S08 E01

This is the companion code for Season 08 Episode 01

Configuration

Name	Description	Location
PlaneAPIKey	The API Key used to access the Plane app	User Secrets
BaseUrl	The base url for the Plane API	appsettings.json
Workspace	The Plane workspace	appsettings.json
ProjectId	The project id of the associated project	appsettings.json

Set Up

1. Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/binarythistle/S08-E01-MCP-Server.git

2. Once cloned, change into the S08-E01-MCP-Server directory

3. Open the project (using VS Code this would be code .)

4. Open the appsettings.json file an update config elements to match your Plane Project details.

5. Obtain your Plane API key (instructions here) and add the key as a user-secret as follows:

dotnet user-secrets set "PlaneAPIKey" "<your key>"

Registering the Server

The server can now be registered with any MCP client app (e.g. VS Code with GitHub Co Pilot) to see it working using MCP Inspector, first ensure that you have NodeJs installed (type node --version to find out if you have it), then type:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector dotnet run

MCP Inspector should be loaded in a webpage, then:

• Click Connect
• Click List Tools
• Select get_all_work_item_statuses
• Click Run Tool

If everything has worked it should bring back a list of standard work items statuses from Plane.