Connect Gemini CLI to your fenbs board

Gemini CLI reads MCP servers from its settings file. Add fenbs and Gemini can read the board, file bugs and move tasks from the terminal, under your role, signed by name.

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  1. Open Gemini CLI’s settings file (~/.gemini/settings.json, or the project’s .gemini/settings.json).
  2. Add fenbs under mcpServers with the URL below.
  3. Start Gemini CLI and run /mcp. A browser opens on fenbs; sign in, tick what it may do, approve.
  4. Ask what is on your board.
settings.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fenbs": {
      "httpUrl": "https://fenbs.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

If the client cannot open a browser, or only speaks stdio, use the fenbs-mcp bridge with a token from Settings, “Connect an AI assistant”: FENBS_TOKEN=… npx fenbs-mcp. It forwards to the same endpoint and the token holds the same role.

What it can do once connected

  • Read the 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 and add to it with fenbs_add_context_note.
  • Ask fenbs_whoami first: it answers who the assistant is acting as and what it may do.

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: read, write, comment. A refusal is a sentence it can repeat to you. Revoke its token in Settings and it stops at once; everything it did stays in the history under its name.

Questions people ask.

Which key does Gemini CLI use for a remote server?

At the time of writing an HTTP server is configured with `httpUrl`. If your version names it differently, its `/mcp` help says so; the URL is the same.

Is the assistant’s access separate from mine?

It is a separate token, listed by name under Settings, and revoking it does not touch your own sign-in. But it acts as you: it inherits your role on the board, narrowed by the scopes you ticked. It can never do something you could not.

Does connecting an assistant cost extra?

No. AI assistants are free on every plan, including the free personal board, and you can connect as many as you like.

Start with one thing.

Your own board is free. AI assistants cost nothing extra on any plan.