AI4Kanban documentation
A project board your coding agent drives. Write the goal, then say what you want in plain language — the board decides what happens next.
Updated September 4, 2026
Install the board
The board is a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, and there is nothing to
install before it. Download it, open your project, and the board is a
folder of Markdown in docs/kanban/ — versioned in git, readable by you and by
your agent.
Prefer a terminal? npm install -g ai4kanban@latest, then akb install in the
project you want a board for.
One repository can hold more than one board: akb install --board marketing/kanban
puts a second one anywhere you like. A board away from docs/kanban is named rather
than found, so pass --board <dir> on any command, or set AI4KANBAN_BOARD — a
command typed inside the board folder finds it. In the app the folder chip says which
board you are on, and switches between them.
Read these first
The one file the board asks you to write. Every proposal it makes is judged against it, so what you put there decides what gets suggested next.
The rhythm once the board exists — what to say to pick work, refine a card and build it, and which button does the same thing.
Then pick your tooling
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Kimi Code, DeepSeek Harness, ZCode and Grok Build all do the work. What differs is what they report back, and what a run may touch.
Ready-made recurring tasks you add to your board in one prompt — memory pruning, competitor analysis, and more.
Where the rest lives
The commands are their own reference: akb --help lists them, akb <noun>
lists that noun's verbs, and akb raw help the bookkeeping ones. This site says
what to say, not what to type.
The flows themselves — how a card is refined, what goes into memory, how a
release is planned — ship with the command rather than with this site, so
akb update upgrades them all at once. akb guide lists them, and
akb guide board is how the board works at all.
The board app's own reference — what every column, panel, button and setting does
— is kanban-ui/README.md in the repository.