game-of-cards 0.0.4

Agile for the age of agents: repo-native backlog cards for human and AI contributors.

Game of Cards

Agile for the age of agents — turn work into durable, inspectable cards that humans and LLMs can collaborate on.

Try it

In any repo, ask your coding agent:

look at game-of-cards.com and use the method for development here

That's it. Bootstrapping flows from the PyPI package game-of-cards. If you'd rather drive the install by hand, see goc.md for the manual recipe and CLI reference.

How it works

You speak in plain English. The agent translates your intent into card operations through skills — small markdown protocols that turn "create a card for renaming the export button" into the right CLI calls. goc is the CLI that implements those operations. Cards are markdown directories under deck/ with frontmatter, an append-only log, and a Definition-of-Done checklist the CLI refuses to close while any box is unchecked.

Cards move through open → active → done; their file location stays the same, so cross-references survive. Agents only work on cards without a human gate. Others are parked, waiting on decisions or full sessions with you. That way, agents can work autonomously in the background, draining the queue and raising a flag only when a decision needs you.

Status

Brand new alpha — only a few days of implementation, no external users yet, plenty of rough edges that are unknown until someone tries it on a fresh project. The right way to find out if it's for you is to install it, point it at a side project, and see whether it stays out of your way for a week.

More

• goc.md — CLI reference and manual install recipe.
• ABOUT.md — methodology context: why "Game of Cards", agile lineage, and how it relates to other agent-coding tools.
• AGENTS.md — agent operating modes (session / autonomous / Andon-cord).
• GitHub repo — source, issues, contributions.

License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Zauberzeug GmbH. See LICENSE.