Get Board Briefing
get_board_state is one of the 32 MCP tools in Weft, the AI task manager you run by talking to Claude, Cursor, Codex or ChatGPT through one MCP endpoint. Return a briefing about the user's Scrumban board: its size, columns and their counts, projects, the active sprint, everything in Doing, what is overdue, what is next in Todo and what closed recently. Enough to answer most questions about current work state in a fraction of the context — around thirty times smaller than the full snapshot on a real board.
Arguments
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| detail | 'digest' | 'full' | no | How much to return. 'digest' (default) is the briefing. 'full' is every field of every task, capped at 200 — large boards can exceed a client's response limit, so ask for it only when you need the text of every task. |
Returns
By default: totalTasks, limits, activeSprint or null, columns (each with its task count and WIP limit), projects with counts, doing (all of it), overdue, nextUp, recentlyDone, and a `more` line naming the ways to drill down. With detail:'full': columns, every task with all fields, activeSprint, projects, members, mcpClients and limits — capped at 200 tasks, and when it truncates you get truncated: true plus the real total.
Annotations
- read-only. The tool does not mutate server state. Safe to call automatically.
Example
What the user says:
"What's on my board right now?"What the AI calls under the hood:
{
"name": "get_board_state",
"arguments": {}
}Related
- All 32 MCP tools — the catalog view.
- Shuttle — how the AI client uses these tools.
- Call this tool through your own client: see setup guides, or hit
https://letsweft.com/api/mcpdirectly.