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New comment by santopol in "Show HN: Kanban-md – File-based CLI Kanban built for local agents collaboration"

santopol — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:46:50 +0000

thanks for the feedback -- sometimes it is hard to see these kinds of gaps from the inside :) I added a section "How to use it" to the Readme: https://github.com/antopolskiy/kanban-md?tab=readme-ov-file#...

New comment by santopol in "Show HN: Kanban-md – File-based CLI Kanban built for local agents collaboration"

santopol — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:52:00 +0000

Thanks! I feel like plain text ecosystem got a big push with AI agents, and I very happy about it. Before I had to convince my friends to switch from Notion to Obsidian, now it is a no-brainer.

Show HN: Kanban-md – File-based CLI Kanban built for local agents collaboration

santopol — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:14:27 +0000

I built kanban-md because I wanted a simple local task tracker that works well for the agent loop: drop tasks in, run multiple agents in parallel, avoid collisions, and observe progress easily.

Tasks are just Markdown files (with YAML frontmatter) in a `kanban/` next to your code — no server, no DB, no API tokens. Simple, transparent, future-proof.

What makes it useful for multi-agent workflows:

- *Atomic `pick --claim`* so two agents don’t grab the same task.

- *Token-efficient `--compact` output* (one-line-per-task) for cheap polling in agent loops.

- *Skills included* -- just run `kanban-md skill install --global`; There is a skill for CLI use, and a skill for the development loop using the CLI (might need some additional work to be more general though, but works quite well)

- *Live TUI (`kanban-md-tui`)* for control ~~and dopamine hits~~.

I'd love feedback from anyone running multi-agent coding workflows (especially around claim semantics, dependencies, and what makes you feel in control).

I had a blast using it myself for the last few days.

Tech stack: Go, Cobra, Bubbletea (TUI), fsnotify (file watching). ~85% test coverage across unit + e2e tests. After developing webapps, the simplicity of testing CLI and TUI was so freeing.

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New comment by santopol in "It’s time to allow researchers to submit manuscripts to multiple journals"

santopol — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 07:24:28 +0000

As someone who knows Alexandra personally and follows her work for a very long time, I must warn you that, despite creating an awesome tool, in my opinion (and the opinion of a lot of scientists who were in communication with her) she is not a sensible person at all. She is a lot into pseudoscience (e.g. astrology) and very radical political views (she's a Stalinist), and she's got a strange mix of mysogyny and radical feminism going on. She is very open about it on public Scihub channels. At least this was the situation a year or so ago.

New comment by santopol in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

santopol — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:14:40 +0000

"I haven't "left Twitter." I just don't want to keep using it while it's banning links to other sites. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn more about Mastodon."

https://mas.to/@paulg/109536542792559441

New comment by santopol in "Promotion of alternative social platforms policy"

santopol — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:13:52 +0000

"I haven't "left Twitter." I just don't want to keep using it while it's banning links to other sites. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn more about Mastodon."

https://mas.to/@paulg/109536542792559441