Connect ChatGPT to your fenbs kanban board

Connect

1. Sign in to fenbs and add a task, so there is something on the kanban board.
2. In ChatGPT on the web, open Settings, then Security and login, and turn on Developer mode.
3. Go to Plugins and select the plus button to create a developer-mode app. Give it a name and description, and the URL below. ChatGPT sends you to fenbs in your browser to sign in and approve what it may do.
4. Review the tools ChatGPT found. The app is listed under Drafts in your app settings.
5. Start a new chat, choose Developer mode from the plus menu, select the fenbs app and ask what is on your kanban board.

https://fenbs.ai/api/mcp

fenbs uses OAuth for MCP, which ChatGPT’s developer mode supports, so nothing is copied or pasted. Which ChatGPT plans have developer mode, and how much of MCP each one gets, is OpenAI’s to change and changes often: its developer mode help article↗ (opens in a new tab) has the current list, and on a company workspace an admin may control it. If you do not have it, the Claude, Claude Code and Cursor routes work the same way.

By default, ChatGPT asks you to confirm before a fenbs tool that can change something, such as adding a task or recording a decision. OpenAI’s custom MCP server guide↗ (opens in a new tab) says ChatGPT respects the readOnlyHint annotation and treats tools without it as write actions, and fenbs marks the tools that only read (the board, its tasks, its AI context) as read-only. Confirming never widens what the assistant can do: it still holds your role and the scopes you ticked.

What it can do once connected

• Read the kanban board: fenbs_list_items with filters by lane, kind or free text, and fenbs_get_item for one task with its comments.
• Add tasks with fenbs_create_item — a Feature, an Enhancement or a Bug, in a lane, with a priority.
• Move and edit with fenbs_update_item: change the lane, the title, the note, the kind or the priority.
• Comment with fenbs_comment, and search across everything it can see with fenbs_search.
• Read your AI context with fenbs_get_context — the notes you keep on the kanban board about how you work — and keep it current with fenbs_add_context_note, fenbs_update_context_note and fenbs_delete_context_note.
• Ask fenbs_whoami first: it answers who the assistant is acting as and what it may do, which is the question to settle before it writes anything.

What it cannot do

Anything you cannot. The assistant acts as you and holds your role on the board, narrowed by the scopes you ticked when you approved it: read, write, comment. If your role cannot move tasks between lanes, neither can the assistant, and it is told so in a sentence it can repeat to you: “You are a Client on Kitchen Refit, which cannot move tasks between lanes.” Revoke its token in Settings and it stops at once; everything it did stays in the history under its name.