ck:plans-kanban

The Kanban dashboard tracks plan progress and phases, while the Gantt chart visualizes project timelines, task durations, and dependencies. This combination improves project visibility for complex, multi-phase workflows directly from your markdown files.

You need Node.js installed to run the local server. The server script initializes a visualization interface by reading your plans directory, applying gray-matter to parse YAML frontmatter, and serving the Kanban and Gantt UI components in your browser.

This approach uses a local Node.js server and gray-matter for frontmatter parsing, which differs from cloud-based project management tools. It keeps your plan tracking entirely local within your markdown files, ensuring data ownership and seamless integration with existing markdown-based workflows.

Visualization requires plan.md files structured with valid YAML frontmatter containing project phases, timelines, and dependencies. If the frontmatter is missing or incorrectly formatted, gray-matter cannot parse the metadata, which prevents the server from rendering the Kanban board and Gantt chart accurately.