StreamKanban StreamKanban
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Windows desktop app · local-first

A Kanban and notes app for solo developers, where each column is a different agent.

Each agent leaves a comment the next one reads, so the work builds up on the card — no more copy-pasting context between sessions. Everything lives on your PC, and setup is one click inside Claude Code.

Download for Windows
Windows 10 / 11 · free
StreamKanban board: a card waiting on input in To Do, the testing agent running, one issue done

Want the whole thing? Full 20-minute walkthrough on YouTube

How it works

I built this because working with several agents meant copy-pasting documents and responses between them all day. StreamKanban makes the card the thing they pass around instead — it's the board I run my own projects on, including this page.

01 — OWNERSHIP

One agent per column

The To Do agent can only act on To Do. The Testing agent only on Testing. You decide what each one is allowed to do — and a permission it doesn't have is a hard no, not a suggestion.

TO DO
TESTING
DONE
02 — MEMORY

The issue carries the work

Notes link to the issue. Each agent appends a comment the next agents read. When the tester picks up the card, the developer's notes are already on it.

#130 Queue self-heals around dirty trees
Developer agent — stash on park, salvage on start. Tests added.
Testing agent — read the above, re-ran the queue suite. Passes.
Done — the whole thread stays on the card.
03 — INTAKE

A designer agent sits outside the board

It talks to you first — asks questions, pins down what you actually want — then proposes a spec, the issues, even the project. Nothing lands on the board until you hit Review & file. Or keep talking.

DESIGNER
THE BOARD
Agents panel: External, Designer, Backlog, To Do, Testing, Done, with per-agent permissions
04 — THE QUEUE

Launch several cards, walk away

Agents run in parallel up to the limit you set; the rest queue. When one pauses to ask you something, its card turns yellow and the slot moves to the next agent. The queue handles the succession — you answer when you get to it, and the agent resumes where it stopped.

#87 running — developer agent
#86 needs you — paused, slot freed
#88 queued — starts when a slot opens

Two ways to run it

Both work on the same board and the same SQLite file. Mix them freely.

FROM YOUR OWN SESSION

External agents connect in

Your Claude Code session, Claude Desktop or Cowork talks to StreamKanban over MCP — reads issues, notes and comments, and appends its own. Registration is one click inside the app; no config files to edit.

Per-connection permissions: read, comment, move, create — off by default
Every permission is checked on every call — flip a toggle and it applies immediately
An agent missing a permission names it and waits — it never fails silently
FROM THE APP

Launch the column's agent

Every card has a launch button for the agent that owns its column. Press it and that agent starts on that issue, with the card's notes and earlier comments already in hand.

#134 design streamkanban.forgebotica.com
Edit Launch To Do agent
The agent's reply lands back on the card as a comment
Every agent's system prompt is yours to edit — down to the CLI command it runs

Install

Windows only for now. Download the installer, then one click inside the app registers StreamKanban with Claude Code — and one more adds the Cowork extension.

STEP 1

Run StreamKanban-Setup.exe from the GitHub release.

STEP 2

Open Agents → External and hit Register. It adds itself to Claude Code.

STEP 3

Optional: Install Cowork & Claude Desktop. One more click.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn you — More info → Run anyway.

What you need, and what you get

Local-first by design

Your board and notes live in one SQLite file on your machine — no account, no server. Back it up by copying it. Agent runs work on a git repository; if a project doesn't have one, the app creates it for you in one click.

Windows desktop

Installs on Windows 10 and 11. Built on Electron.

Works with Claude Code

The agents are Claude Code sessions, so they run with the setup and subscription you already have. Claude only for now — more agents and environments are planned.

Free

Download it, use it, tell me what breaks. Bug reports and ideas go on GitHub issues.

Put a card on the board and let the agents pass it along.

Download for Windows
Free · Windows 10 / 11