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Use Placker in Your AI Chat with MCP

Connect Placker to your AI assistant via MCP to manage boards and cards through conversation.

Written by Reinder Visser

Connect Placker to your AI assistant and manage your boards through conversation. Create cards, search tasks, update due dates and more by chatting with tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini.


What is MCP?

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to external tools and data sources. By adding Placker as an MCP server, your AI assistant can read from and write to your Placker boards on your behalf.


Step-by-Step Setup Guide

Follow these steps to connect Placker to your AI assistant:

Instructions

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1. Add the Placker connector to your AI client:
• Open your AI client and go to the MCP or connectors settings
• Add a new MCP server using this URL: app.statuta.com/mcp/placker

Add a custom connector (in claude)

2. Click Connect and authorise with Placker:
• Your AI client will open a Statuta login page
• Log in using your Placker account
• Click Authorise to approve the connection


​Sign in with Placker

3. Use Placker in your AI chat:
• Go back to your AI client
• The Placker connector is now active
• Ask your AI assistant to take actions in Placker — for example: "Show me all cards due this week on my Marketing board"

Start using placker data in your ai flows


What you can do (updated on 17/09/2026)

Boards and structure (read only)

  • List all your boards and get details for a specific one

  • Get the lists on a board

  • Get all cards on a board, or all cards on a single list

  • Get a board's labels, members, and custom attribute definitions

Cards

  • Create a card on a list, with title, description, members, status, planned/actual start and end dates, custom attributes, external fields, and position

  • Update an existing card: title, description, status (OPEN, INPROGRESS, PENDING, BLOCKED, COMPLETED, CANCELLED, NOSCOPE), planned and actual dates, planned and actual effort (time logged), planned and actual story points, custom attributes, external fields

  • Move a card to another list and reorder it within a list

  • Get full details of a card

  • Search cards by title, board, list, status, assigned members, planned date ranges, custom attribute values, external fields, parent card, mirror group, and whether to include archived (max 100 results per call)

  • Resolve a Placker card URL into the card itself, or just extract the internal card ID from it

Labels and members

  • Add one label or several at once to a card, and remove a label from a card

  • Assign and unassign board members on a card

Checklists

  • Create, rename, and delete checklists on a card

  • Create, update, and delete checklist items

  • Read all checklists on a card

Comments

  • Add a comment to a card

  • Read the comments on a card

Mirroring

  • Mirror a card to another list (card to card)

  • Mirror a card into a checklist item

  • Promote a checklist item into a card

Other

  • Read your user notifications (pending actions and updates), with pagination

  • Check MCP connection status

What it cannot do

  • Dependencies. There is no tool to create, read, or delete card dependencies or predecessor/successor links. Parent/child hierarchy can be filtered on in search, but there is no way to set a parent card.

  • Create labels. You can only apply labels that already exist on the board. Creating, renaming, recoloring, or deleting a label has to be done in the UI.

  • Create or define custom attributes. You can read the definitions and set values on a card, but not add a new attribute to a board.

  • Create, rename, or delete boards and lists. Board and list structure is read only.

  • Delete or archive cards. The closest equivalent is setting the status to CANCELLED or NOSCOPE.

  • Edit or delete comments after they are posted.

  • Attachments and covers. No file upload, no attaching links or images, no cover colors.

  • Due date reminders, checklists due dates, or per-item assignees.

  • Board membership. You can assign existing members to cards, but not invite, remove, or change permissions.

  • Views, dashboards, and reports. No access to Gantt/timeline views, calendar views, filters, swimlanes, saved views, or exports (CSV, PDF, etc.).

  • Automations, rules, or webhooks.

  • Sync configuration. No control over the Trello or Microsoft Planner connection, mapping, or sync settings.

  • Granular time entries. You can set the aggregate actual effort field on a card, but not add, edit, or list individual time log entries.

  • Workspace or billing administration.


What is Statuta?

Statuta is our platform for AI-powered services built around Placker. It lets you connect Placker to AI assistants and create AI-driven workflows that go beyond what Placker offers out of the box.

Access to the Placker MCP on Statuta is included in all Placker plans. No separate subscription needed.


Tips

  • Be specific in your prompts. "Create a card called 'Review proposal' on my Marketing board in the To Do list" works better than a vague request.

  • The connection uses your Placker account credentials. Only you have access to your boards through the chat.

  • Disconnect the integration at any time from your Statuta profile page.

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