Cline turns terminal chaos into a Kanban board for AI agents

Cline Kanban is a free, open-source local web app designed to run and orchestrate multiple CLI coding agents in parallel across your Git repository.

It takes the messy reality of running AI agents from the command line and turns it into a clean, visual workflow.

What it does

If you use coding agents daily, you already know the morning routine. You spin up an agent to refactor authentication, another to write tests, and a third to scaffold API endpoints. Within an hour, you are staring at twenty open terminal windows.

One agent finished forty minutes ago and you never noticed. Another is blocked waiting for your input. A third went down a rabbit hole three commits back. Switching between windows drains your cognitive bandwidth, forcing you to reload the full context in your head every single time.

Cline Kanban replaces that terminal sprawl with a live project board. Every card on the board represents an active agent task. Right now, it works out of the box with Claude Code, Codex, and Cline CLI, with support for more agents coming soon.

At a glance, you can see what is running, what is finished, and what needs your attention. It also supports native dependency linking from day one. You can connect tasks together so when a database migration finishes, the dependent API test task automatically kicks off, turning isolated terminal runs into an automated pipeline.

How it works

Running multiple agents in parallel usually invites Git merge chaos. Cline Kanban solves this cleanly at the file-system level.

Each task card gets its own isolated terminal session and its own dedicated Git worktree. Agents never overwrite each other's changes or produce conflicts on disk, because they literally operate in separate working trees.

Cline has always stayed model-agnostic, and now Kanban takes an agent-agnostic approach. It is not trying to lock you into the Cline harness; it simply acts as an orchestrator sitting on top of whatever CLI tools you already prefer.

Getting started takes zero complicated configuration. You can install it locally right now by running npm i -g cline.

Why it matters

In 2026, the real bottleneck in software engineering is no longer how smart the model is, but how many things a human developer can track at once.

Babysitting a dozen terminal windows creates an exhausting attention tax. By leveraging native Git worktrees and a simple dependency board, Cline Kanban transforms chaotic multi-agent experimentation into an organized production assembly line.

If you find yourself running multiple Claude Code or Codex instances every day, this is an instant install. It gives you back your focus without forcing you to change the underlying agents you trust.