# Chain of Thought Task Manager
> Task management system that converts natural language into organized development tasks with dependency tracking, implementation guides, and verification criteria through structured reasoning phases.
Canonical: https://www.mcpfolio.com/servers/chain-of-thought-task-manager
Last updated: 2026-10-28
## Catalog record

- Publisher: liorfranko
- Categories: development, productivity, search

## Repository

https://github.com/liorfranko/mcp-chain-of-thought

## Transports

stdio

## Authentication

No credentials were configured; the tested read-only tool “list_tasks” succeeded in an isolated environment. Other tools may have additional requirements.

## Tools

- **plan_task**: Initialize and detail the task flow, establish clear goals and success criteria, optionally reference existing tasks for continuation planning

- **analyze_task**: Deeply analyze task requirements and systematically check the codebase, evaluate technical feasibility and potential risks. If code is needed, use pseudocode format providing only high-level logic flow and key steps, avoiding complete code.

- **reflect_task**: Critically review analysis results, evaluate solution completeness and identify optimization opportunities, ensuring the solution aligns with best practices. If code is needed, use pseudocode format providing only high-level logic flow and key steps, avoiding complete code.

- **split_tasks**: Decompose complex tasks into independent subtasks, establishing dependencies and priorities.

## updateMode

- **append**: Keep existing tasks and add new ones
- **overwrite**: Delete unfinished tasks, keep completed ones
- **selective**: Intelligently match and update existing tasks based on name
- **clearAllTasks**: Clear all tasks and create a backup (preferred mode)

## Key Requirements

- **Provide concise pseudocode**: Only provide high-level logic flow and key steps, avoid complete code
- **Consolidate when necessary**: Simple modifications can be integrated with other tasks to avoid excessive task count
- **Submit in batches**: If there are too many tasks, use the "split_tasks" tool with parameters not exceeding 5000 characters

- **list_tasks**: Generate a structured task list, including complete status tracking, priority, and dependencies

- **execute_task**: Execute a specific task according to the predefined plan, ensuring the output of each step meets quality standards

- **verify_task**: Comprehensively verify task completion, ensuring all requirements and technical standards are met without missing details

- **complete_task**: Formally mark a task as completed, generate a detailed completion report, and update the dependency status of related tasks

- **delete_task**: Delete unfinished tasks, but does not allow deleting completed tasks, ensuring the integrity of system records

- **clear_all_tasks**: Clear unfinished tasks and reset the task list

- **update_task**: Update task content, including name, description and notes, dependent tasks, related files, implementation guide and verification criteria. Completed tasks only allow updating summary and related files

- **query_task**: Search tasks by keyword or ID, displaying abbreviated task information

- **get_task_detail**: Get the complete detailed information of a task based on its ID, including unabridged implementation guides and verification criteria, etc.

- **process_thought**: Engage in a flexible and evolving thinking process by creating, questioning, validating, and refining ideas to progressively deepen understanding and generate effective solutions. When needing to gather data, analyze, or research, prioritize reviewing relevant project code; if such code doesn't exist, search the web rather than speculating. Set nextThoughtNeeded to false when thinking is sufficient, otherwise adjust total_thoughts to extend the process

- **init_project_rules**: Initialize project rules. Call this tool when the user requests to generate or initialize the project specification file, or if the user requests to change or update the project specification.


## Sources

- [MCP.Directory public profile](https://mcp.directory/servers/chain-of-thought-task-manager)
- [Linked publisher repository](https://github.com/liorfranko/mcp-chain-of-thought)
- [npm registry metadata](https://registry.npmjs.org/mcp-chain-of-thought)
- [maintainer_repository_documentation](https://github.com/liorfranko/mcp-chain-of-thought)

## Setup

Use the interactive setup panel on [the detail page](https://www.mcpfolio.com/servers/chain-of-thought-task-manager) to view instructions for each supported client.