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 compact briefing on the user's Scrumban board: columns, active sprint, Doing, overdue tasks and recent closes, about 30x smaller than a full snapshot.
Weft is the AI task manager for solo founders and small teams.
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.