Thanks. I also saw Vibe Kanban which looked quite mature with lots of features. But I was really liking working with markdown files in VS Code - with everything that comes with that (version control capability etc). I went down the route of implementing a full harness for a while like Vibe Kanban, but the issue was that it was unlikely (without significant effort) to be as good as Github Copilot chat, and it meant forfeiting all of the IDE integrations etc (like diff visualisation for the agents actions etc).

Having the Kanban board in VS Code where I'm working, backed by markdown, GitOps friendly files works really well. Moving from the markdown file to the chat editor to type 'plan', 'implement' isn't what I really wanted, but it's really not a problem once you get used to the flow.

I did - GitHub and Trello (and I expect Jira) have APIs that could be used to hook up an MCP server. I liked the idea of conversing with the agent in the ticket, but I decided against that because I'd have to keep refreshing the issues, and it seemed a bit janky moving in and out of the IDE.

I also considered a full harness that could stream / sync the responses, but as per my comment below, implementing a full harness meant loosing a lot of the IDE integration features that come with the hand off to GitHub Copilot.

> I went down the route of implementing a full harness for a while like Vibe Kanban, but the issue was that it was unlikely (without significant effort) to be as good as Github Copilot chat, and it meant forfeiting all of the IDE integrations etc (like diff visualisation for the agents actions etc).

Having worked with a flow similar to this for a while - the markdown files become quite valuable as a history of planning and decisions for features. I didn't want to loose that. I just needed some help with managing the plan files I was maintaining - which the kanban board tooling does. A few command shortcuts via @kanban help too

Regarding what goes into the files, the agent tends to be quite concise - you don't see the whole train of thought that some of the harnesses surface.

Maybe it will go that way eventually. I haven't got into being able to hand off to agents in the cloud yet, I think as good as LLMs are getting, for complex / professional work the agents still need a lot of steering. I just have to be in the editor with the agent!

That's a nice UI on that board. It's advertising the ability to allow the agent to help manage tasks, where this approach uses the tasks to drive the agent.

I would say that a kanban board is not synonymous with scrum. In this workflow, the tasks are a way of organising task threads and recording the consideration, decisions and actions taken while working with an AI agent.

Agreed. Also multiple humans. One task per person works great (no Git conflicts). I'll think about this more. I'm thinking that having the agent work through an MCP server might be a means of mitigating the issue. I'd rather keep the sync process in Git if I can.