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Use Klio with Claude Code

Add Klio to Claude Code with one command. Claude reads your stories, claims one, ticks criteria as it works and hands it back for review.

!Before you start: create a token in Klio under Settings → Connect agents, and use it in place of klio_YOUR_TOKEN.

  1. Add the server

    Run this once. --scope user makes Klio available in every repo; drop it to add Klio to the current project only.

    terminal
    claude mcp add --scope user --transport http klio https://klio.dev/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer klio_YOUR_TOKEN"

  2. Check it's connected

    Start Claude Code and run /mcp. Klio should be listed as connected, with its tools.

    terminal
    claude
/mcp

  3. Check it works

    Ask Claude: “call klio whoami”. It answers with your name, workspace and the projects the token can see.

iPrefer a project-scoped token for repos you share. In Klio: Settings → Connect agents → Only some projects.
iKlio also ships prompts: type /mcp__klio__build POC-F4 or /mcp__klio__resume in Claude Code.

Then paste the setup prompt

With Claude Code connected, this puts the repo on your board and starts building with you. Replace the highlighted part.

The setup prompt
Use Klio (klio.dev) as the project board for this repo. It's connected over MCP as "klio".

1. Call whoami to check the connection. If it fails, stop and tell me what to fix.
2. Find this repo's project with list_projects. If there isn't one, create it with create_project: name it after the repo and pick a short key.
3. Record what's already here: call sync_stack with package.json (and any other manifests), add features that already work as done stories, and half-finished work as stories in progress.
4. What I'm building next: <describe it in a sentence or two>
   Call brief_feature, write small stories with acceptance criteria, show me the plan, and save it with create_feature once I approve.
5. Build it one story at a time: start_issue before you write code, check_criterion as each criterion really passes, complete_issue with a short summary once it's tested. Don't start a second story while one is in progress, and leave Done to me.
6. Before you stop, hand me anything only I can do (secrets, DNS, billing) with flag_for_human.

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Endpoint: https://klio.dev/api/mcp. Menus and file paths can move between Claude Code releases; if a step looks different, the server URL and header are what matter.