Vibe Kanban, originally developed by Bloop AI, is an open-source orchestration harness and visual task board designed to manage and run multiple coding agents concurrently. The tool addresses the operational bottleneck where human engineers are left waiting on sequential agent execution by enabling parallel task dispatch across independent branches. The harness operates through a local web-based UI started via Node.js, coordinating underlying CLI coding agents and tools such as Claude Code, Aider, OpenCode, Amp, and Cursor. Developers break larger projects into issues and sub-issues, assign them to different agent backends, and prompt them to solve tasks in parallel. The orchestrator automatically creates isolated Git worktrees and executes project setup scripts for each active agent session. Unlike traditional single-session CLI agents that lock up the terminal, Vibe Kanban centralizes multiple running agents in one dashboard with integrated code review diffs, inline commenting, and an embedded browser to spin up dev servers for interactive QA. Statuses update automatically as agents initiate work, generate pull requests, or complete tasks. Vibe Kanban is transitioning from a hosted commercial offering to a fully open-source, community-maintained project hosted on GitHub.
Tags: agent harness, cli, code assistant, coding agent, developer tools, OpenSource