Kandev

Manage and run tasks in parallel. Orchestrate agents. Review changes. Ship value.

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What

Organize work across kanban and pipeline views with opinionated workflows and execute multiple tasks in parallel. Assign agents from any provider, and review their output in an integrated workspace - file editor, file tree, terminal, browser preview, and git changes in one place. Terminal agent TUIs are great for running agents, but reviewing and iterating on changes there doesn't scale.

Run it locally or self-host it on your own infrastructure and access it from anywhere via Tailscale or any VPN.

Open source, multi-provider, no telemetry, not tied to any cloud.

Vision

Humans stay in control. Define tasks, build agentic workflows with gates, review every change, decide what ships.

• Review-first - Humans support production systems. We need to understand (yet) and trust the code that gets deployed.
• Your workflow - Every team is different, and not every developer uses AI the same way. Define workflows once, share them across the team, and give everyone a consistent process for working with agents - regardless of experience level.
• Remote agents - Running multiple agents on a large codebase can quickly saturate a local machine. The goal is a single control plane: offload execution to servers, orchestrate from anywhere, including your phone.

Features

• Multi-agent support - Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Amp, Auggie, OpenCode, Cursor, Devin, Qwen, Factory Droid, iFlow, Kilocode, Pi, Kimi, AWS Kiro, Qoder, Trae, Oh My Pi
• Parallel task execution – start and manage multiple tasks from different sources simultaneously, boosting productivity with AI agents
• Integrated workspace - Built-in terminal, code editor with LSP, git changes panel, embedded vscode and chat in one IDE-like view
• Kanban task management - Drag-and-drop boards, columns, and workflow automation
• Agentic workflows - Multi-step pipelines that mix-and-match agents per step - for example, Claude Code Opus to design a plan, GitHub Copilot Sonnet to implement it, and Codex GPT 5.4 to review the changes. See docs/workflow-tips.md
• Sub-tasks - Agents can spawn sub-tasks that resume from the parent task's session. Useful for splitting a task that has grown too big, or producing several PRs from the same starting point.
• CLI passthrough - Drop into raw agent CLI mode for direct terminal interaction with any supported agent, leverage the full power of their TUIs
• Workspace isolation - Git worktrees prevent concurrent agents from conflicting
• Multi-repository tasks - Span a single task across multiple repositories, with one worktree per repo, per-repo branches, per-repo PRs, and per-repo grouping in the Changes panel and review dialog
• Flexible runtimes - Run agents as local processes, in isolated Docker containers, on remote servers via SSH, or in cloud executors like sprites.dev
• Runtime settings - Executor profiles, secrets, custom prompts, utility agents, voice mode, and resource metrics are configurable from Settings
• Task-agent MCP - Agents can create subtasks, target sibling repos, attach extra branches for multiple PRs, message other tasks, read conversations, and inspect related tasks
• External MCP - Manage Kandev from outside coding agents over streamable HTTP or SSE, with copyable config snippets for popular agent CLIs
• Workflow portability - Export and import workflows as portable YAML across workspaces or Kandev installs
• Session management - Resume and review agent conversations
• Shareable task snapshots - Publish redacted task conversation snapshots as secret GitHub Gists, with preview and revoke controls
• Stats - Track your productivity with stats on the completed tasks, agent turns, etc

See docs/features.md for the full feature inventory, including settings, secrets, custom prompts, and MCP task capabilities.

In progress: Office mode

We're working on Office mode, a feature-flagged autonomy layer for persistent agent teams. The direction is agent instances with roles and permissions, dashboards, inbox/approvals, routines, task delegation, skills, memory, cost tracking, budgets, and workspace config sync. We'll document Office as a supported feature after it is live.

Integrations

Connect Kandev to the tools your team already uses — pull issues into the kanban, link tasks to PRs, and surface review activity inline.

Supported ACP Agents

All agents communicate via ACP (Agent Client Protocol). Some agents support ACP natively, while others use ACP adapter packages that bridge their native protocols. CLI Passthrough mode is also available for direct terminal interaction with any agent CLI. If your agent isn't supported yet, open an issue or submit a PR with the integration. See Adding a New Agent CLI for a step-by-step guide.

Bring your own TUI agents

Kandev can run any agent CLI as a TUI inside a terminal, even when it does not speak ACP. Add the command in agent profile settings and the task starts that agent inside a PTY terminal. CLI passthrough keeps the agent's native terminal UX available while still giving Kandev task tracking, worktrees, review, and session management.

Supported Executors

Executors support profiles for reusable runtime configuration: prepare scripts, environment variables, credentials, and settings. Worktree-based tasks can also attach multiple repositories or multiple branches from the same repository, which lets one task produce several PRs when the work needs it.

Quick Start

Homebrew (macOS, Linux)

brew install kdlbs/kandev/kandev
kandev

NPX

npx kandev@latest

Requires npm 7+. Installs the CLI plus a platform-matched runtime bundle in one step.

NPM (global)

npm install -g kandev@latest
kandev

Updates

• brew upgrade kandev
• npx kandev@latest (always uses the latest published version)
• npm install -g kandev@latest

The worktrees and sqlite db live in ~/.kandev by default. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows (WSL or native).

From Source

# Clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:kdlbs/kandev.git
cd kandev

# Start in production mode
make start

Prerequisites: Go 1.26+, Node.js 18+, pnpm, Docker (optional - needed for container runtimes)

High level architecture

graph LR
    UI[Web UI] --> Backend


        Backend["Backend (Orchestrator)"]


    Backend --> W1 & W2 & W3 & W4

    subgraph W1[Local Process]
        Agent1[Agent CLI] --- WT1[Worktree]
    end

    subgraph W2[Docker Container]
        Agent2[Agent CLI] --- WT2[Worktree]
    end

    subgraph W3[SSH Remote]
        Agent3[Agent CLI] --- WT3[Worktree]
    end

    subgraph W4[Sprites Cloud]
        Agent4[Agent CLI] --- WT4[Worktree]
    end

We also want to add support for this remote runtime:

• K8s operator - run agents in a Kube