Shrimp Task Manager

Name: Shrimp Task Manager
Author: cjo4m06

cjo4m06

Task manager for coding agents that turns natural language into structured dev tasks with dependency tracking and reflection.

Setup

Choose your client, copy the config, then fill in any required environment variables.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

claude mcp add shrimp-task-manager --env DATA_DIR='<DATA_DIR>' --env ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN='<ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN>' --env MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND='<MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND>' --env MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK='<MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK>' -- npx mcp-shrimp-task-manager

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.shrimp-task-manager]
command = "npx"
args = ["mcp-shrimp-task-manager"]
env = { DATA_DIR = "<DATA_DIR>", ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN = "<ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN>", MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND = "<MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND>", MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK = "<MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK>" }

# codex mcp add shrimp-task-manager --env DATA_DIR='<DATA_DIR>' --env ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN='<ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN>' --env MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND='<MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND>' --env MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK='<MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK>' -- npx mcp-shrimp-task-manager

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shrimp-task-manager": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-shrimp-task-manager"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATA_DIR": "<DATA_DIR>",
        "ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN": "<ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN>",
        "MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND": "<MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND>",
        "MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK": "<MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "shrimp-task-manager": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-shrimp-task-manager"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATA_DIR": "<DATA_DIR>",
        "ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN": "<ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN>",
        "MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND": "<MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND>",
        "MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK": "<MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK>"
      }
    }
  }
}

~/.gemini/settings.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shrimp-task-manager": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-shrimp-task-manager"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATA_DIR": "<DATA_DIR>",
        "ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN": "<ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN>",
        "MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND": "<MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND>",
        "MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK": "<MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK>"
      }
    }
  }
}

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shrimp-task-manager": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-shrimp-task-manager"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATA_DIR": "<DATA_DIR>",
        "ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN": "<ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN>",
        "MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND": "<MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND>",
        "MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK": "<MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.trae/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shrimp-task-manager": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-shrimp-task-manager"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATA_DIR": "<DATA_DIR>",
        "ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN": "<ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN>",
        "MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND": "<MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND>",
        "MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK": "<MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

DATA_DIR
ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN
MCP_PROMPT_EXECUTE_TASK_APPEND
MCP_PROMPT_PLAN_TASK

Replace the placeholders with your own credentials and keep them out of version control.

Setup

Environment variables

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