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

# KanBots — a kanban that runs parallel agents Source: [https://www.kanbots.dev/](https://www.kanbots.dev/) [kanbots](https://www.kanbots.dev/)[leodavinci1/kanbots](https://github.com/leodavinci1/kanbots)[Download](https://github.com/leodavinci1/kanbots/releases/latest) [v1\.0 · MIT licensed·Open source on GitHub](https://github.com/leodavinci1/kanbots) ## A kanban that runsparallel agentson every card\. Drop a folder\. Get a board\. Dispatch Claude Code or Codex agents on as many cards as you want — each in its own worktree\. Or hit autopilot and let personas split the work, run in parallel, and check their own output while you sleep\. [Download desktopmacOS · Linux · Windows](https://github.com/leodavinci1/kanbots/releases/latest)[See cloud for teams](https://www.kanbots.dev/pricing) Free forever · Pay\-what\-you\-can donations · MIT licensed 2 CLIs supported Claude Code · Codex 0 bytes leave your machine MIT license · free forever Two products on purpose ## Solo on a laptop, ora team that ships together\. Same kanban metaphor\. Same agent runtime\. Different scale of collaboration\. Both are legitimate paths\. Every Cloud\-only feature requires either*another person*or*another device*in the picture\. None of them help a solo user on one machine — so we don't gate them\. OSS is what one person does on their machine; Cloud is what a team does together\. Plays nice ## Plays nice withthe tools you already use\. Capabilities ## Built for the way agentsactually ship\. Not a chat tab\. A board\. Eight features that turn AI agents from a curiosity into a system of record\. ### Parallel agents on the board Dispatch on as many cards as you want; each agent runs in its own git worktree on a kanbots/issue\-N branch\. The board updates live as runs progress, decisions surface, costs accrue\. ### Autopilot — self\-evolving feature dev Plug in personas — product, engineer, reviewer, tester — and a parallelism count up to 4\. The orchestrator round\-robins through personas, splits parent issues into subtasks, and evolves the backlog as agents discover work\. Personas spawn personas\. ### Decision prompts you actually answer Agents pause and ask\. You click an option; the run continues\. Numbered shortcuts, edit\-and\-resubmit, slash commands like /spec, /review, /split\. Reviewable decisions, not silent tree mutations\. ### Bring your own CLI Claude Code or Codex\. Same board, same worktrees, same decision UI — kanbots speaks both stream formats behind a single AgentCliAdapter\. Use your existing claude /login or OPENAI\_API\_KEY\. ### Local\-first, zero servers Everything lives in \.kanbots/ next to your repo: SQLite database, configs, worktrees\. No cloud account, no telemetry, no HTTP server\. Your code never leaves the machine\. ### Cost analytics, live Per\-run, per\-card, per\-project rollups\. Watch the cost meter accrue as agents work\. Set per\-run and per\-session caps; runs stop on cost\-budget\. No surprise bills\. ### GitHub mode \+ draft PRs Drive real GitHub issues with your personal PAT\. Promote a worktree to a commit, or open a draft PR with one click\. A pre\-push hook means agents never publish on their own\. ### MCP server included kanbots\-mcp\-server exposes the board over the Model Context Protocol so Cursor, Claude Desktop, or anything MCP\-aware can drive it\. The board becomes a first\-class tool for your other agents\. Inside the app ## Every surface,designed for the loop\. Not just a wrapper around a CLI\. A full UI for dispatching, reviewing, splitting, and shipping agent work\. AUTOPILOT ### Pick personas\. Set parallelism\. Walk away\. Up to 4 parallel slots round\-robin through your roster\. Each slot atomically claims the next persona; agents split parents into subtasks as they go\. Stops on completion or session budget\. DECISIONS ### Decisions, not silent mutations\. Live thread streams every tool\_use and tool\_result\. When the agent needs a call, the run pauses with numbered options\. Reply box accepts slash commands: /spec, /review, /split\. PERSONAS ### Personas as first\-class lenses\. A persona is a named system prompt snippet\. Built\-ins ship with the app; New persona lets you write your own — save, reuse forever\. Custom personas stay on your machine\. PROVIDERS ### Bring your own CLI\. Claude Code or Codex behind one AgentCliAdapter\. Reuse your existing claude /login or codex login — no extra account, no extra key management\. Switch per dispatch\. TASKS ### Spec first\. Or dispatch immediately\. Bug fix · Feature · Refactor · Review · Spike templates\. Three start modes: spec\-first \(run /spec, await approval\), create\-and\-dispatch, or queue\-for\-later\. Title becomes branch \+ PR title\. CHAT ### Talk to the workspace\. Ask anything — "which routes don't have rate limiting?", "where do we use the old auth helper?"\. A general\-purpose agent that knows your repo, your tests, and your git state\. Autopilot ## Personasspawn personas\. The backlog evolves itself\. Hand kanbots an issue and a budget\. The orchestrator round\-robins through a roster of personas, runs up to four slots in parallel, splits parent issues into subtasks, and keeps cycling until the work converges or the cost cap hits\. 1. 01#### Pick a roster Built\-in personas ship with kanbots; or write your own — define the system prompt, save, reuse forever\. Custom personas never leave your machine\. 2. 02#### Set parallelism \(1–4\) Each slot atomically claims the next persona via a round\-robin counter\. Four agents, four lenses, four worktrees — at the same time\. 3. 03#### Personas split work As agents discover work, they file new cards on the board\. Later cycles pick those up\. The backlog grows and shrinks under the orchestrator\. 4. 04#### Stop on budget or completion Per\-session cost budget caps total spend\. Stop button kills the parent and all children\. In\-flight runs finish their iteration cleanly\. QA mode Run typecheck / tests / lint / build / e2e in the worktree\. Optionally start your dev server and watch it\. For every failing check, dispatch a fix run on a derived child issue\. Repeat until green\. tsctestslintbuilde2e