Motion MCP server

Connect Motion 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 Motion MCP server

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

  • Use the create task tool in Motion
  • Use the delete task tool in Motion
  • Use the list users tool in Motion
  • Use the list projects tool in Motion
  • Use the create recurring task tool in Motion
  • Use the delete recurring task tool in Motion

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.

get_current_user

Get Current User

Retrieve the user who owns the connected Motion API key, including their ID, name, and email.

Connect Motion 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 Motion in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Motion 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 Motion tools.

Run Motion through the Metorial gateway

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

  • Give Motion and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Motion 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 Motion

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.

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.

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.

Jira

Create, read, update, and delete issues across projects. Search issues using JQL queries. Manage projects, boards, sprints, and epics for agile workflows. Log work time, add comments and attachments, and transition issues through workflow statuses. Create and manage project versions/releases, issue links, filters, and dashboards. Query users, groups, and permissions.

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.

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.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Motion to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Motion MCP server have?
    The Motion MCP server exposes 22 tools, including Create Task, Delete Task, List Users. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Motion 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 Motion MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Motion and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Motion MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

Connect Motion to production AI agents

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