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MCP Task Orchestrator

MCP Task Orchestrator is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. It has 210 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm -e DATABASE_PATH -e USE_FLYWAY -e AGENT_CONFIG_DIR -e MCP_TRANSPORT -e MCP_HTTP_PORT -e LOG_LEVEL ghcr.io/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator:3.16.0.

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Install MCP Task Orchestrator

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-task-orchestrator": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "DATABASE_PATH",
        "-e",
        "USE_FLYWAY",
        "-e",
        "AGENT_CONFIG_DIR",
        "-e",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT",
        "-e",
        "MCP_HTTP_PORT",
        "-e",
        "LOG_LEVEL",
        "ghcr.io/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator:3.16.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_PATH": "your-value",
        "USE_FLYWAY": "your-value",
        "AGENT_CONFIG_DIR": "your-value",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "your-value",
        "MCP_HTTP_PORT": "your-value",
        "LOG_LEVEL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env DATABASE_PATH=your-value --env USE_FLYWAY=your-value --env AGENT_CONFIG_DIR=your-value --env MCP_TRANSPORT=your-value --env MCP_HTTP_PORT=your-value --env LOG_LEVEL=your-value --transport stdio mcp-task-orchestrator -- docker run -i --rm -e DATABASE_PATH -e USE_FLYWAY -e AGENT_CONFIG_DIR -e MCP_TRANSPORT -e MCP_HTTP_PORT -e LOG_LEVEL ghcr.io/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator:3.16.0

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-task-orchestrator": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "DATABASE_PATH",
        "-e",
        "USE_FLYWAY",
        "-e",
        "AGENT_CONFIG_DIR",
        "-e",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT",
        "-e",
        "MCP_HTTP_PORT",
        "-e",
        "LOG_LEVEL",
        "ghcr.io/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator:3.16.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_PATH": "your-value",
        "USE_FLYWAY": "your-value",
        "AGENT_CONFIG_DIR": "your-value",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "your-value",
        "MCP_HTTP_PORT": "your-value",
        "LOG_LEVEL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-task-orchestrator": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "DATABASE_PATH",
        "-e",
        "USE_FLYWAY",
        "-e",
        "AGENT_CONFIG_DIR",
        "-e",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT",
        "-e",
        "MCP_HTTP_PORT",
        "-e",
        "LOG_LEVEL",
        "ghcr.io/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator:3.16.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_PATH": "your-value",
        "USE_FLYWAY": "your-value",
        "AGENT_CONFIG_DIR": "your-value",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "your-value",
        "MCP_HTTP_PORT": "your-value",
        "LOG_LEVEL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
DATABASE_PATHNoSQLite database file path (default: data/current-tasks.db)
USE_FLYWAYNoEnable Flyway database migrations (default: true)
AGENT_CONFIG_DIRNoDirectory containing .taskorchestrator/config.yaml for workflow schemas (default: working dir)
MCP_TRANSPORTNoTransport mode: stdio (default) or http
MCP_HTTP_PORTNoHTTP port when using http transport (default: 3001)
LOG_LEVELNoLogging level: DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR (default: INFO)
LOG_FILENoOptional log file path. Unset (default) disables file logging; logs are always JSON on stderr.

About MCP Task Orchestrator

Server-enforced workflow discipline for AI agents. Prompt-based frameworks hope the LLM follows instructions. This one blocks the call if it doesn't.

  • ai-coding-assistant
  • ai-development
  • ai-memory
  • ai-tools
  • claude
  • claude-code
  • claude-desktop
  • context-persistence
  • developer-tools
  • mcp

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How do I install the MCP Task Orchestrator MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm -e DATABASE_PATH -e USE_FLYWAY -e AGENT_CONFIG_DIR -e MCP_TRANSPORT -e MCP_HTTP_PORT -e LOG_LEVEL ghcr.io/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator:3.16.0 to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is MCP Task Orchestrator free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is MCP Task Orchestrator actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 22, 2026. The latest release is v3.16.0, published Oct 2, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.