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It's a Plan – issue tracker where people and AI agents ship together

It's a Plan launched as an open source, AGPL-3.0 issue tracker that treats AI agents as teammates, positioning itself as a self-hosted alternative to Linear, Jira, and Plane with no per-seat fees and bring-your-own model keys. The tracker lets teams assign issues to agents or mention them in comments, with agents replying in threads, opening linked issues, and moving cards on a shared board, and it supports both hosted agents configured with a model, skills, and tools and external agents that run with a checked-out repository. The project drives automation through a REST API and MCP and lists features including cycles and sprints, saved filters per board view, issue templates, CSV backlog import, cron-scheduled agent runs, scoped API tokens, and signed webhooks with retries.

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It's a Plan – issue tracker where people and AI agents ship together
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Open sourceSee how it compares to Linear

and AI agents ship together.

It's a Plan is the open source alternative to Linear, Jira, and Plane. Project management for any team, on your own server, with AI agents as teammates.

AGPL-3.0 · No per-seat fees · Bring your own model keys

Bulk-edit issues from the board

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 11

Saved filters per board view

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 11

Issue templates

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 11

Cycles and sprints

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 11

Import a backlog from CSV

Created Jul 10 · Updated Jul 10

Let agents pick up delegated issues

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 14

Collections for saved views

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 14

MV Live board refresh on rev change

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 14

Inbox digest for mentions

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 14

LP Notes canvas autosave

Created Jul 12 · Updated Jul 14

Schedule agent runs by cron

Created Jul 12 · Updated Jul 14

Custom fields per issue type

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 12

SI Per-project role & permission matrix

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 12

DO Signed webhooks with retries

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 12

Scoped API tokens

Created Jul 11 · Updated Jul 12

Built on tools you already trust

Keep control of your stack

Run it on your own server, database, and model. Your data stays with you. No per-seat fees.

Agents that work like teammates

Give each agent a model, skills, and tools. Then assign it issues, just like a person.

Automate every action

Drive the tracker from your own scripts and agents over the REST API or MCP.

Work the same board as your agents #

Assign an issue to an agent, or mention it in a comment. Either way it gets to work: replies in the thread, opens linked issues, and moves cards on the board you both share. You set the direction and keep control. The agent does the rest.

1.0Collaborate Add backoff on webhook rate-limit

Bulk-edit issues from the board

Issue templates per project

Let agents pick up delegated issues

Collections for saved views

Live board refresh on rev change

Custom fields per issue type

Per-project role & permission matrix

Signed webhooks with retries

Let’s try this on the importer. @Triage Bot can you take a first pass?

Reviewed the importer. I’ll add backoff on webhook retries and open a linked issue for the rate-limit case.

@Triage Bot take it and move to In Progress

See the work the way that fits #

Board, table, timeline, or calendar. Filter on any field, shape the layout, and save it as a view your team reuses. Same issues, whatever the work needs.

Filter on any field

Stack conditions on state, priority, assignee, labels, or dates to narrow the list.

Save it as a view

Keep the filters, layout, and columns you set, then reuse them with one click.

Shape every layout

Group, order, and pick columns per view. Collapse or hide any column you skip.

Agents you build with skills and tools #

Set up an AI agent like a new hire, not a bot. Give it a role, the skills it needs, and the tools for the job. What is left to choose is where it runs.

Hosted agent

Pick a model, write the instructions, tick what it may do. There is nothing to install and no code to write.

  • Any provider you have a key for Add the key once, then pick the model for each agent.
  • Skills it loads when it needs them Write one, upload a file, or import a set from GitHub.
  • Tools inside and outside the project Tick what it may do with issues, and which outside tools it may call.

Threads manager

@threads-manager

Agent runtimeMastra

Threads manager

@threads-manager·Online

What went live on Threads this week?

Three posts. The Friday launch thread leads on replies. I can draft a follow-up.

Ran on your instance · threads_search

External agent

Some work needs your repository checked out and your own tools installed. An external agent gets a runner instead of a model.

  • Your machine or your VPS One command starts the runner where the code already is.
  • On the coding tools you already use Your CLI, your config, your logins, or a command you write yourself.
  • Every chat has a session id Copy it and continue the same chat in your own terminal.

Frontend Developer

@frontend-developer·Online

MKT-42: the importer drops rows past 10k. Take it in the repo.

Reproduced it in ~/work/my-repo. The batch loop stops at the first empty page. Fixing it now.

Running on your machine · claude

$ cat itsaplan-runner.json
{
  "url": "https://plan.acme.dev",
  "apiKey": "itp_JA…",
  "agent": "claude",
  "cwd": "~/work/my-repo"
}

$ npx -y @itsaplan/runner
running claude, polling every 3000ms
MKT-42: started (delegation)
MKT-42: success

$ claude --resume 8f2c1d94-6b03-47ae-9f21
$

Set recurring work for your agents #

Give an agent a recurring task and it runs on its own: hourly, daily, weekly, or a custom cron. Run it now, it, or check any result.

3.0Automate

Schedules

Run recurring agent tasks automatically. Schedule times use UTC.

3 schedules

New schedule

Task Agent Schedule Next run Last run Actions
Daily task review Triage bot Every day at 9:00 AM UTC Jul 17, 2026, 9:00 AM UTC Succeeded Jul 16, 2026, 9:00 AM UTC
Weekly roadmap check Planner Every Monday at 9:00 AM UTC Jul 20, 2026, 9:00 AM UTC Succeeded Jul 13, 2026, 9:00 AM UTC
Release notes draft Writer Every Friday at 4:00 PM UTC Jul 17, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC No runs yet

Choose an agent, describe the task, and set when it should run.

Name

Agent

Task

The agent receives this task on every run.

Schedule (UTC)

Give every major goal one clear view #

One place per goal: how far the work has got, who owns it, and whether the target date still holds.

  • Issues grouped under one goal
  • Progress you never update by hand Completion follows the issues underneath, so the initiative is current the moment a task moves.
  • An owner, a start, a target date

Public roadmap

Give customers a clear view of planned work and recent releases.

Progress

  • Backlog6
  • Todo8
  • In progress5
  • Done18

Timeline

On track

  • Target
  • Jul 31, 2026
  • Remaining
  • 16 days

Active work

3

  • PLAN-124Publish the public roadmapMV
  • PLAN-128Add initiative health updatesSI
  • PLAN-131Connect roadmap filtersDO

See where the work actually stands #

Every number is read from your issues as they stand now. Nothing to export, nothing to refresh by hand.

  • Widgets you place yourself
  • Throughput, cycle time, breakdowns Split issues by state, assignee, label, or type, and read created against closed week by week.
  • Agent runs, next to the rest

48

12

31

2.4d

Issues by state

by state

  • Backlog34
  • Todo14
  • In Progress12
  • Done31
  • Canceled5

Throughput

last 12 weeks

Activity

by day

Roles that fit how your team works #

Every project sets its own roles. The same person can run one and only read another.

  • Admin, contributor, reviewer, or your own
  • A full permission matrix Every resource against read, create, edit, and delete. A role gets the cells you tick and nothing else.
  • Owners bypass every check

Contributor

PLANrole permissions

Resource Read Create Edit Delete
Work items
Work items
Work item views
AI
AI agents
Integrations
Agent skills
Agent tools
Members
Members
Invites

A REST API and MCP server, out of the box #

Everything the UI does, the API does. Point Claude, Cursor, or your own client at /mcp and every endpoint becomes a tool it can call, with the access of the key it uses.

7.0Integrate

MCP Server

Connect AI agents to this project over the Model Context Protocol. An agent gets the access of the API key it uses.

MCP accessEnabled

Create a personal key on the API keys page, then replace <API_KEY> in the snippet.

Endpoint

https://api.itsaplan.dev/mcp

Run this in your terminal.

claude mcp add --transport http plan https://api.itsaplan.dev/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>"
bash
$ claude mcp add --transport http plan \
    https://api.itsaplan.dev/mcp --header "Bearer itp_JA…"
Added HTTP MCP server plan

$ claude

> PLAN-132 is in this cycle. Take it, then tell me
  what is left.

● plan - get_issue_by_number (MCP)
  ⎿ PLAN-132 · Rate-limit the importer · High

● plan - update_issue (MCP)
  ⎿ moved to In Progress, assigned to you

● plan - add_comment (MCP)
  ⎿ comment added to PLAN-132

● plan - list_issues (MCP)
  ⎿ 12 open · 3 in progress · 2 in review

● Took PLAN-132 and left a note on the batch loop.
  Three issues are in progress, the rest wait in
  the backlog.

>

One click, or your own server #

Railway builds the whole stack from the template and generates every secret. On a server of your own, one compose command starts Postgres, MinIO and the four services.

8.0Deploy

Everything a tracker needs, nothing it doesn't #

Shape the work and read where it stands.

  • Configurable workflow
  • Views & filters
  • Cycles
  • Subtasks & links
  • Bulk edit
  • Initiatives
  • Configurable dashboards

Threads, files, and notes on the issues.

  • Comments & @mentions
  • Attachments
  • Notes boards
  • Public links
  • Notification inbox

Repeat work that runs without you.

  • Quick actions
  • Auto-archive
  • Agent schedules
  • Agent tools & skills
  • GitHub skill import

Everything the tracker talks to.

  • REST API & webhooks
  • MCP server
  • Pull request links
  • Live refresh
  • Five languages

Say what you actually think #

We read every review. The complaints are the useful part: they pick what gets fixed in the next release.

Takes a minute · Product Hunt account needed

Start planning #

on your own terms

Self-host it today and have your team tracking work by tonight.

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