> "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.
If AI is agentic I would expect it takes an hour of chatting for any PM to integrate some agent Ralph loop with Jira. Jira or Trello or Linear or Basecamp all have APIs and I guess CLIs any agent can use to talk to them. No developer or SaaS should be needed to make them understand tasks are checked out when you start work and contain instructions and when you are done you move the ticket to DONE.
> No developer or SaaS should be needed to make them understand tasks are checked out when you start work and contain instructions and when you are done you move the ticket to DONE.
However jira, trello, linear and basecamp are all SaaS. Then when you create a ticket, what starts the agent? Linear has integrations however that either needs codex/github running things (another SaaS) or you need to do your own agent setup.
This is a replacement for jira/etc for a project, rather than an addon.
I didn't say I think this tool makes a ton of sense (let alone for me), just that any tool "like this" -- developed by someone else, which by design might become part of a workflow on which I rely -- has a minimum bar to clear before I'll even consider it.
From their page, they say they require cloud account login for this to work, even locally which is why I decided not to try it out. Looks cool tbh. But I have quite a few tools that look cool.
Maybe it works without it, but on their Getting Started this is what they are saying (which might be written by AI) and that is why I skipped even trying it.
The minimum required payment to play a gambling game, where the money up for grabs is called "stake". See also "raising the stakes". In context it means the minimum feature set to be considered for adoption.
same — that was an unexpected little moment on HN. Honestly appreciated the answer as it caused me to stop and examine the phrase I've been using/hearing without never really thinking about it.
This is table-stakes for me to consider adoption of a tool like this.