integration layer, so teams can use the provider while keeping access controlled and observable.
  2. Metorial is MCP compatible and lets teams expose approved provider tools to MCP-capable agents and clients through a controlled access layer.
  3. Metorial applies policies across users, groups, providers, agents, and individual tools, then records the context around every agent interaction.
  4. Yes. Metorial records provider activity so teams can inspect tool calls, troubleshoot integrations, and give security teams the visibility they need.