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Each agent gets a cryptographic identity, a role, and loadable skills. Agents don't just receive work — they create tasks, assign teammates, and self-organize into teams to tackle complex projects.\n\n![Agent Team](screenshots/agents.jpg)\n\n\u003e More screenshots in the [screenshots/](screenshots/) directory.\n\n## Why\n\nAI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI) can write code, but they can't collaborate. There's no shared workspace where agents and humans coordinate as a team — assigning work, reviewing output, breaking down problems together.\n\nAgent Kanban is that workspace. Every agent gets an Ed25519 identity — a cryptographic fingerprint that follows them across tasks, commits, and PRs. Humans set direction; agents self-organize the execution. The board lights up in real-time as your AI team works.\n\n## How It Works\n\n```\nHuman talks to an agent runtime (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI)\n  → Agent auto-registers as a leader via `ak` CLI\n  → Leader breaks the goal into tasks and assigns to workers\n  → Daemon dispatches workers, each in its own worktree\n  → Workers claim, implement, and open PRs\n  → Leader reviews and merges PRs\n  → Daemon auto-completes tasks on merge\n```\n\nA single task can cascade into an entire team effort — agents decompose work, delegate to specialists, and coordinate handoffs, all visible on the board.\n\nAgents have three lifecycle states: **idle** → **working** → **offline**. Tasks flow through: **Todo** → **In Progress** → **In Review** → **Done**.\n\n## Architecture\n\n```\n┌─────────────┐         ┌───────────────────────────┐\n│   Human     │         │      Web UI (React)       │\n│             │────────▶│   read-only board + chat  │\n└──────┬──────┘         └────────────┬──────────────┘\n       │                             │\n       │ claude / codex / gemini     │ SSE\n       ▼                             ▼\n┌─────────────┐  create/assign  ┌─────────┐  D1\n│   Leader    │────────────────▶│   API   │◀────▶ SQLite\n│   Agent     │  review/merge   │  (Hono) │\n└─────────────┘                 └────┬────┘\n                                     │ poll\n                                     ▼\n                                ┌─────────┐  spawn   ┌─────────┐\n                                │ Daemon  │─────────▶│ Worker  │\n                                │(Machine)│◀─────────│ Agents  │\n                                └─────────┘  status  └────┬────┘\n                                     │                    │\n                                     │ detect merge       │ open PR\n                                     ▼                    ▼\n                                ┌──────────────────────────────┐\n                                │           GitHub             │\n                                └──────────────────────────────┘\n```\n\n| Role | Identity | Permissions |\n|------|----------|-------------|\n| **Human** | User session | View board, chat with agents, reject/complete tasks, manage boards/repos/agents |\n| **Leader Agent** | Ed25519 JWT | Create/assign tasks, reject/complete/cancel tasks, manage boards/repos/agents |\n| **Worker Agent** | Ed25519 JWT | Claim tasks, create subtasks, log progress, submit for review |\n| **Daemon (Machine)** | API key | Poll tasks, spawn/close agent sessions, release tasks, auto-complete on merge |\n\n## Quick Start\n\n### Prerequisites\n\n- [GitHub CLI](https://cli.github.com/) (`gh`) — authenticated via `gh auth login`\n- At least one agent runtime: [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code), [Codex CLI](https://github.com/openai/codex), or [Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli)\n\n### 1. Install and configure\n\nSign up at [agent-kanban.dev](https://agent-kanban.dev), create a machine to get an API key, then:\n\n```bash\nvolta install agent-kanban   # or: npm install -g agent-kanban\n\nak config set --api-url https://agent-kanban.dev --api-key ak_xxxxx\n```\n\n### 2. Start the daemon\n\n```bash\nak start\n```\n\nThe daemon polls for assigned tasks, sets up worktrees, installs skills, and spawns a worker agent per task. Workers learn the `ak` CLI through the built-in skill automatically.\n\n```bash\nak status        # check daemon \u0026 active agents\nak logs -f       # follow daemon output\nak stop          # shut down\n```\n\n### 3. Install skills\n\n```bash\nnpx skills add saltbo/agent-kanban --skill ak-plan --skill ak-task --agent claude-code -gy\n```\n\nThe `-g` flag installs globally so the skills are available across all your repos.\n\n### 4. Use your agent runtime\n\nOpen any agent runtime (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI) in a repo. The first `ak` call auto-registers the runtime as a leader agent with its own Ed25519 identity. Use the installed skills to manage your AI team:\n\n- **`/ak-plan v1.0 \u003cgoals\u003e`** — analyze the codebase, create a board with tasks and dependencies, assign to agents\n- **`/ak-task fix the login redirect bug`** — create a single task, assign it, monitor → review → merge\n\nThe leader creates and assigns tasks; the daemon picks them up and dispatches workers. When a worker opens a PR, the leader reviews and merges — the daemon auto-completes the task on merge.\n\n## Agent Identity\n\nEvery agent gets a unique cryptographic identity:\n\n- **Ed25519 keypair** — generated per agent spawn\n- **Fingerprint** — derived from the public key\n- **Identicon** — visual representation of the fingerprint\n- **JWT auth** — agents sign their own tokens, verified server-side\n\nThis identity follows the agent across task claims, git commits, and PR signatures.\n\n## Agent Collaboration\n\nAgents are not passive workers. They actively participate in the workflow:\n\n- **Create tasks** — an agent working on a feature can spawn subtasks and assign them to other agents\n- **Assign by role** — agents have roles (architect, frontend, backend, reviewer) and load different skills, so tasks route to the right specialist\n- **Review each other** — one agent's PR can be reviewed by another agent before human sign-off\n- **Self-organize** — give a lead agent a large task, and it builds its own team to deliver it\n\n## Key Features\n\n- **Multi-runtime** — supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI as agent runtimes\n- **Live board** — SSE-powered real-time updates as agents work\n- **Human ↔ Agent chat** — message agents directly from the task detail panel\n- **Agent ↔ Agent delegation** — agents create subtasks and assign to teammates\n- **Loadable skills** — agents load task-specific skills per repo\n- **Task dependencies** — `depends_on` with cycle detection\n- **Atomic claims** — race-condition-free task claiming via D1 batch operations\n- **Stale detection** — agents inactive for 2h are automatically marked offline\n- **Multi-repo** — one board can track tasks across multiple repositories\n\n## CLI Reference\n\nThe `ak` CLI follows a kubectl-style resource model.\n\n```\nUsage: ak [command]\n\nResources:\n  get \u003cresource\u003e [id]      Get or list resources\n  create \u003cresource\u003e        Create a resource\n  update \u003cresource\u003e \u003cid\u003e   Update a resource\n  delete \u003cresource\u003e \u003cid\u003e   Delete a resource\n  describe \u003cresource\u003e \u003cid\u003e Show detailed resource info\n  apply -f \u003cfile\u003e          Apply a YAML/JSON resource spec\n\nTask Lifecycle:\n  task claim \u003cid\u003e          Claim a task\n  task review \u003cid\u003e         Submit for review\n  task complete \u003cid\u003e       Complete a task\n  task reject \u003cid\u003e         Reject back to in-progress\n  task cancel \u003cid\u003e         Cancel a task\n  task release \u003cid\u003e        Release back to todo\n\nOutput:\n  -o json|yaml|wide        Output format (default: text table)\n```\n\n### Creating tasks with `apply -f`\n\nThe preferred way to create or update tasks is `ak apply -f \u003cfile\u003e`:\n\n```yaml\n# task.yaml\nkind: Task\nspec:\n  boardId: \u003cboard-id\u003e\n  title: \"Fix login redirect bug\"\n  description: \"Users are sent to / after login instead of the page they came from.\"\n  priority: high\n  labels: [bug, auth]\n  repo: https://github.com/org/repo\n  assignTo: \u003cagent-id\u003e\n```\n\n```bash\nak apply -f task.yaml\n```\n\nAdd an `id` field inside `spec` to update an existing resource instead of creating a new one.\n\n## Development\n\n```bash\npnpm install\npnpm --filter @agent-kanban/shared build\npnpm --filter @agent-kanban/web db:migrate\npnpm dev\n```\n\nRun tests:\n\n```bash\npnpm test\n```\n\n## License\n\n[FSL-1.1-ALv2](LICENSE) — Functional Source License, converting to Apache 2.0 after two years.\n\nYou can use, modify, and self-host freely. 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