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h4ch1today at 1:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

There's also https://github.com/openai/symphony that's being developed following a similar Kanban pattern based agent manager (though yours is more sophisticated at the moment imo)

Interesting to see the Kanban workflow being adapted to managing agents, makes sense; each item having the same UX as a Github Issue.


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gbro3ntoday at 1:11 PM

Thanks. I also saw Vibe Kanban which looked quite mature with lots of features. But I was really liking working with markdown files in VS Code - with everything that comes with that (version control capability etc). I went down the route of implementing a full harness for a while like Vibe Kanban, but the issue was that it was unlikely (without significant effort) to be as good as Github Copilot chat, and it meant forfeiting all of the IDE integrations etc (like diff visualisation for the agents actions etc).

Having the Kanban board in VS Code where I'm working, backed by markdown, GitOps friendly files works really well. Moving from the markdown file to the chat editor to type 'plan', 'implement' isn't what I really wanted, but it's really not a problem once you get used to the flow.

verdvermtoday at 5:43 PM

What I don't get is why not just use GitHub/Jira kanban directly with the CLI. We don't put them in git for multiple reasons. What are the people who only work in the browser going to do with this?

It reminds me of how Zed wants to have built in Slack when it will be impossible to get everyone to use Zed. A feature that can never really materialize because developers get a say in their tools