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Name: MantisBT MCP Server
Author: dpesch

MantisBT MCP server – manage issues, notes, files, tags, and relationships. With semantic search.

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~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dpesch-mantisbt-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dpesch/mantisbt-mcp-server@1.14.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MANTIS_BASE_URL": "",
        "MANTIS_API_KEY": "YOUR_MANTIS_API_KEY",
        "MANTIS_USE_INDEX_PHP": "false",
        "MANTIS_CACHE_DIR": "",
        "MANTIS_CACHE_TTL": "3600",
        "TRANSPORT": "stdio",
        "PORT": "3000",
        "MCP_HTTP_HOST": "127.0.0.1",
        "MCP_HTTP_TOKEN": "YOUR_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN",
        "MANTIS_SEARCH_ENABLED": "false",
        "MANTIS_SEARCH_BACKEND": "vectra",
        "MANTIS_SEARCH_DIR": "",
        "MANTIS_SEARCH_MODEL": "Xenova/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2",
        "MANTIS_SEARCH_THREADS": "1",
        "MANTIS_UPLOAD_DIR": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

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Environment

Name	Required	Notes
MANTIS_BASE_URL	Yes	Base URL of the MantisBT REST API, e.g. https://your-mantis.example.com/api/rest
MANTIS_API_KEY	Yes	MantisBT API key (Profile → API Tokens in MantisBT) Secret.
MANTIS_USE_INDEX_PHP	No	Use /api/rest/index.php/ for MantisBT installations without URL rewriting. Detected automatically when MANTIS_BASE_URL ends with /api/rest/index.php
MANTIS_CACHE_DIR	No	Directory for the metadata cache. Defaults to ~/.cache/mantisbt-mcp
MANTIS_CACHE_TTL	No	Metadata cache TTL in seconds. Default: 3600 (1 hour)
TRANSPORT	No	Transport mode. 'stdio' for local use (default), 'http' for remote/team deployments
PORT	No	HTTP port when TRANSPORT=http. Default: 3000
MCP_HTTP_HOST	No	Bind address when TRANSPORT=http. Default: 127.0.0.1 (local only). Use 0.0.0.0 for Docker/remote.
MCP_HTTP_TOKEN	No	Optional Bearer token to protect the /mcp endpoint when TRANSPORT=http Secret.
MANTIS_SEARCH_ENABLED	No	Enable offline semantic search (requires ~80 MB model download on first use)
MANTIS_SEARCH_BACKEND	No	Vector store backend for semantic search. 'vectra' (default, pure JS) or 'sqlite-vec' (faster for >10k issues)
MANTIS_SEARCH_DIR	No	Directory for the semantic search index. Defaults to ~/.cache/mantisbt-mcp/search
MANTIS_SEARCH_MODEL	No	Hugging Face model for embeddings. Default: Xenova/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
MANTIS_SEARCH_THREADS	No	ONNX inference threads for the embedding model. Default: 1
MANTIS_UPLOAD_DIR	No	If set, restricts file uploads to this directory (path traversal protection)

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