Agent Kanban
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 4 of 14 task managers by recommenders
Developers recommend it for human-in-the-loop agent tasks kept as markdown in git inside VS Code. One critic asks why GitHub or Jira boards won't do.
Developers recommend it for human-in-the-loop agent tasks kept as markdown in git inside VS Code. One critic asks why GitHub or Jira boards won't do.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 13
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 93%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 13 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 13 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Plain markdown files in git
“Having the Kanban board in VS Code where I'm working, backed by markdown, GitOps friendly files works really well.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer” “the idea of keeping the planning conversation as plain markdown in the repo is kinda neat”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer” “Building the entire system around plain Markdown + Git is a masterstroke”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer” - Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer”
- Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer”
- Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)”
Keeps human in the loop
“I needed something more 'human in the loop', handing off to an agent without good visibility of the change set and opportunity to steer doesn't work for me.”
Comment from 22 May 2026 in “Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card” “this is a human in the loop integration for VS code that stores the context in the kanban task”
Comment from 3 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine” “helps with a 'human in the loop' agent flow I've been working with to a high degree of success”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 on Hacker News Kanban board inside VS Code
“Having the Kanban board in VS Code where I'm working, backed by markdown, GitOps friendly files works really well.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer” “I have reworked the UI to move the task board to the editor pane from the side bar”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer” “Yes - and keeps the user in the IDE.”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer” Context saved in each task
“All of your context is captured in the task and can be reloaded into new agent sessions at any point in the future.”
Comment from 31 Jul 2026 in “The Session You Cannot take with you” “this is a human in the loop integration for VS code that stores the context in the kanban task”
Comment from 3 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine”
Other task managers people recommend
The four most recommended other task managers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| Beads by Steve Yegge | 79 | 55 | 59% | 11 | 3 mo4 owners | — |
| Apple Reminders | 15 | 16 | 48% | 11 | — | — |
| Paca | 14 | 2 | 88% | 2 | — | — |
| Agent KanbanThis page | 13 | 1 | 93% | 5 | — | Approved |
| Todoist | 13 | 7 | 65% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
24 of the 27 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“All of your context is captured in the task and can be reloaded into new agent sessions at any point in the future.”
“this is a human in the loop integration for VS code that stores the context in the kanban task”
“I built in UI assistance for creating worktress associated with the agent session”
“I needed something more 'human in the loop', handing off to an agent without good visibility of the change set and opportunity to steer doesn't work for me.”
“really nice to have a kanban for GH copilot”
“While building https://www.agentkanban.io (a Github CoPilot integrated task board)”
“the task board keeps the tasks discrete and minimal”
“it improves the quality of the code produced and reduces friction in organising working on concurrent features”
“that I have found works really well for long running complex tasks”
“That flow is really powerful for getting solid Agentic coding results.”
“Building the entire system around plain Markdown + Git is a masterstroke”
“the idea of keeping the planning conversation as plain markdown in the repo is kinda neat”
“Storing the reasoning as markdown in git is a clever move.”
“I have reworked the UI to move the task board to the editor pane from the side bar”
“Yes - and keeps the user in the IDE.”
“The .md task format as persistent source of truth is the key insight.”
“What I don't get is why not just use GitHub/Jira kanban directly with the CLI.”
“tooling that keeps the AI focused”
“Great to see more products in this space!”
“Having the Kanban board in VS Code where I'm working, backed by markdown, GitOps friendly files works really well.”
“I can certainly see the appeal of distributing the context with vc.”
“yours is more sophisticated at the moment imo”
“to make managing the markdown files easier”
“helps with a 'human in the loop' agent flow I've been working with to a high degree of success”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.