Connects Claude to MantisBT issue tracking instances, letting you create and update bugs, add notes and attachments, manage tags, and link related issues without leaving your conversation. The semantic search capability means you can find issues by describing problems in natural language rather than remembering exact ticket numbers or keywords. Reach for this when you're triaging bugs, documenting issues during development sessions, or need to query your bug tracker as part of a larger workflow. Works over stdio, so you'll need access to a MantisBT instance with API credentials to get started.
MANTIS_BASE_URL*Base URL of the MantisBT REST API, e.g. https://your-mantis.example.com/api/rest
MANTIS_API_KEY*secretMantisBT API key (Profile → API Tokens in MantisBT)
MANTIS_CACHE_DIRDirectory for the metadata cache. Defaults to ~/.cache/mantisbt-mcp
MANTIS_CACHE_TTLdefault: 3600Metadata cache TTL in seconds. Default: 3600 (1 hour)
TRANSPORTdefault: stdioTransport mode. 'stdio' for local use (default), 'http' for remote/team deployments
PORTdefault: 3000HTTP port when TRANSPORT=http. Default: 3000
MCP_HTTP_HOSTdefault: 127.0.0.1Bind address when TRANSPORT=http. Default: 127.0.0.1 (local only). Use 0.0.0.0 for Docker/remote.
MCP_HTTP_TOKENsecretOptional Bearer token to protect the /mcp endpoint when TRANSPORT=http
MANTIS_SEARCH_ENABLEDdefault: falseEnable offline semantic search (requires ~80 MB model download on first use)
MANTIS_SEARCH_BACKENDdefault: vectraVector store backend for semantic search. 'vectra' (default, pure JS) or 'sqlite-vec' (faster for >10k issues)
MANTIS_SEARCH_DIRDirectory for the semantic search index. Defaults to ~/.cache/mantisbt-mcp/search
MANTIS_SEARCH_MODELdefault: Xenova/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2Hugging Face model for embeddings. Default: Xenova/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
MANTIS_SEARCH_THREADSdefault: 1ONNX inference threads for the embedding model. Default: 1
MANTIS_UPLOAD_DIRIf set, restricts file uploads to this directory (path traversal protection)
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