Docs · AI assistants
fenbs is an MCP server. Your AI assistant connects to it the way it connects to any other service — you sign in through a browser and approve. There is no API key to copy, paste or accidentally commit.
claude mcp add --transport http fenbs https://fenbs.ai/api/mcp
Then run /mcp and choose fenbs to sign in. That is the whole setup.
Add fenbs.ai as a connector in your settings. You will be asked to sign in to fenbs and approve the connection.
| fenbs_whoami | Who am I, and my role on every board. Call this first. |
| fenbs_list_boards | Boards you are a member of. |
| fenbs_list_items | Items on a board — filter by lane, kind, assignee or free text. |
| fenbs_get_item | One item and its comments, by ref. |
| fenbs_create_item | Add an item. Needs “Add items”. |
| fenbs_update_item | Change lane, title, note, priority or assignee. |
| fenbs_comment | Comment on an item. |
| fenbs_search | Search across every board you can see. |
An AI assistant holds a role, exactly like a person. When it tries something outside that role the tool returns the permission it lacked, so it can tell you rather than retry blindly.
{
"error": "forbidden",
"needed": "3503",
"role": "Viewer",
"message": "You are a Viewer on Clerkenwell Showroom,
which cannot move tasks between lanes."
}By default an AI assistant acts as you, with your role on each board. To give it a role of its own — narrower than yours, and revocable on its own — connect it from the board’s AI Assistants tab and choose the role there.