Overview

What is devto and how does it work?

devto is an AI work manager that lives inside Claude Code. It actively manages your project work alongside you as you code — planning features, tracking progress, and updating your project management tool without you ever leaving your editor.

The project tool (Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues) is the output mechanism. The intelligence is Claude Code itself, enhanced with 44 specialized MCP tools that understand developer intent.

How it works

devto registers as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server inside Claude Code. Once installed, Claude Code gains access to tools for planning, creating, updating, and searching work items in your project tracker.

When you start a coding session, devto silently loads your project context — active epics, open tasks, sprint status — so Claude Code already knows what you are working on. As you describe features, fix bugs, or discuss architecture, Claude Code can create plans, update tickets, log time, and manage sprints without you switching to a browser.

Core concepts

Ambient work management

devto is not a ticket lookup tool. It is an ambient work management layer. When you say "I just finished the auth feature," Claude Code can update the ticket status and add a summary comment — all from your terminal. No tab switching, no copy-pasting ticket keys.

Semantic matching

You do not need to memorize ticket keys. Say "update the login bug" and devto fuzzy-matches it against your open tickets. If multiple results match, you get a disambiguation prompt.

AI-powered planning

Describe a feature in natural language. devto generates a structured plan — epic, stories, subtasks — using your Anthropic API key locally. Review the plan, confirm it, and every ticket is created in your project tracker.

Provider abstraction

devto talks to your project tracker through a provider abstraction layer. Today, Jira is fully supported. Linear and GitHub Issues are on the roadmap. Your workflow stays the same regardless of which tool your team uses.

Quick start

bash

npm install -g devto-mcp
devto login
devto config set anthropic-key sk-ant-xxxx
devto init
# Restart Claude Code

That is the entire setup. Five commands, no YAML, no config files to maintain. See the Installation guide for detailed steps.