Vibe Kanban — Overview
Vibe Kanban is an orchestration and UI layer designed for modern AI-assisted development workflows where coding agents produce code and human engineers focus on planning, review and orchestration. It provides a kanban-style interface to manage agent-generated tasks, switch between coding agents, run or preview results, and integrate remote development via SSH.
Key features
- Switch between multiple coding agents easily (supports Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Amp, and others).
- Orchestrate agent execution in parallel or in sequence to build multi-step workflows.
- Track status of tasks the agents are working on using a kanban board and centralized task metadata.
- Quick review and feedback loop: inspect agent outputs and start dev servers to test generated code.
- Centralized management of coding-agent MCP (Multi-Client Provider) configs for consistent agent settings.
- Remote server support: run Vibe Kanban on a remote host and open projects locally via SSH (integration with VS Code Remote-SSH).
Supported integrations & agents
Vibe Kanban is built to be agent-agnostic and integrates with multiple coding agents and provider CLIs. The README highlights support for popular coding agents and a plugin-like approach to swap or add providers. It also exposes configuration options and environment variables to customize analytics, ports, and host behavior.
Installation & quick start
- Quick run (no install):
npx vibe-kanban- Full install and development:
- Prerequisites: Rust (latest stable), Node.js >= 18, pnpm >= 8
- Install deps:
pnpm i - Run dev server:
pnpm run dev - Build frontend:
cd frontend && pnpm build
Deployment & remote usage
Vibe Kanban can run on local or remote servers. For remote deployments you can expose the web UI with Cloudflare Tunnel, ngrok, or similar, and configure Editor Integration to open projects over SSH. The app generates vscode:// URLs that open the user's local VS Code using the Remote-SSH protocol when configured.
Configuration
The project supports a number of build-time and runtime environment variables (e.g., POSTHOG_API_KEY, PORT, BACKEND_PORT, FRONTEND_PORT, HOST) to control analytics, ports and host settings. There are options to disable certain git cleanup behaviors for debugging.
For developers
The repository contains tooling and scripts to build an npx package, run a development backend and frontend, and seed a dev database. Extra dev tools suggested include cargo-watch and sqlx-cli for Rust backend development.
Why use Vibe Kanban
If your team relies on multiple AI coding agents and needs a lightweight orchestration and review layer — enabling parallel agent runs, clear task tracking, and remote development flows — Vibe Kanban provides a purpose-built UI and workflow integrations to accelerate that process.
Documentation & community
Primary docs and user guides are hosted on the project website (https://www.vibekanban.com/docs). The project uses GitHub Discussions for feature requests and issues for bugs. The repository includes a public README with screenshots, install steps and developer guidance.
