mcp-habitica 0.2.1

MCP server for Habitica task and tag management

mcp-habitica

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Habitica - enabling Claude to manage your tasks and tags.

Features

This MCP server provides tools for managing Habitica tasks and tags:

Task Operations

• get_tasks - Get all tasks or filter by type (habits, dailys, todos, rewards)
• get_task - Get a specific task by ID
• create_task - Create a new task with title, notes, tags, and priority
• update_task - Update an existing task
• delete_task - Delete a task
• score_task - Mark a task as complete or failed

Tag Operations

• get_tags - Get all tags
• get_tag - Get a specific tag by ID
• create_tag - Create a new tag
• update_tag - Update a tag name
• delete_tag - Delete a tag

Installation

Using uv (recommended)

# Install uv if you haven't already
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Install the package
uvx mcp-habitica

Using pip

pip install mcp-habitica

Configuration

1. Get Your Habitica API Credentials

1. Log in to Habitica
2. Go to Settings > Site Data
3. Copy your User ID and API Token

2. Configure Environment Variables

Set the following environment variables:

export HABITICA_USER_ID="your-user-id"
export HABITICA_API_TOKEN="your-api-token"

3. Configure Claude Desktop

Add this to your Claude Desktop configuration file:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "habitica": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["mcp-habitica"],
      "env": {
        "HABITICA_USER_ID": "your-user-id",
        "HABITICA_API_TOKEN": "your-api-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

to run locally

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-habitica": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "<repo-folder>/mcp-habitica",
        "run",
        "mcp-habitica"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HABITICA_USER_ID": "your-user-id",
        "HABITICA_API_TOKEN": "your-api-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Usage Examples

Once configured, you can ask Claude to manage your Habitica tasks:

• "Show me all my todos"
• "Create a todo: Finish the project report"
• "Mark task [task-id] as complete"
• "Create a tag called 'work'"
• "Show all my tags"

API Reference

For detailed API documentation, visit the Habitica API Documentation.

Task Types

• habit - Habits (positive/negative)
• daily - Daily tasks
• todo - To-dos
• reward - Rewards

Task Priority Levels

• 0.1 - Trivial
• 1.0 - Easy (default)
• 1.5 - Medium
• 2.0 - Hard

Development

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/mcp-habitica.git
cd mcp-habitica

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run tests (when available)
uv run pytest

Project Structure

mcp-habitica/
├── src/
│   └── mcp_habitica/
│       ├── __init__.py
│       ├── habitica_client.py  # Habitica API client
│       └── server.py            # MCP server implementation
├── pyproject.toml
├── README.md
└── LICENSE

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Built with the Model Context Protocol SDK
• Inspired by mcp-obsidian
• Uses the Habitica API