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Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

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I keep wondering how people accept a nights worth of agent activity. I feel 30 minutes of planning and 30 minutes of implementation in my solo side project's repo is too big to review. At minute 5, I may ask the AI to redo stuff even as its spitting out code.

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Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

#122
One thing I don't understand with all of these, is how they're handling different worktree infrastructure spin-up?

For example, if I have a webapp, I want each of the worktrees to spin up its own infrastructure, and be accessible on its own unique local url, so that I can see the changes locally for each worktree, or I can have agents automate visual checks using something like agent-browser.

Currently I use docker for my infrastructure, each service running in its own container. I have a script that has a ./app worktree create worktreename. That creates a worktree as "worktreename" and spins up all of my docker infrastructure with prefixes for things like "WORKTREENAME", and I can access all my urls at worktreename.myapp.test (or just myapp.test for the main worktree).

This is working fine for now, but it'd be cool if one of these apps was compatible with this concept so I could move over to that.

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

#123

One thing I don't understand with all of these, is how they're handling different worktree infrastructure spin-up? For example, if I have a webapp, I want each of the worktrees to spin up its own infrastructure, and be accessible on its own unique local url, so that I can see the changes locally for each worktree, or I can have agents automate visual checks using something like agent-browser. Currently I use docker f…

Just use direnv? You’ll probably need to adjust the port you are hosting the local page on, but that’s just N=mod(hash based on the worktree name) and then port=default_port+N.

Tell your claude to set this up. Should do it in a single prompt

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

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post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People already barely reviewed code, most of it was imported libraries.

People keep saying this like it’s some meaningful point, but the reality is many people in different projects have a shared need for that code to work correctly, and there is a social proof involved in used open source libraries. That is why people look at downloads and dependent projects as heuristics of stability and correctness. That is not the case with (and cannot be obtained with) code authored by generative AI…

Yes it can, the code will be ran and you will have the proof that it ran well. Or it won't run well and you'll re-do it. Same as with some imported library.

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

#125

One thing I don't understand with all of these, is how they're handling different worktree infrastructure spin-up? For example, if I have a webapp, I want each of the worktrees to spin up its own infrastructure, and be accessible on its own unique local url, so that I can see the changes locally for each worktree, or I can have agents automate visual checks using something like agent-browser. Currently I use docker f…

I have this issue at work, I asked CC to create a very simple bun CLI tool that can be hard to create, destroy and list worktrees. The CLI seeds the .env file with a url, db for that worktree and I use Vercels open source package portless to spin up a dev server with unique ports so I get a url per worktree

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

#126
post #38

Personally, this is somewhat close to what I want. I want to have a fullblown cursor instance/window for each task I have, and a central Hub that manages spawning those instances, setting up the worktrees, etc. Cursor seems to pretty much have all the available tools there already (it can already spawn agents to their own worktrees with proper setup scripts, for example). I don't get why they don't do it and instead…

That's sorta how Agent of Empires and also Zed seem to operate—worktrees as a first class aspect of the workflow.

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

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post #110

I see a bunch of these orchestrators, but is anything out there jj (jujitsu) native? I would really like to avoid hacking onto an existing product.

If Jujutsu had become popular a couple of years earlier, it might have had a chance to catch on. I worry that it missed the most critical training window for AI and we may be locked in on Git forever.

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

#129

I keep wondering how people accept a nights worth of agent activity. I feel 30 minutes of planning and 30 minutes of implementation in my solo side project's repo is too big to review. At minute 5, I may ask the AI to redo stuff even as its spitting out code.

I understand and agree with the feeling but then I also feel AI is too slow and too expensive.

My most successful autonomous runs have been expanding scrapers across a number of similar but different portals. I had examples and targets and it just kept searching for new ones and adding them.

But even doing basic ML auto research k have found it to be surprisingly poor except at trivial but useful augmentation of models. Yes it can implement things but somehow I am required a lot even though I set up a lot of framework around it.

My mental model is that it's very good at complex deterministic work like reading bad API docs and getting some connectors to work.

But perhaps I care less about being stuck in a local optimum there.

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

#130

> "Local-first, zero servers. Everything lives in .kanbots/ next to your repo: SQLite database, configs, worktrees. No cloud account, no telemetry, no HTTP server. This is the open-source desktop edition." This is table-stakes for me to consider adoption of a tool like this.

what is a table-stake?

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