Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

vitriapp

Hello folks, sharing my latest open source project, a kanban board with parallel agents. Trying to improve this with more features, I would love your contributions on this repo, with either code contributions or ideas

cyclopeanutopia

I don't understand this.

wyre

Just post the GitHub page if it’s open-source. It’s great you have a domain name, but if your website is going to look the same as every other SaaS product designed by Claude it’s really hard to look past that and look at the novelty or benefits of the product.

satvikpendem

This is basically what Windsurf is doing right [0]? Ultimately all this UI stuff is just window dressing on top of agents. [0] https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-2-0

rapiz

fyi https://github.com/multica-ai/multica

chrisweekly

> "Local-first, zero servers. Everything lives in .kanbots/ next to your repo: SQLite database, configs, worktrees. No cloud account, no telemetry, no HTTP server. This is the open-source desktop edition." This is table-stakes for me to consider adoption of a tool like this.

block_dagger

To the website maintainers: https://www.kanbots.dev/comparisons returns a 404

KronisLV

Cline was also working on something like this: https://github.com/cline/kanban

sinandrei

Could this be something running of our a Github kanban board?

rigonkulous

Yes, this is like, the best thing ever .. I've generally been doing this, albeit with command-line Jira and a "my workflow is my prompt" philosophy, resulting in a fleet of little kanbans .. and my agents are really, really doing well. They never sleep, eat, etc. But .. you know something cute? AI makes using Jira fun, again.

speedgoose

I have got more frustrations than successes when I tried to run agents without supervising them. I believe the technology will get there eventually, but right now I need one IDE per agent and its cumbersome to merge the work.

Guillaume86

Tangential question for Claude Code subscribers, mid June `claude -p` will move to api pricing (with some "SDK credits" before it kicks in), so headless usage will become 20-30 times more expensive, and all these high level orchestrator tools/workflows depend on it. What the next move for you? How does the OpenAI subscriptions compare? Similar limitations?

meagher

big opportunity to buy kan.bot

aitchnyu

I keep wondering how people accept a nights worth of agent activity. I feel 30 minutes of planning and 30 minutes of implementation in my solo side project's repo is too big to review. At minute 5, I may ask the AI to redo stuff even as its spitting out code.

jorl17

Personally, this is somewhat close to what I want. I want to have a fullblown cursor instance/window for each task I have, and a central Hub that manages spawning those instances, setting up the worktrees, etc. Cursor seems to pretty much have all the available tools there already (it can already spawn agents to their own worktrees with proper setup scripts, for example). I don't get why they don't do it and instead insist on a buggy and confusing agents experience. Unfortunately, most attempts at this seem to assume I want a model where "1 task = 1 agent = 1 chat", whereas what I really want is "1 task = 1 worktree = 1 full IDE around it". With the full IDE I can have multiple agents/conversations, review code thoroughly and also chip in once in a while. I can have multiple models (that I pick) in multiple chats, iterate forwards, backwards, you name it. I really don't understand why there seems to be this idea that "parallel agents" should live in their own little restricted flow that's limited to a tiny chat interface. I want the full flow for every agent! I was hoping cursor would do this, but they really seem to be going the direction of turning their absolutely terrible web agents UI (where you can't even CHANGE THE MODEL!!!!) into a desktop thing. Sad, as I've been an Ultra paying customer and might have to leave soon with the direction they're heading.

ptengelmann

one of your pages return 404 /comparison... but cool project! I guess we're just still not there to let agents run without supervision. At least for me.

KerrickStaley

This reminds me of Vibe Kanban ( https://vibekanban.com/ ) which I use to manage coding agents on most of my projects. The Vibe Kanban developers unfortunately decided that they didn't see a path to profitability and have stopped investing in the project. It's open source and so you can run it locally / fork it, but it has stopped improving and there are still annoying bugs that need to be fixed (and I don't have time to maintain it personally). This makes me sad because I would be willing to pay for Vibe Kanban, but I didn't need the features their paid plan offered (in retrospect maybe I should have paid anyway). I'll give Kanbots a go :) I'd recommend liberally copying features from Vibe Kanban. In particular the remote support and "Open in VS Code" button (which in my case opens a local VSCode client pointing to a remote VSCode server) are critical for me.

2001zhaozhao

Looks very nice! Just a heads up, the website is extremely choppy on WebKit (Orion Browser) for me when scrolling edit: not working with Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock, it needs a claude scription

m_m_carvalho

The parallel agents concept is interesting. How does it handle state sync between agents when they're modifying the same board? Or is there built-in conflict resolution?

timfsu

This is dope! We basically built something very similar internally for our team and it's been a very natural and intuitive way to manage agents (as opposed to having a bunch of terminals to track). Not every task/conversation can be done in the background, so it's been helpful for us internally to be able to seamlessly transition between "interactive conversation" and "background job done by agents" even within a single card.