kanbot 0.2.3

A Kanban board where every card is a task run by your local CLI coding agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini, GLM/ZAI, or any CLI you define).

KanBot

A visual control room for your coding-agent TUIs — and a Kanban board where every card is a task run by them.

Live demo: https://getkanbot.vercel.app · Install: pipx install kanbot && kanbot up

You run a lot of terminal coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, …). KanBot gives you one screen to see what every session is doing, pick any of them back up, and drop new tasks that agents run for you — with live logs streamed straight to the card.

Two things in one board:

1. Track your TUIs. A background runner watches each agent's local session store and surfaces every session as a card: the project, the latest message, how many turns, how long it's been brewing, and whether it's working right now. Sessions flow by recency — working → Running, just-finished → Done, older → Backlog.
2. Run new tasks. Drop a card, pick an agent, and the runner executes it and streams stdout/stderr to the card. Or drag any tracked session into Running to resume it (claude --resume, codex exec resume).

 Backlog            Running            Review      Done
 (stale sessions    (sessions          (your       (recently
  + new tasks)       working now        finished    finished
                     + running tasks)   tasks)       sessions)
        │  drag → Running, or "Run", queues for a runner
        ▼
   ╔══════════════════════════════╗
   ║  kanbot runner (background)   ║  detects claude · codex · gemini · glm · shell
   ║  watches ~/.claude, ~/.codex  ║  executes & resumes, streams logs back
   ╚══════════════════════════════╝

Quickstart

Easiest (isolated, sidesteps Homebrew's PEP 668 externally-managed error):

pipx install kanbot && kanbot up     # or zero-install:  uvx kanbot up

From source (until it's on PyPI):

python3 -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
kanbot up                             # server + local runner, board at :8787

Don't use bare pip install on macOS Homebrew Python — it errors with externally-managed-environment (PEP 668). pipx/uv handle the env for you.

The board immediately fills with your recent Claude/Codex sessions. Click any one to see its recent transcript in a terminal view and resume it; or hit + add task to give an agent fresh work.

Run the pieces separately (e.g. runner on another machine):

kanbot server                                   # the board / API
kanbot runner --server http://HOST:8787 --name gpu-box

Tracking other agents (Hermes, OpenCode, your own…)

Claude Code and Codex are tracked out of the box. Any agent that logs newline-delimited JSON transcripts can be added with no code change — point KanBot at its store in ~/.kanbot/config.json:

{
  "discovery_sources": [
    {
      "name": "hermes",
      "label": "Hermes",
      "root": "~/.hermes/sessions",
      "pattern": "*.jsonl",
      "recursive": true,
      "fmt": "claude"
    }
  ]
}

• fmt: "claude" for flat records ({type, message, cwd, timestamp}) or "codex" for payload-nested records ({payload: {role, content, cwd}}).
• kanbot agents shows which trackers are active and where they read from.

Run agents

kanbot agents lists the CLIs detected on this machine. Built-in catalog:

agent	run	resume
claude	claude -p "<prompt>"	claude --resume <id> -p "<prompt>"
codex	codex exec --sandbox workspace-write "<prompt>"	codex exec resume <id> "<prompt>"
gemini	gemini -y -p "<prompt>"	—
glm	Claude Code w/ ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic	✓
opencode, aider, cursor-agent, hermes, shell	see kanbot/agents.py	—

Override or add any agent's command in ~/.kanbot/config.json → agent_overrides. A card set to auto runs on whatever the matched runner has.

Safety: by default agents run with auto-approve flags so tasks run unattended (Claude --dangerously-skip-permissions, Codex workspace-write). For safe mode — agents run without those flags (Codex read-only, Claude without skip-permissions) — start with kanbot up --safe or set it persistently with kanbot config --safe (--unsafe to revert). The runner shows a 🔒 safe badge on the board when safe mode is on.

Tags & insights

Tags are colored labels; a tag can also be an insight provider (◆) that pulls live context onto any card: git (branch/diff), files (recent changes), or a custom command (e.g. pytest -q).

CLI

kanbot up         server + local runner (best first run)
kanbot server     board / API only
kanbot runner     background runner only  (--server, --name, --concurrency)
kanbot agents     detected agents + active session trackers
kanbot config     server URL, token, runner name, enable/disable agents
kanbot open       open the board

Config: ~/.kanbot/config.json · data: ~/.kanbot/kanbot.db. Set KANBOT_TOKEN on the server to require a matching --token from runners.

License

MIT