Summary
Redmine project management: issues with their journals, projects, versions, time entries, users and the enumerations behind statuses, priorities and trackers. REST API, API-key auth against your own instance.
Guided setup
Connect Redmine to ChatGPT in 2 minutes
Start a free trial on AnythingMCP Cloud, connect Redmine in the guided setup, then add your MCP URL to ChatGPT. No code and no server to run.
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AnythingMCP's plugin in ChatGPT's directory answers questions from your company databases on AnythingMCP Cloud (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, SQLite, MongoDB, read-only): open the listing (opens in a new tab) and click Install plugin. Every other connector is added to ChatGPT as a custom MCP server with your AnythingMCP MCP URL.
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Example prompts for Redmine
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → Redmine, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key — done. No Docker, no
git clone, no local server.
Redmine + ChatGPT
Redmine project management: issues with their journals, projects, versions, time entries, users and the enumerations behind statuses, priorities and trackers. REST API, API-key auth against your own instance.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
REDMINE_URL, REDMINE_API_KEY
Step 1 — Get credentials
Turn the REST API on first. It is off by default.
- As an administrator go to Administration → Settings → API and tick Enable REST web service.
- Open My account for the user the agent should act as; the API access key is in the right-hand sidebar. Show it and copy it.
- Set
REDMINE_URLto your instance root (no trailing slash) andREDMINE_API_KEYto the key.
The header is X-Redmine-API-Key. Redmine also accepts the key as a key= query parameter, but a header keeps it out of the web server's access log.
…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in ChatGPT
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
ChatGPT adds MCP servers as plugins on its Plugins page, on the web and on paid plans. Developer mode is no longer needed. In a Business workspace only admins and owners can add one; in Enterprise and Edu an admin can grant the Create plugins with MCPs permission.
- Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, click Add, then Add custom MCP server.
- Enter a name, e.g. Name:
Redmine. - Under Connection, enter the Server URL
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_IDand keep Authentication on OAuth. - Select I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin. When ChatGPT asks, sign in to AnythingMCP and allow access.
- Install the new plugin from your personal plugins, then type @ in a chat and pick it.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
redmine_get_current_user | Read the user the API key belongs to, with their login, name, e-mail and project memberships |
redmine_list_projects | List projects with their id, identifier, name, description and status |
redmine_list_issues | List issues with Redmine's filter operators |
redmine_get_issue | Read one issue in full with its journals — the comment and field-change history, which the list endpoint omits because it can be long |
redmine_list_project_versions | List the versions (milestones and sprints) of one project with their name, due date, status and sharing |
redmine_list_time_entries | List logged time entries with their user, issue, project, date, hours and activity — the raw data behind any effort report |
redmine_list_users | List users with their login, name, e-mail and status, to resolve who an issue is assigned to |
redmine_list_issue_statuses | List the issue statuses this instance defines, with their id and whether each closes the issue |
redmine_list_trackers | List the trackers (Bug, Feature, Support and any custom ones) with their id and default status, so a tracker_id filter can be composed |
redmine_add_issue_note | Add a note to an issue |
FAQ
Does the free ChatGPT plan work with custom MCP servers? OpenAI documents custom MCP servers for paid plans only; the Free plan is not on its list.
Next steps
- Connector landing page
- Connect to Claude
- Connect to Cursor
- Connect to Gemini
- Connect to Meta Muse
- Connect to Microsoft Copilot
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