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Asana MCP connector

The Asana connector brings your tasks, subtasks, comments, tags, and workspaces into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client, so each person can create, update, and follow up on Asana work inside their own access.

  • How it connects. OAuth or API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect Asana to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Asana once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Asana.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Approve it in Asana. Asana's own window opens. Whoever approves it decides what this connection can reach.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

asana
Asana
Airtable
Autotask
Basecamp
ClickUp
ConnectWise PSA
2

In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

Asana MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Asana MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Asana MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect Asana to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

Use cases

What teams do with Asana through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • Operations

    Turn a meeting into Asana tasks

    Paste your notes after a planning call and have the tasks created in the right project, each with an assignee, a due date, and the follow-ups added as subtasks.

  • Marketing

    Catch a campaign task up after a review

    Ask for the launch task to be updated with the new date, a comment summarizing what changed, and a tag so the rest of the team can spot it in their lists.

  • Product

    Find every open task carrying a tag

    Ask which tasks tagged for the next release are still open, who owns them, and what the latest comment on each one says, without opening every board.

  • Support

    Log a customer escalation as a task

    Describe the problem a customer reported and have a task created for the engineering team, with the reproduction steps written up as subtasks and the ticket details in a comment.

  • People

    Add a new hire to the right workspace

    On someone's first day, add them to the Asana workspace and duplicate the onboarding checklist so their first-week tasks are waiting for them.

  • Project management

    Duplicate a project template for the next client

    Duplicate the standard kickoff task and its subtasks for a new engagement, then set owners and dates in the same request rather than copying items one by one.

Try asking

  • “List my overdue tasks in the Q3 Launch project.”
  • “Which Asana tags are used most this quarter?”
  • “Show tasks assigned to me across both workspaces.”

See all 190 Asana tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Asana

All three can connect Asana to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for Asana, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over Asana tools Allow or restrict single Asana tools, per role or user. App and action restrictions on the account. Role permissions, down to the action.
Record of calls One audit entry per Asana call. A History tab of tool calls. A log of every tool call.
Single sign-on SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. SAML on Enterprise. SAML and OIDC on Enterprise.
Price $15 per user per month. 2 tasks per successful call. Billed per tool call.

Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.

Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.

AI tools

Asana tools for your AI agents

190 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Asana, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Asana gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Asana account.

The agent

Ask about Asana tasks, get real answers.

Plain language questions read live Asana tasks, projects, tags and workspaces.

  • tasks
  • projects
  • tags
  • workspaces

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

List my overdue tasks in the Q3 Launch project.

Which Asana tags are used most this quarter?

Show tasks assigned to me across both workspaces.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Asana here.

One org MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared API key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emily Carter

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

190 Asana tools ready without custom code.

Tasks, projects, tags, users and workspaces, with every method already listed.

  • List all Asana tags
  • Get single Asana tag by ID
  • Create a Asana tag
  • Update a Asana tag by ID
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Asana tags List Get all tags from your Asana account. Returns compact tag objects including gid, resource_type, and name fields.
Get single Asana tag by ID Get Get a tag by id in Asana. Returns fields gid (unique identifier), resource_type, name, color, notes, created_at, followers (array of users following the tag), workspace, and permalink_url.
Create a Asana tag Create Create a new tag in a workspace or organization in Asana. Returns the full record of the newly created tag including gid, resource_type, name, color, notes, created_at, followers, workspace, and permalink_url.
Update a Asana tag by ID Update Update a tag by id in Asana. Returns the complete updated tag record including gid, resource_type, name, color, notes, created_at, followers, workspace, and permalink_url.
Delete a Asana tag by ID Delete Delete a specific tag by id in Asana. Returns an empty data object on successful deletion.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Asana toolbox.

Curate one toolbox per team and scope it to the work they own.

  • Engineering
  • Support
  • Product
  • Marketing
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Engineering toolbox

Asana · tasks and projects

Asana starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Support toolbox

Asana · tickets and tags

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Product toolbox

Asana · roadmap projects

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Marketing toolbox

Asana · campaign tasks

Asana starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Operations toolbox

Asana · workspaces and users

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Design toolbox

Asana · review tasks

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates use Asana without seeing a token.

See who connected each Asana account and which teams and members share it.

  • Engineering
  • Support EMEA
  • Product
  • Marketing
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
AS

Asana (Engineering)

Connected by Emily Carter

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
AS

Asana (Support EMEA)

Connected by Jake Morgan

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
AS

Asana (Product)

Connected by Megan Brooks

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
AS

Asana (Marketing)

Connected by Tyler Reed

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
AS

Asana (Operations)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

Personal • Active Not shared
AS

Asana (Design)

Connected by Ashley Parker

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every Asana call is on the record.

When, who, what happened, type and resource for each task and project change.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emily Carter

emily.carter@northwind.io

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

Jake Morgan

jake.morgan@northwind.io

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

M

Megan Brooks

megan.brooks@northwind.io

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

T

Tyler Reed

tyler.reed@northwind.io

Asana Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

R

Ryan Hayes

ryan.hayes@northwind.io

Asana Tasks Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

A

Ashley Parker

ashley.parker@northwind.io

Asana Tasks List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

A schedule fires and the Asana digest ships.

Fetch tasks, group them, draft a digest, get approval, post back to Asana.

Asana digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch tasks

    Asana

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    Asana

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Asana task counts computed, not requested.

Four metrics, 14 days of tasks created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.

Asana health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the tasks collection

Live

Tasks

1,284 ↓ 12%

Projects

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Tasks created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

Engineering 34%

Support EMEA 27%

Product 21%

Marketing 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Asana to Claude?

Connect Asana in Elaichi first: you either sign in to Asana in your browser and allow access, or paste an Asana personal access token, and there is no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in as yourself when Claude asks, and your Asana tasks, comments, and tags are available in the conversation.

Does Asana work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once Asana is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Asana once and every client you use picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Asana data?

With Asana connected, an agent can list and read your tasks, create new tasks and subtasks, update assignees, due dates, and descriptions, duplicate a task with its subtasks, and add or read the comments on a task. It can also manage tags, look up people in your workspace, and add or remove members from a workspace. Because Asana has a large set of actions, short concrete asks like "create a task in the launch project due Friday" work better than a long paragraph.

Does connecting Asana give the AI everything in my workspace?

No. When Asana is connected through Elaichi, every request runs as the person who signed in, so the agent only sees the Asana projects, tasks, and workspaces that person can already see. Elaichi can narrow that further with restrictions, but it can never widen it beyond what the person's own Asana account allows.

Can my team share one Asana connection?

Yes. One person connects Asana in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles an Asana token or password. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so every task created or comment added is recorded under their own name in the audit log.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Asana?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading and creating Asana tasks while blocking deletion, or blocking changes to workspaces and their members. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other client at all, so no prompt can reach it.

What happens to an Asana connection when someone leaves?

When a person is offboarded in Elaichi, their access to Asana through every client ends at once. If they had shared their Asana connection with a team, it keeps working for everyone else on that team. Disconnecting Asana once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client together.

Does the Asana MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. Asana is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Asana?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Asana. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Asana call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for Asana?

Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Asana: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

Put Asana in front of your team

14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.

Works with
Claude ChatGPT Cursor and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
When the trial ends
Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.