Asana MCP Server
Asana MCP server enabling AI agents to interact with Asana's work management platform — managing tasks, projects, portfolios, and teams; querying work status and timelines; creating and updating work items; and integrating Asana's project tracking into agent-driven work management automation workflows.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
HTTPS enforced. PAT with user-level access. OAuth 2.0 with scopes. SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR. Community MCP server.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
An agent needs to create, query, or manage Asana tasks and projects for team work management automation.
Avoid When
You're using ClickUp, Monday.com, Jira, or another project management platform.
Use Cases
- • Creating and updating tasks from project management agents
- • Querying project status and task completion from reporting agents
- • Managing team workloads and assignments from resource planning agents
- • Generating project timelines and milestone status from planning agents
- • Tracking dependencies between tasks from dependency management agents
- • Syncing Asana tasks with other tools from integration agents
Not For
- • Teams using ClickUp, Monday.com, or Jira as primary project management tool
- • Simple personal task management (Todoist or Notion better fit)
- • Teams without Asana subscription
Interface
Authentication
Asana personal access tokens (PAT) for developer use — full user-level access. OAuth 2.0 with scopes for user-facing apps. PAT does not expire but inherits user permissions.
Pricing
Generous free tier for individuals. API access included across all tiers. Advanced features (portfolios, goals, workload) require paid plans. MCP server is community open source.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ Personal access token has full user-level access — use service account for production
- ⚠ Workspace GID required for most operations — agents must know workspace context
- ⚠ Task GIDs are immutable but task names are not unique — always use GIDs for references
- ⚠ Asana API uses opt_fields parameter to control field inclusion — no guaranteed field in response without it
- ⚠ Community MCP server — coverage may be incomplete for advanced features (portfolios, goals)
- ⚠ Rate limit of 1500 req/min is generous but shared across the access token
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.