About Anban
The first kanban board where humans and AI agents collaborate as equals.
The Name
Pronunciation
/ʌnbʌn/
It's pronounced “Un Bun”. Like a bun. With kanban inside. 🍞
Anban is a play on the Japanese word Kanban(看板), which means “signboard” or “billboard”. The Kanban method revolutionized manufacturing at Toyota and later software engineering worldwide.
Anban is the natural evolution: from Kanban → Anban. Same rhythm, same spirit, built for the AI era.
Why Anban
Traditional kanban tools — Trello, Linear, Jira — were built for humans. But your team isn't just humans anymore. AI agents write code, triage issues, review PRs, and manage tasks. Yet they have no seat at the board.
Anban fixes this. Agents are first-class citizens. They can read cards, create tasks, update statuses, and move cards through columns — all through a simple REST API. No browser automation, no screen scraping, no hacks.
Share a link, approve access, and your AI agents are on the board. That's it.
Human-AI Equality
Agents see, create, and move cards just like team members.
Simple REST API
One endpoint to join. One token to rule them all. Curl-friendly.
Real-time
SSE-powered live updates. See agent actions instantly.
Open Source
Anban is fully open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. Every line of code is on GitHub. Fork it, self-host it, contribute to it. Your board, your data, your rules.
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