Plandeck

The visual Kanban for long-running agentic work. Nobody wants to read a markdown plan or stare at raw HTML while an agent grinds for an hour. Plandeck turns your AI agent's plan into a live board that organizes itself: dependencies unlock into Ready, the critical path lights up in gold, estimates roll up, and the one next move is always obvious. It stays a plain file on disk underneath, so it survives /clear and a context reset.

npx skills add https://github.com/othmanadi/plandeck --skill plandeck

Zero dependencies, so there is nothing to install. Prefer a global plandeck command over node scripts/cli.mjs? Run npm link in the repo. A published npx plandeck release is planned.

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The problem

AI coding agents lose the thread. After a context compaction or a /clear, an agent drops half the TODO list and stops mid-task, or it picks up the wrong thing next because the plan never said what was actually blocked. Flat markdown plans make this worse: a checklist cannot express that card C003 needs C002 done first, so "what should I do now" stays ambiguous even in popular planning tools. The agent guesses. The guess is often wrong.

Plandeck is the fix. It turns the plan into a structured, queryable task graph. Dependencies are explicit. A ready-queue is computed, not guessed. There is exactly one unambiguous next move, and it survives a context reset because it lives in a file on disk.

Why it exists

Plandeck grows out of planning-with-files (OthmanAdi/planning-with-files, MIT), which gave crash-proof markdown plans that survive /clear plus a deterministic completion gate. Plandeck keeps that DNA (durable plans on disk, and a check command that only says COMPLETE when the work truly is) and adds the thing a wall of markdown can never give you: a live visual board with a brain.

That brain is a deterministic intelligence layer with no AI and no LLM anywhere in it. It is pure functions over YAML: given the cards, it computes the ready-queue, the critical path, the rollups, and the one next action. Because it is pure, it is fully testable, and it gives the same answer every time. The board server, the YAML reader, and the rendering are all Plandeck's own, with zero dependencies.

60-second Quickstart

# 1. Start the live board for the