ClickUp Is Live in Cogny: Your Agent Reads and Runs Your Task Lists
ClickUp is now a live MCP integration in Cogny. Connect it with a personal API token, and your agent can read your workspaces, spaces, folders, lists and tasks — and act in them.
Cogny already lets your agent plan and ship marketing work from its own tickets. ClickUp bridges that to the project tracker your team already runs, so the analysis, the ad changes and the follow-ups can land as tasks in the system the rest of the company looks at.
The ClickUp connector uses a personal API token you generate yourself (Settings → Apps → API Token → Generate). It's sent as the raw Authorization header — no "Bearer" prefix — and only to api.clickup.com. Like every Cogny integration, the token is stored encrypted and scoped to your workspace.
What you can do with it
| Tool | What your agent can do |
|---|---|
list_workspaces, list_spaces, list_folders, list_lists | Navigate the workspace hierarchy, from the workspaces your token can see down to the lists inside folders and spaces |
list_tasks, list_workspace_tasks | Read the tasks on a list, or filter across every list of a workspace at once by status, assignee, tag or due date |
get_task | One task, with its status, assignees, tags, dates and custom fields |
list_task_comments | The comments on a task |
list_custom_fields | The custom fields available on a list, so a new task can be created with the right ones |
create_task, update_task | Open new tasks and change their name, description, status, priority, due date or assignees |
create_task_comment | Comment on a task |
add_task_tag, remove_task_tag | Add and remove tags on a task |
Tasks are paginated 100 per page, and the agent pages through them on its own.
Some things to ask:
- "List open tasks in the content calendar list with a due date this week, grouped by assignee."
- "Create a task in Launch → To Do called
Q1 landing page refresh, assigned to me, due Friday, taggedmarketing." - "What's in progress across every list in the Product workspace, and which tasks are overdue?"
- "Comment on task 123 with a summary of the last week's ad performance."
How to connect it
- In ClickUp, open Settings → Apps.
- Under the API Token section, click Generate and copy the token (it starts with
pk_). - In Cogny, open Settings → Integrations, click Connect on ClickUp and paste the token.
The token acts as the ClickUp user who generated it and never expires, but it only reaches the workspaces that user is a member of. Disconnect in Cogny, or delete the token in ClickUp, at any time.
What the write tools change
- Creating and updating tasks changes your ClickUp workspace the same way doing it in the app does — a new task appears in the list, an edited task's status or assignee changes for everyone who sees the list. Assigning people, moving status and commenting can each notify the task's assignees and watchers at ClickUp, so a task is a message to people, not just a note.
- Creating a task (with assignees), updating a task (assignee or status changes) and commenting each only happen when you pass
confirm=true, and nothing is sent otherwise. - Removing a tag detaches it from the task; you can re-add it later with
add_task_tag.
In the Cogny app, write tools ask first by default, so a person approves each one. When your own AI client calls a tool over MCP, your client is the approval step, so keep write tools set to ask every time there. Nothing deletes or permanently removes a task.
What it does not cover yet
There is no task deletion, no checklists or sub-tasks, no time tracking, and no creating folders or lists from Cogny — the connector reads the structure and creates content within it. The ClickUp v2 API rate-limits by token (100 requests a minute on the free tier) and answers HTTP 429 when the limit is reached; the connector reports the reset time so the agent can wait and retry. The full tool list, with what each tool reads or changes, is on the ClickUp tools page. If you need one of the missing pieces, ask your agent to request it: it can file the request itself from inside Cogny.
ClickUp beside your ad platforms, your analytics and your CRM, in one conversation, turns "this campaign underperformed" into a task that's assigned, tagged and dated today. Connect ClickUp from your Cogny dashboard and ask your first question.