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Scrumboy

Scrumboy is an MCP server that adds database tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Self-hosted project management • Customizable boards • Cross-project workload and flow analytics • Calendar/Agenda • Sticky-note wall •… It has 447 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/markrai/scrumboy.

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Install Scrumboy

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scrumboy": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/markrai/scrumboy"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio scrumboy -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/markrai/scrumboy

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scrumboy": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/markrai/scrumboy"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "scrumboy": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/markrai/scrumboy"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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).

About Scrumboy

No .env file, TLS certificates, or encryption key are required to start the app. Scrumboy creates runtime data under ./data by default. The default SQLite database is ./data/app.db, and SQLite may also create app.db-wal and app.db-shm while the server is running.

  • agile
  • kanban
  • project-management
  • scrum
  • go
  • golang
  • pwa
  • sqlite
  • self-hosted
  • ai-integration

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How do I install the Scrumboy MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/markrai/scrumboy 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 Scrumboy free?

The server is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Scrumboy actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 24, 2026. The latest release is v3.40.0, published Oct 23, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.