Backlog MCP Server

Enables managing a minimal task backlog with operations to create, list, update, and retrieve tasks with different statuses (open, in progress, blocked, done, cancelled). Tasks are stored in a local JSON file with atomic writes.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 4 credentials: API_KEY, CLIENT_SECRET, GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET, JWT_SECRET

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configALLOWED_GITHUB_USERNAMES— npx wrangler secret put # comma-separated: "you,youralt"

🔐 secretAPI_KEY— npx wrangler secret put # your personal API key (for Claude Desktop)

configAPI_URL

configBACKLOG_ACTOR_NAME

configBACKLOG_ACTOR_TYPE

configBACKLOG_DATA_DIR— ~/.backlog # Where to store tasks (default: data/tasks/)

configBACKLOG_DELEGATED_BY

configBACKLOG_TASK_CONTEXT

configBACKLOG_VIEWER_PORT— 3030 # HTTP server port

🔐 secretCLIENT_SECRET

configGITHUB_CLIENT_ID— npx wrangler secret put # GitHub OAuth App client ID

🔐 secretGITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET— npx wrangler secret put

🔐 secretJWT_SECRET— npx wrangler secret put # any strong random string

configLOG_LEVEL

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 3 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: 55158063c972a922443f3a2863b5d53ebaa48c9d

code hash: 65f100494c3963aa6425e5850ed2a856618f029c1a51cd39d4078c91271d4dda

verified: 4/18/2026, 7:00:16 PM

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