Asana Work Management MCP server ​

The Asana Work Management MCP server enables LLMs to interact with Asana for day-to-day task and project management through natural conversation. It provides tools to create, update, find, and read tasks, see what's assigned to you, make comments, create projects, and post project status updates without requiring direct interaction with the Asana interface.

Uses ​

Use the Asana Work Management MCP server to perform the following actions:

• Resolve task, project, user, and team names to their Asana identifiers.
• Retrieve a task's full details, including its direct and inherited project and section memberships.
• See the tasks assigned to you in your My Tasks list.
• Read a task's comment history.
• Search for tasks across the workspace by criteria such as assignee, project, due date, or custom fields.
• Retrieve a project's details, sections, and custom-field schema.
• List the tasks within a project or one of its sections.
• Create tasks and subtasks with a project, section, assignee, and dates.
• Update a task's fields, move it to a different section, or comment on it.
• Create a project, optionally with an associated team, initial sections, and team access, and post status updates to it.

Example prompts ​

Use the following example prompts to invoke Asana Work Management MCP server tools:

• Find the "Website Redesign" project.
• Show me the details for the "Draft press release" task.
• List the tasks in the "In Progress" section of the Website Redesign project.
• Create a task called "Draft press release" in the Website Redesign project, due next Friday.
• Move the "Draft press release" task to the Done section.
• Add a comment to the "Draft press release" task saying it's ready for review.
• Search for incomplete tasks assigned to Jade Chen in the Website Redesign project.
• Create a new project called "Q4 Marketing Campaign" with sections for Backlog, In Progress, and Done.
• Post a status update on the Website Redesign project marking it on track.

Asana Work Management MCP server tools ​

The Asana Work Management MCP server provides the following tools:

Install the Asana Work Management MCP server ​

Complete the following steps to install a prebuilt MCP server to your project:

Asana Work Management connection setup ​

How to use Asana Work Management MCP server tools ​

Refer to the following sections for detailed information on available tools:

find_objects tool ​

The find_objects tool resolves a name to matching Asana objects and their IDs. Your LLM uses this tool first when you refer to a task, project, person, or team by name and its ID is unknown. Your LLM asks you to disambiguate when several results match or when matching results aren't found.

Try asking:

• Find the "Website Redesign" project.
• Look up the user Jade Chen.
• Find the "Engineering" team.

get_task tool ​

The get_task tool returns the full details of a single task, including direct and effective memberships. Your LLM uses this tool when you ask for a specific task's details or subtasks. get_task relies on the connection's effective memberships to understand the project context a subtask inherits.

Try asking:

• Show me the details for the "Draft press release" task.
• What are the subtasks on this task?
• Which projects and sections is this task part of?

get_my_tasks tool ​

The get_my_tasks tool returns the tasks in the authenticated user's My Tasks list. Your LLM uses this tool to track "to-do" items. get_my_tasks returns incomplete tasks assigned to you by default.

Try asking:

• Show me my to-do list.
• What tasks are assigned to me, including completed ones?

get_project tool ​

The get_project tool returns a project's details, sections, and optional details for custom-field schema and task counts. Your LLM uses this tool when you ask about a project's details or sections, or optionally custom-field schema or task counts details.

Try asking:

• Show me the details for the "Website Redesign" project.
• Who owns the Website Redesign project?
• How many tasks are in the Website Redesign project?

list_project_sections tool ​

The list_project_sections tool lists the sections (columns or groups) of a project. Your LLM uses this tool to resolve a section you name to its ID before placing or moving a task, or before scoping a task list to that section.

Try asking:

• What sections does the Website Redesign project have?
• Find the "Done" section in the Website Redesign project.
• List the columns on this project's board.

get_project_custom_fields tool ​

The get_project_custom_fields tool returns the custom-field schema associated with a project. Your LLM uses this tool to resolve a custom field you name to its ID and subtype before setting or filtering by the ID.

Try asking:

• What custom fields does the Website Redesign project have?
• What's the subtype of the Priority field on this project?
• Find the field ID for "Stage" on this project.

list_project_tasks tool ​

The list_project_tasks tool returns the tasks within a project or section. Your LLM uses this tool when you need to see the tasks inside a specific project or section.

Try asking:

• List the tasks in the Website Redesign project.
• Show me what's in the "In Progress" section.
• What tasks are in the Done column of this project?

get_task_comments tool ​

The get_task_comments tool returns the comments on a task and related system activity. Your LLM uses this tool when you need to read a task's discussion, decisions, or feedback.

Try asking:

• What are the comments on the "Draft press release" task?
• Show me the discussion on this task.
• Has anyone left feedback on this task recently?

search_tasks tool ​

The search_tasks tool searches tasks across the workspace using full-text and typed filters. Your LLM uses this tool to find tasks by criteria, such as text, assignee, project or section, due or created dates, and custom fields, when advanced task search is available to you.

Try asking:

• Search for incomplete tasks assigned to Jade Chen in the Website Redesign project.
• Find tasks due before next Friday in the Website Redesign project.
• Search the workspace for tasks mentioning "launch plan".

create_task tool ​

The create_task tool creates a new task or subtask. Your LLM uses this tool to capture a task with a name, description, assignee, project, section, and dates, or to create a subtask by supplying a parent task.

Try asking:

• Create a task called "Draft press release" in the Website Redesign project, due next Friday.
• Add a subtask to this task for reviewing the copy.
• Create a task assigned to Dana Park in the "Backlog" section of the Website Redesign project.

update_task tool ​

The update_task tool updates a task's fields and section placement. Your LLM uses this tool to reassign a task, change task dates, mark a task as complete, edit the task name or description, set a custom-field value, or move a task to another section.

Try asking:

• Move the "Draft press release" task to the Done section.
• Mark this task complete.
• Reassign this task to Jade Chen and push the due date to next week.

add_comment tool ​

The add_comment tool adds a comment to a task. Your LLM uses this tool when you need to post a comment, note, or decision on a task.

Try asking:

• Add a comment to the "Draft press release" task saying it's ready for review.
• Leave a note on this task about the client's feedback.
• Comment on this task that the deadline moved.

create_project tool ​

The create_project tool creates a project and optionally associates a team, seeds sections, and shares the project with a team. Your LLM uses this tool when you need to stand up a new project and confirms with you before creating one visible to the whole workspace.

Try asking:

• Create a new project called "Q4 Marketing Campaign" with sections for Backlog, In Progress, and Done.
• Set up a project for the new initiative and share it with the Engineering team.
• Create a private project called "Internal Audit".

publish_status_update tool ​

The publish_status_update tool posts a status update to a project. Your LLM uses this tool when you need to notify a project's followers with a status update that includes a status type, title, and body.

Try asking:

• Post a status update on the Website Redesign project marking it on track.
• Update the status of this project to "at risk" with a summary of the blockers.
• Mark the Q4 Marketing Campaign project complete with a closing note.

Getting started ​

View and manage your MCP server tools in the Overview page Tools section. Tool management provides the following capabilities:

• Start tools
• Remove tools
• Edit tools
• Add tools
• Edit your LLM-facing MCP server description