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AgentKanban for VS Code – A task board with agent harness integration

AgentKanban for VS Code – A task board with agent harness integration

by gbro3n·May 13, 2026·5 points·1 comment

AI Analysis

MidShip It

Saves Copilot chat history to tasks, but Linear and Jira are adding similar AI context.

Strengths
  • Captures specific chat turns and steering decisions directly to the task card.
  • Allows resuming sessions with curated context rather than bloated full transcripts.
  • Integrates git worktree isolation to keep coding environments clean per task.
Weaknesses
  • Tied heavily to GitHub Copilot; limited value if teams switch to Cursor or Claude.
  • Another project management layer when devs already live in Jira, Linear, or GitHub Issues.
Category
Target Audience

Developers using GitHub Copilot for complex feature work

Similar To

Linear · Jira · GitHub Issues

Post Description

Hi everyone. I wanted to introduce a tool / product that I've been working on for a while. It's a web application and VS Code extension for use with Github CoPilot (I'm planning to develop integration for other agent harnesses soon).

The web app and remote boards are at: https://www.agentkanban.io

The VS Code extension is at VS Code Marketplace (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=appsoftw...) or the Open VSX Registry (https://open-vsx.org/extension/appsoftwareltd/agent-kanban-v...).

The TLDR It's a collaborative Kanban board / task management app which supports hand off to Github CoPilot in VS Code, and captures the ongoing user / agent conversation context on the task for resumption in new chats (with context curation tools).

The context collection ignores tool use to prevent bloat in the captured context. AgentKanban also has features for improving agentic coding session quality such as an optional plan / todo / implement workflow and support for Git worktree creation and clean up for working on concurrent tasks.

The tool is an evolution of an earlier VS Code kanban extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AppSoftw...) I built which proved fairly popular but only catered for a local file based workflow.

The new version with the remote board improves the reliability of context capture, with lots of developer experience improvements. It's a tool that I use everyday in my own agentic coding workflows, and I can honestly say that it improves the quality of the code produced and reduces friction in organising working on concurrent features.

I hope you find it useful and would really appreciate your feedback on how you use it, what you think it does well, or any improvements you think could be added.

Many thanks for your time reading this

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