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  "name": "io.github.cjo4m06/mcp-shrimp-task-manager",
  "description": "Shrimp Task Manager is an MCP server that converts natural-language goals into structured, dependency-tracked development tasks and then drives an agent through planning, execution, and verification. It is opinionated about chain-of-thought: the agent must plan and analyze before it decomposes, decompose before it executes, and verify each task on completion. Tasks persist across sessions with explicit dependencies, so a coding agent can pick up a partially-finished plan and continue without rediscovering what is left.",
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  "version": "latest",
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      "githubStars": 2120,
      "lastCommitAt": "2025-08-21T08:55:59Z"
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  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/cjo4m06/mcp-shrimp-task-manager",
    "source": "github"
  },
  "author": {
    "name": "cjo4m06 (community)"
  },
  "packages": [
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      "registryType": "npm",
      "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
      "identifier": "clone",
      "version": "latest",
      "transport": {
        "type": "stdio"
      },
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          "value": "https://github.com/cjo4m06/mcp-shrimp-task-manager"
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          "value": "&&"
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          "value": "npm"
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          "value": "install"
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          "value": "&&"
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          "type": "positional",
          "value": "npm"
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        {
          "type": "positional",
          "value": "run"
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        {
          "type": "positional",
          "value": "build"
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      "environmentVariables": [
        {
          "name": "DATA_DIR",
          "description": "DATA_DIR — required credential for Shrimp Task Manager.",
          "isRequired": true,
          "isSecret": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "capabilities": {
    "tools": [
      {
        "name": "plan_task",
        "description": "Plan and analyze a goal before decomposition.",
        "sideEffect": "read",
        "args": [
          {
            "name": "description",
            "type": "string",
            "required": true
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "split_tasks",
        "description": "Decompose a plan into dependency-tracked tasks.",
        "sideEffect": "write",
        "args": [
          {
            "name": "tasks",
            "type": "array",
            "required": true
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "execute_task",
        "description": "Execute the next available task in dependency order.",
        "sideEffect": "write",
        "args": [
          {
            "name": "taskId",
            "type": "string",
            "required": true
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "verify_task",
        "description": "Verify a task meets its completion criteria.",
        "sideEffect": "read",
        "args": [
          {
            "name": "taskId",
            "type": "string",
            "required": true
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "list_tasks",
        "description": "List tasks with status and dependencies.",
        "sideEffect": "read"
      }
    ],
    "security": {
      "scope": "read-write",
      "sandbox": "Reads and writes the task graph to a local DATA_DIR. No outbound network calls of its own; the agent does the work, Shrimp tracks it.",
      "gotchas": [
        "No npx package — the clone-and-build step is required, which makes it harder to pin to a version than registry-published servers.",
        "The task graph lives in DATA_DIR as plain files; back it up if a long-running plan matters.",
        "Single-author community project — evaluate maintenance before depending on it for production workflows."
      ]
    }
  },
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    "markdown": "https://top-mcps.com/mcp/shrimp-task-manager.md",
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