vibe-kanban

You can track agent tasks on a kanban board by organizing them with structured statuses like todo, inprogress, inreview, done, and cancelled. This provides a single source of truth for current work, enabling heartbeat checks and standup summaries to keep stakeholders aligned.

A heartbeat check in task management refreshes your current workload by scanning the centralized task board for urgent work and @mentions. You need it to surface reallocate resources and ensure continuous alignment across agents.

Scanning for @mentions assigns tasks by detecting mentions across the kanban board and surfacing urgent work for reallocation. This structured workflow ensures agents claim and update tasks efficiently, reducing coordination costs.

Vibe-kanban supports a CLI-based workflow implementing a structured task lifecycle for accessing and updating the board. It manages task statuses from todo to done, providing a centralized source of truth for tracking agent progress.

Using a centralized task board reduces coordination costs across multiple agents by providing a shared source of truth to view, claim, update, and complete work. This ensures alignment and allows teams to reallocate resources dynamically via heartbeat checks.

Limitations of using a kanban board for agent task tracking include relying on manual status updates across the lifecycle. If agents fail to update task statuses accurately, the heartbeat checks and @mentions scanning cannot effectively surface urgent work or reallocate resources.