The AI manager for your workspace. Pickle audits ClickUp for stale tasks, broken promises, and forty-hour time entries with empty descriptions — then tells Claude, Cursor, Codex, or Cline exactly what needs your attention today. Slack and Microsoft Teams Manager Mode is in private alpha — waitlist below.
If your team lives in ClickUp and you're tired of dashboards that lie, this is for you.
Every tool's native AI summarises what's already inside it. None of them audit. None compare what your team said they'd do against what the tasks actually show. Pickle does — and it speaks fluent ClickUp.
The dashboard shows the task is being worked on. ClickUp Brain will happily summarise it. But nobody asks what those 40 hours actually bought.
It's not blocked, it's not done, it's just there. By the time you notice in your monthly review, it's been months.
Your team's chat is full of soft commitments. None of them are tracked. Promises die in scrollback and nobody remembers who said what.
Tasks that nobody refused but nobody picked up. Quietly aging in the list. Showing up in every report as "still pending."
Pickle runs as a hosted MCP server. Your AI host (Claude, Cursor, Codex, Cline) talks to it over HTTPS. Your ClickUp token lives only inside the request — never stored, never logged.
Drop your email below. Get a Pickle key + your ClickUp API token (30-second copy from ClickUp settings).
Drop the MCP config into Claude / Cursor / Codex / Cline. Restart the app. Done. No npm, no Node, no terminal.
"What in ClickUp needs my attention today?" Pickle scans, ranks, your AI explains. Across spaces, lists, comments, time entries — the works.
Real failure modes that look fine on the dashboard but aren't. Every one detected automatically — you don't ask, Pickle tells.
Hours pile up on a task. Descriptions are blank or "8h development". The dashboard says someone's working; nothing in the artefact says what they built.
Not blocked. Not done. Just sitting. The kind of task you find in your monthly review and realize it's been moving sideways since March.
30+ days since assignment, never opened, never mentioned in any chat. Lives in the list like a forgotten password. Counts in every report as "pending."
When the standup message is >85% identical to yesterday's, it's not an update — it's a placeholder. Pickle catches the similarity and flags those days as zero-evidence.
Soft commitments in chat die in scrollback. Pickle reads ClickUp comments + chat, anchors the temporal commit, and flags it by Friday EOD with the exact quote.
Blocked status is fine for a day. Two weeks is a process failure. Pickle stamps days-unresolved on every blocker; auto-🔴 at 14 days, asks who owns the unblock.
High effort + low signal + still-open status = a task that's quietly burning your runway. Pickle cites hours, comment count, and the window so you can ask the right question.
Comments: 0. Chat messages: 0. Task updates: 0. For 40%+ of the window. Pickle flags the gap and checks if they were DM-active (so you know if it's burnout or just async).
Completion claimed in chat but the card still says "in progress." Two weeks later, the dashboard says you're behind. Pickle gives partial credit + a hygiene flag.
Time billed isn't the same as time accounted for. Pickle scores description quality — does it actually describe what shipped, or does it just list how long it took?
The hardest pattern to see in yourself. Pickle inverts the audit and shows you every task or comment your team is waiting on. Days of yours-blocking-theirs.
Group DMs are where decisions actually happen. Cards are where they're supposed to land. Pickle scans group DMs, matches mentions of task IDs, and links the decision back.
If Pickle flagged a task as stale this Monday, last Monday, and the Monday before — that's not a task, that's a graveyard entry. Time to kill or recommit.
Free is fully functional today — every pattern, every tool, every host. Pro lands when Slack and Microsoft Teams join, plus weekly summaries and multi-person manager reports.
Everything you need to run an AI-managed ClickUp inbox. No card, no account, no limits today.
For team leads managing work across ClickUp, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. Cross-platform audit, weekly summaries, multi-person view.
Why we host this instead of asking you to self-host. Self-hosting an MCP server means you maintain Node.js, TLS, uptime, and miss every pattern update we ship. We host it so you don't have to — patterns get smarter every week, latency stays low, and your token never sits on someone else's hard drive. The code is on GitHub if you want to read it, but we don't recommend running your own.
No account. No password. We email you occasional product updates — unsubscribe anytime. That's it.
Then paste the config block into Claude, Cursor, Codex, or Cline. Tabs below.
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// Add to ~/.claude.json { "mcpServers": { "pickle": { "type": "http", "url": "https://pickle.adityaarsharma.com/mcp", "headers": { "x-pickle-key": "YOUR_PICKLE_KEY", "x-clickup-token": "pk_YOUR_CLICKUP_TOKEN" } } } }
// Cursor → Settings → MCP → Add new server { "pickle": { "type": "http", "url": "https://pickle.adityaarsharma.com/mcp", "headers": { "x-pickle-key": "YOUR_PICKLE_KEY", "x-clickup-token": "pk_YOUR_CLICKUP_TOKEN" } } }
// .clinerules or VSCode MCP settings { "mcpServers": { "pickle": { "type": "http", "url": "https://pickle.adityaarsharma.com/mcp", "headers": { "x-pickle-key": "YOUR_PICKLE_KEY", "x-clickup-token": "pk_YOUR_CLICKUP_TOKEN" } } } }
// mcp.config.json { "servers": [ { "name": "pickle", "type": "http", "url": "https://pickle.adityaarsharma.com/mcp", "headers": { "x-pickle-key": "YOUR_PICKLE_KEY", "x-clickup-token": "pk_YOUR_CLICKUP_TOKEN" } } ] }
Pickle is designed stateless. The only thing we store is your email + the free key — for product updates. Task data, chat content, and your ClickUp token are never stored, never logged, never seen by us.
Your ClickUp token travels in the HTTPS request header. It's used to call ClickUp's API on your behalf, then discarded. Never written to disk.
No chat history. No task content. No comments. Every request is independent — when the response is sent, it disappears from server memory.
Every line of the remote server is on GitHub under MIT. Review it before you connect. Self-host it if you want full control.
If you're going to add an MCP server to your workspace, you deserve to know exactly what it does and doesn't do.
Pickle is the AI manager for your ClickUp workspace. It audits for 13 specific patterns — stale tasks, broken promises, forty-hour time entries with empty descriptions, zombie tasks, decisions made in DM but never logged on the card. Then it surfaces a ranked inbox of what needs your attention today, through whichever AI host you already use (Claude, Cursor, Codex, Cline).
Your token travels inside the HTTPS request header. Pickle uses it to call ClickUp's API on your behalf, then discards it. The server stores nothing — no tokens, no task data, no chat content, no logs. Every request is independent. The only thing we keep is your email (if you submit one for the free key) so we can email you about product updates.
No. The Cloud install is the official path — paste one config block into your AI host, restart it, you're live in 60 seconds. No Node.js, no shell scripts, no terminal. The code is on GitHub if you want to read it; we don't recommend running your own copy.
Any host that speaks MCP — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex (OpenAI Agent SDK), Cline, Continue, Zed, Goose. Install instructions for the four most popular are right above this FAQ.
Manager Mode is in private alpha right now. ClickUp scanning is what we offer today on the Cloud. If you join the Pro waitlist (the amber card above), you'll be the first invited when Slack and Teams ship — likely 4–6 weeks out.
Early-bird price is $29/month for waitlist signups. After launch it goes to standard pricing (TBD). Pro covers Slack + Teams + Manager Mode (multi-person reports) + weekly summary emails. Free continues to exist with full ClickUp coverage.
Brain summarises ClickUp; Slack AI summarises Slack. Neither audits. Neither tells you that a task has forty hours logged with an empty description, or that the standup said "shipping today" four days running. Pickle is built to compare what your team said against what the artefacts actually show.
One person: Aditya Sharma. Solo founder. Building productivity tools for the AI host generation. Code is open source under MIT; the server runs on infra I personally own. If anything breaks, you can email me and I'll respond — that's the founder-support guarantee.