Claude Todoist connectorWhat Claude can do in your Todoist account.
The Claude Todoist connector exposes 27 tools: 14 read, 13 write. Claude can find what is due, add and complete tasks, reshuffle projects and assign work, and one tool deletes for good. Below: every tool in plain words, what asks first and where the limits are.
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What the Claude Todoist connector changes in your day
Your to-do list becomes something you can talk to. Ask Claude what is on today, including what slipped from yesterday, and it reads your Todoist. Tell it to break a project into tasks, push three of them to Friday and tick off the one you just finished, and it does that too.
Plan the day in one question. find-tasks-by-date pulls today's tasks with the overdue ones included, and get-overview lays out a project section by section.
Capture without switching apps. add-tasks drops several tasks at once into the right project or section, and can hand them to a collaborator on the spot.
Review a week honestly. Doist points to find-activity for questions like what you got done, recurring tasks included, which the completed-tasks tool alone misses.
Now the part that deserves care. delete-object removes projects, tasks, comments, labels, filters or reminders outright, and Doist flags several other tools, task updates among them, as potentially destructive. How far back activity history goes depends on your Todoist tier. And nothing starts by itself: no task appears when an email arrives. For that kind of hands-off flow you want an automation tool, a different job covered by the Todoist n8n integration and the Todoist Make integration.
Five words before you connect Todoist
The Claude vocabulary around this connector, in one minute.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already own, so Claude can work in it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named thing the connector lets Claude do. Claude picks what it needs by itself; the directory lists all 27 by name.
- Authorization
- Todoist's own sign-in screen, where you grant the access Claude will use. Given once per person, and it can be taken back.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes ahead with a change to your tasks, shown right in the conversation.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant such as Claude talk to an outside service like Todoist.
Connect Todoist to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Todoist in Claude
Open Claude's settings, go to Customize then Connectors, and look up Todoist. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable it before members can each sign in.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on the Todoist row, then log in to Todoist in the window that Todoist opens itself. If the link ever breaks later on, Disconnect and connect again.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Check Todoist's authorization screen before you accept. That screen belongs to Todoist, not to Claude, and sets what the access covers. You can withdraw the access later from your Todoist account too.
The 27 tools, split by what they do
Todoist gives Claude 27 tools: 14 that read your account, 13 that change something in it.
Two groups: what Claude reads and what it changes. Doist describes every tool in its public code, and these notes rest on those descriptions. Names stay exactly as Claude shows them.
- 14 read
- 13 write
What Claude reads (14)
14 toolsFourteen tools that look at your tasks, projects and people, and leave them as they are.
fetch
Returns the full contents of one task or project from its ID. Comments are not included; Claude looks those up separately.
fetch-object
Brings back one task, project, comment or section in full, and can include its direct subtasks or sub-projects. Claude reaches for it once it already knows the exact ID.
find-activity
Reads the activity log of your account: completions, task and project events, from every user by default or filtered to one person. Doist points questions about what you got done here, recurring tasks included.
find-comments
Looks up the comments on a task or a project, or one comment by its ID, so Claude can summarize a discussion instead of you scrolling through it.
find-completed-tasks
Lists tasks completed within a date range, seven days back by default, across all collaborators unless one person is named.
find-project-collaborators
Finds people by name or email among the collaborators of your shared projects, to get the user ID other tools need. An empty result only means you share no project with that person.
find-projects
Lists your projects or searches them by name. Active projects come back by default; archived ones only when Claude asks for them.
find-sections
Searches the sections of a project by name or other criteria, without pulling every section of the project first, which keeps big projects quick to navigate.
find-tasks
Finds tasks by text, project, section, parent, assignee or label, or through a Todoist filter, including a saved one you call by name. At least one criterion is needed.
find-tasks-by-date
Gets tasks for a date range. Starting from today pulls in overdue items too, and by default it keeps to tasks that are yours or unassigned.
get-overview
Returns a Markdown outline. Without a project, it shows your project and section structure only; with one, or with the Inbox, it lists that project's tasks grouped by section.
list-workspaces
Lists the Todoist workspaces you belong to, with name, your role, sharing settings and guest permissions, plus the workspace tier.
search
Searches across tasks and projects and returns matching results with their IDs, titles and links. Those IDs are what fetch then uses to open the full task or project.
user-info
Reads your profile: user ID, name, email, time zone and local time, week start, the current week's dates, goal progress and your Todoist tier. It is how Claude knows what today means for you.
What Claude changes (13)
13 toolsThirteen tools that alter your Todoist account. No source spells out a confirmation for any of them, so the general rule below applies.
add-comments
Approval: see the rulePosts several comments at once on tasks or projects, and can notify the collaborators involved. Each comment is tied to exactly one task or one project, never floating on its own.
add-projects
Approval: see the ruleCreates one or more new projects in your account in a single call. Projects are the containers your tasks live in, so this is usually step one of any new piece of work.
add-sections
Approval: see the ruleAdds sections inside projects, so a long list splits into stages like planning, doing and review.
add-tasks
Approval: see the ruleDrops one or several tasks into a project, a section or under a parent task, and can assign them to project collaborators on the way in.
complete-tasks
Approval: see the ruleMarks one or more tasks as done by their IDs. Doist tags it as potentially destructive, which is worth knowing for recurring tasks and shared lists.
delete-object
Approval: see the ruleDeletes a project, section, task, comment, label, filter or reminder by its ID. A workspace project has to be archived first; a personal one can go straight away.
manage-assignments
Approval: see the ruleAssigns, unassigns or reassigns many tasks in one batch, and rolls everything back if one step fails. Doist tags it as potentially destructive.
project-management
Approval: see the ruleArchives a project by its ID, or brings an archived one back. It is the gentle way to put a finished project out of sight.
project-move
Approval: see the ruleMoves a project between your personal space and a workspace, which matters for who can see it.
update-comments
Approval: see the ruleReplaces the content of several existing comments. Doist tags it as potentially destructive, since the old wording is gone.
update-projects
Approval: see the ruleApplies new values to several existing projects at once, such as a name or other project settings.
update-sections
Approval: see the ruleGives several existing sections new values in one pass, for example the stages of a whole project.
update-tasks
Approval: see the ruleChanges existing tasks: their content, dates, priorities and assignees, touching only the fields that move. It is the tool behind push this to Friday.
What Claude checks with you first
By default, Claude stops and asks before each action it takes on an account for someone. With 13 writing tools here, including one that deletes, that default is the part worth keeping.
On Team and Enterprise workspaces, owners decide whether members may let some actions run without a prompt each time. They can also limit what a connector may do across the organization, for example keeping reading on and writing off, and nobody overrides that from a personal account. Claude works with the rights of the person who connected and nothing beyond: a shared project you cannot open in Todoist stays out of its reach, and collaborator search only covers people you share projects with.
Which plans include it
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows plan availability. The answer per connector is published nowhere, and that is a real gap in the catalog.
What is published is the general rule: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner opens a connector for the organization before members can each connect. For the live state, check the Todoist sheet in the official directory. Only Doist documents this connector, through its public code; no Claude help article covers it.
Where the Todoist connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you, so nothing happens when a task is due or a new one lands in your Inbox.
Doist calls the project early-stage and promises more and better tools soon, so the list of 27 may move. The descriptions on this page come from Doist's public code, read on the date shown; nothing guarantees the server behind Claude runs that exact version. The partner badge in the directory is not a security audit, and Anthropic states on every sheet that it neither picks the tools a publisher exposes nor guarantees they behave as announced. For a connector where official sources contradict each other, see the Claude gmail connector.
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