Available tools on Wrike MCP

The Wrike MCP server gives AI assistants a focused, dependable set of tools for working with your Wrike workspace. Rather than one flat catalog, the tools map to the shape of the work an assistant actually does: it orients itself, finds the right items, reads the detail, then creates, acts, and governs.

There are 17 tools in total — 13 that read your data and 4 that make changes. Every change goes through the same permissions you already have in Wrike.

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How to read this page
Each tool is marked Read (only retrieves information) or Write (creates or changes items). Assistants chain several tools to complete a request — for example, find an item, read its detail, then comment on it.

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New in v2
Reading your inbox, writing comments with @-mentions, richer filtering on search (assignee, status, dates, importance), and reliable navigation of large hierarchies.

The map — six stages of work

Stage	Focus	What it covers	Tools
1 · Orient	Cold start & navigation	Get your bearings and see what needs attention	`search_spaces`, `get_items_children`, `get_my_inbox`
2 · Find	Search & discovery	Locate the right work items and people	`search_items`, `search_users`, `get_users`
3 · Understand	Read the detail	Inspect fields, attachments, and conversation history	`get_item_details`, `get_item_comments`
4 · Create	Turn talk & docs into work	Create tasks, folders, and projects	`create_task_item`, `create_project_folder_item`
5 · Act & follow through	Update & collaborate	Edit items in bulk and post comments	`update_items`, `create_item_comment`
6 · Configure & govern	Metadata & approvals	Work with workflows, custom fields, item types, and approvals	`search_workflows`, `search_customitemtypes`, `search_item_customfields`, `get_approvals`, `search_approvals`

🧭 Orient — cold start & navigation

Get your bearings: which spaces exist, what's inside them, and what needs your attention.

Tool	Type	What you can do
`search_spaces`	Read	List the spaces you belong to, or filter them by name.
`get_items_children`	Read	Walk the hierarchy one level at a time — drill from a space into folders, projects and tasks.
`get_my_inbox`	Read	Catch up on unread notifications: mentions, assignments, status changes and replies.

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Try asking
“What’s in my inbox that needs action today, and which project does each item belong to?”

🔎 Find — search & discovery

Locate the exact work and people you need, with natural-language search and precise filters.

Tool	Type	What you can do
`search_items`	Read	Search tasks, folders and projects by keyword; filter by assignee, status, dates and importance; scope to a space or subtree.
`search_users`	Read	Find people or groups by name — or, with no query, surface your top collaborators.
`get_users`	Read	Look up specific users by id or email, or resolve “me”.

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Try asking
“Find the active tasks assigned to me in the Marketing space that are due this week.”

📖 Understand — read the detail

Go deep on the items that matter: their fields, people, attachments and conversations.

Tool	Type	What you can do
`get_item_details`	Read	Get the full detail of up to five items at once — status, custom fields, assignees and attachments, including linked external files.
`get_item_comments`	Read	Read an item's full comment thread, with author and timestamp for each comment.

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Try asking
“Summarise the comment thread on this task into decisions, open questions and owners.”

🏗️ Create — turn talk & documents into work

Convert meeting notes, briefs and conversations into structured, assigned, scheduled work.

Tool	Type	What you can do
`create_task_item`	Write	Create one or many tasks; set assignee, dates, duration and status; nest them as subtasks.
`create_project_folder_item`	Write	Create folders and projects — optionally from a custom item type — and set owners, dates and status.

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Try asking
“Turn these meeting notes into tasks under the Q3 Launch project, each assigned with a due date.”

✅ Act & follow through — update & collaborate

Move work forward: update items in bulk and keep the conversation going.

Tool	Type	What you can do
`update_items`	Write	Edit title, description, status, dates and custom fields; add or remove assignees and parents; convert an item's type; apply the same change to up to 20 items at once.
`create_item_comment`	Write	Post a comment on any task, folder or project and @-mention teammates.

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Try asking
“Mark these three tasks complete and leave a comment tagging the owner for review.”

⚙️ Configure & govern — metadata & approvals

Understand the workspace's structure and stay on top of sign-offs.

Tool	Type	What you can do
`search_workflows`	Read	Find workflows and their custom statuses, including the status ids needed to set or filter status.
`search_customitemtypes`	Read	Find a custom item type and its id, ranked by how often it's used.
`search_item_customfields`	Read	Find custom fields by name, with their type and any select-list options.
`get_approvals`	Read	Look up approvals by id, or list the approvals on a given item — status, approvers and decisions.
`search_approvals`	Read	Filter across approvals by status, approver and due date.

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Try asking
“Which approvals are still waiting on me, and how long have they been pending?”

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See these tools in action
For end-to-end scenarios that chain these tools together — meeting-to-work, daily inbox review, weekly status reports, client QBRs and more — see Typical Use Cases of Wrike MCP. To connect a client, start from the Wrike MCP Server Overview.