# Lific

Lific keeps issues and plans in SQLite and exposes them to AI agents through MCP. It fits work that must continue after a session ends.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed · ★ 80
- Author: VoidNullable
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/VoidNullable/lific
- Updated: 2026-10-19
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/lific

## What it does

Lific is a local issue tracker shipped as one binary with SQLite, a web UI, and built-in backups. Its MCP server gives an agent tools for issues, plans, pages, comments, links, attachments, search, activity history, and export. Issue IDs use a readable form such as `APP-42`.

Install it with `cargo install lific`, run `lific init`, then connect a client with `lific connect`. Initialization creates the configuration, database, admin account, and background service on `:3456`; the UI is available at `http://localhost:3456`. The connector can write MCP settings for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Zed, and other listed clients.

One Lific instance uses one SQLite file, so it does not fit a setup that needs several servers to sync with each other. You can skip the background service with `lific init --no-service` and start it yourself with `lific start`. Use `lific doctor` to check the configuration, database, server, and MCP round trip.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Install**
- The MCP registry has no launch command for it: see the repository README

## When to use it
- carry issues across agent sessions
- build plans with nested steps
- show an agent work whose blockers are resolved
- link issues to people or date windows
- save completion evidence with an issue

## Example prompts
- Show the briefing and next steps for project `APP` through Lific.
- Create a nested plan for project `APP` and connect its steps to issues.
- Find my active issues across the projects I belong to, including blocked work.

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