Plane for project tracking
Plane is an open-source project tracker, and its official MCP server exposes its project API, work items, cycles, modules, and more, to agents. For project tracking it is our fourth pick of four. The clear win is self-hosting: teams that want to run their own tracker rather than depend on a cloud product get a full project API behind an agent, which none of the proprietary siblings offer.
It ranks fourth because the established trackers in this group have larger, more polished ecosystems, and Plane is the newer, open-source option. For a team that values owning the tool and keeping data in its own instance, that tradeoff is the point rather than a drawback.
How Plane fits
The project tools cover the structure an agent works within. list_projects enumerates the workspace's projects, retrieve_project reads one, and create_project, update_project, and delete_project manage them, while archive_project and unarchive_project move projects in and out of the archive. get_project_worklog_summary returns a time-tracking summary, useful when an agent reports on effort. For workspace context, get_me reads the authenticated user, get_workspace_members lists the team, and get_workspace_features with update_workspace_features show and toggle which features are enabled. The tagline confirms the broader API reaches work items, cycles, and modules, so an agent can operate across the whole tracker rather than only its projects.
The limit driving the rank is maturity and ecosystem rather than capability: Plane is open-source and self-hostable, which is its differentiator, but the proprietary siblings have broader adoption and tooling. Linear is the stronger pick when you want a fast, opinionated issue tracker built for engineering, Atlassian (Jira and Confluence) when you live in the Jira ecosystem with its depth and integrations, and Asana for cross-functional work management beyond engineering. Choose Plane when self-hosting an open-source tracker, and keeping project data in your own instance, is the deciding factor.
Tools you would use
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_me | Retrieves the authenticated user's profile. |
| get_workspace_members | Lists the members of the workspace. |
| get_workspace_features | Lists which workspace features are enabled. |
| update_workspace_features | Enables or disables workspace features. |
| list_projects | Lists the projects in the workspace. |
| create_project | Creates a new project. |
| retrieve_project | Retrieves the details of a project. |
| update_project | Updates an existing project. |
| delete_project | Deletes a project. |
| archive_project | Archives a project. |
FAQ
- What makes Plane's server worth picking over the established trackers?
- Self-hosting. Plane is open-source and self-hostable, so a team can run its own tracker and keep project data in its own instance while still giving an agent the full project API. The proprietary siblings are cloud products.
- Which Plane tools manage projects and report on them?
- list_projects, retrieve_project, create_project, update_project, and delete_project manage projects, archive_project and unarchive_project handle archiving, and get_project_worklog_summary returns a time-tracking summary. Workspace context comes from get_me, get_workspace_members, and the workspace-features tools.