Claude Trello connectorWhat Claude can do in your Trello account.
The Claude Trello connector exposes 15 tools: 9 read, 6 write. Claude can see your boards, cards and Inbox, then add, move, archive and tick things off for you. Below: what each tool does, what Trello blocks outright, and how admins set the limits.
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What the Claude Trello connector changes in a busy week
You stop clicking through five boards to find what is due. Ask Claude what is overdue across your boards, or to turn the plan you just discussed into a board, and it works in Trello while it answers, within the workspaces and permissions you granted at sign-in.
Turn a conversation into a board. You sketched a launch plan with Claude; trelloWriteBoard creates the board and trelloWriteCard fills it with cards, owners and labels.
See the week in one answer. trelloSearch and trelloReadCard pull what is due or overdue across boards, so Monday starts with a list rather than a tour of tabs.
Empty the Inbox. trelloWriteInbox sorts the cards you captured on the go, and Trello's own example is moving everything in your Inbox onto boards.
What it will not do is just as clear. Trello blocks permanent deletion: cards and lists can be archived, never destroyed. Local files cannot be uploaded to a card, only links. Some features, like focus time in Planner or custom fields, depend on your Trello tier. And nothing runs by itself: no card moves when a deadline passes. Recurring, event-driven flows belong to an automation tool, a different job covered by the Trello n8n integration and the Trello Make integration.
Five words before you connect Trello
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 the ones it needs on its own; the directory lists all 15 by name.
- Authorization
- Trello's consent screen, where you pick the workspaces and permissions Claude gets. Given once per person, and revocable any time.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes ahead with a change to your boards, shown in the conversation when it matters.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant such as Claude talk to an outside service like Trello.
Connect Trello to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Trello in Claude
Open Claude's settings, go to Customize then Connectors, and look up Trello. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner must enable it before members can each sign in.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on the Trello row, then log in to Trello in the window it opens. That window belongs to Trello, not to Claude. If the link breaks, Disconnect and connect again.
- 03
Read the consent screen
Trello's consent screen, not Claude, decides what the access covers. Choose the workspaces you want from the drop-down (several are allowed), then review the permissions before you approve them.
The 15 tools, split by what they do
Trello gives Claude 15 tools: 9 that read your account, 6 that change something in it.
Two groups: what Claude reads and what it changes in your Trello account. Names stay exactly as Claude shows them.
- 9 read
- 6 write
What Claude reads (9)
9 toolsNine tools that look at your boards and leave them as they are.
trelloReadBoard
Opens a board and its labels so Claude knows its structure before answering. Trello's own example: asking Claude to review your wedding planning board and add anything missing.
trelloReadCard
Looks into a card's details, which is how Claude answers questions like what is due this week for you or what is overdue across boards.
trelloReadChecklist
Shows the checklists sitting on a card and where each item stands. Claude can tell you what is left before a card is really done.
trelloReadInbox
Lists the cards waiting in your Trello Inbox, the personal catch-all where quick ideas land before they reach a board.
trelloReadList
Returns a list on a board with its cards, the column view you would otherwise scan by eye in Trello, card after card.
trelloReadMember
Gives Claude your profile, defaults and member details across workspaces, boards and cards. That is how it knows which cards are yours.
trelloReadPlanner
Reads the calendar events in Trello Planner, so Claude sees your meetings next to your cards.
trelloReadWorkspace
Shows workspace details. It also lets Claude handle several authorized workspaces in the same conversation instead of one at a time. Several workspaces can be picked at once on Trello's consent screen.
trelloSearch
Finds cards and boards by keyword, which saves Claude from reading every board to answer a simple question.
What Claude changes (6)
6 toolsSix tools that alter your boards. No source spells out a confirmation for them, so the general rule below applies.
trelloWriteBoard
Approval: see the ruleCreates a new board in one of your authorized workspaces, the step behind turning a plan you just discussed into something the team can use.
trelloWriteCard
Approval: see the ruleThe busiest tool here: it creates, updates, moves and archives cards, marks them done, attaches or detaches labels and assigns members.
trelloWriteChecklist
Approval: see the ruleAdds a checklist to a card, then adds or updates its items, so a vague task gets real steps.
trelloWriteInbox
Approval: see the ruleCreates, updates and archives the cards in your Trello Inbox, which is how Claude clears that holding area once you tell it where each idea belongs.
trelloWriteList
Approval: see the ruleMoves lists. Those are the columns of a board, so Claude can reshape how work flows from left to right when you ask it to reorganize things.
trelloWritePlanner
Approval: see the ruleCreates focus-time events in Trello Planner and links or unlinks cards to events, blocking time in your calendar for real tasks.
What Claude checks with you first
By default, Claude stops and asks before each action it takes on an account for someone. The prompt appears in the conversation, at the moment a card is about to change.
On Team and Enterprise workspaces, owners decide whether members may let some actions through without being asked 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. Trello adds its own layer: you choose Read, Write and Search permissions on its consent screen, and every action respects your existing Trello rights. Claude cannot do anything you could not do in Trello yourself.
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 on the Claude side, check the Trello sheet in the official directory. Only Atlassian documents this connector.
Where the Trello connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you, so nothing moves when a due date passes or a card lands in a list.
Trello describes the connector as actively developed: labels, board settings and card copying are announced for later, not available now. Comments, activity summaries, custom fields and link attachments are listed as capabilities without a named tool, so it is unclear which of the 15 covers them. 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 sources contradict each other, see the Claude gmail connector.
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