{"slug": "it-s-a-plan", "title": "It's a Plan", "summary": "The self-hosted issue tracker itsaplan (croffasia/itsaplan) reached version v1.9.0 with 2,059 GitHub stars, up 1,208 (+142%) over the last 30 days, four months after the repository was created. The AGPL-3.0 project lets teams assign issues to hosted or external AI agents that reply in comment threads, open linked issues and move cards on a shared board, and it ships a REST API, signed webhooks and an MCP server so clients such as Claude or Cursor can call every endpoint as a tool. It is positioned as a self-hosted alternative to Jira, Linear and Plane, running on Bun, Elysia, Next.js, Drizzle and PostgreSQL with one-click Railway or Docker deployment.", "body_md": "2,059stars+1,208(+142%)\n\nLast 30 days\n\n- Last commit 10 hours ago\n- Repository age 4 months\n- Version v1.9.0\n- License [AGPL-3.0](https://openalternative.co/licenses/agpl-3)\n- Self-hosted [Yes](https://openalternative.co/collections/self-hosted)\n- Repository [croffasia/itsaplan](https://github.com/croffasia/itsaplan)\n\nThis is a self-hosted issue tracker for teams that want people and AI agents working on the same board. You run it on your own server, database and model keys, so your data stays with you and there are no per-seat fees. It's an alternative to [Jira](https://openalternative.co/alternatives/jira), [Linear](https://openalternative.co/alternatives/linear) and [Plane](https://openalternative.co/plane).\n\nAssign an issue to an agent or mention it in a comment. It replies in the thread, opens linked issues and moves cards on the shared board.\n\n- **Hosted agents:** pick a provider and model, write instructions, and tick the skills and tools it may use.\n- **External agents:** a runner on your machine or VPS drives coding tools like claude, codex, opencode and copilot, or a command you write. Every chat has a session id you can continue in your own terminal.\n- **Schedules:** run agent tasks hourly, daily, weekly or on a custom cron.\n- **Views:** board, table, timeline and calendar, with filters on any field and saved layouts.\n- **Initiatives:** group issues under a goal with an owner, target date and progress that follows the issues.\n- **Dashboards:** widgets for throughput, cycle time and breakdowns, plus agent runs.\n- **Roles:** per-project roles with a permission matrix for read, create, edit and delete.\n- **API and MCP:** a REST API, signed webhooks and an MCP server, so Claude, Cursor or your own client can call every endpoint as a tool.\n\nIt also covers cycles, subtasks, bulk edit, notes boards, attachments, @mentions, pull request links and five languages. The stack is Bun, Elysia, Next.js, Drizzle and PostgreSQL. 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