Connect with Claude

Add Hilbana as a custom connector in claude.ai and operate your issues from Claude, on web and desktop.

You can connect Hilbana straight to Claude (claude.ai, web and desktop app) as a custom connector. From there, Claude drives your tracker with Hilbana’s tools: list and create issues, change states, comment, search, read project docs and memory.

Unlike an API key, here you manage no keys by hand: you sign in with your Hilbana account in the browser (OAuth) and grant permissions on an authorization screen. It’s the recommended flow for personal use from Claude.

Connect in claude.ai

  1. In claude.ai, open Customize → Connectors.
  2. Click the + button (top) → Add custom connector.
  3. Fill in:
    • Name: Hilbana.
    • Remote MCP server URL: https://app.hilbana.com/mcp.
  4. Click Add, then Connect.
  5. The Hilbana screen opens:
    • If you already have a session in Hilbana in that browser, you go straight to permissions.
    • Otherwise, sign in with your email and password.
  6. Pick the workspace and the permissions, and click Authorize.

You return to claude.ai with the connector connected and its tools ready.

Permissions

On the authorization screen you grant:

  • Read issues and projects (read): always included.
  • Create and edit issues and projects (write): optional; check it if you want Claude to be able to change things, not just read them.

Authorization is always explicit: nothing is granted unless you click Authorize. Claude never sees your password — you type it on Hilbana’s screen, not in Claude.

Using it

Once connected, ask Claude in natural language, for example:

  • “List my open issues in Hilbana.”
  • “Create an issue in project X with this title and description.”
  • “What’s on the roadmap for this cycle?”

By default Claude asks for your approval before using each tool; you can tune that per tool on the connector’s card.

Disconnect or revoke

From Customize → Connectors → Hilbana → Disconnect in claude.ai. Access is cut immediately; tokens expire and are revocable. You can reconnect any time by repeating the steps above.

Connector or API key

  • Connector (OAuth) — to operate Hilbana from Claude yourself, keyless.
  • API key — for agents and services or headless / CI setups, where you paste a Bearer hil_… with a fixed scope and read-only mode.

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