# Show HN: It's a Plan – a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Linear > Source: > Published: 2026-08-04 20:05:16+00:00 Self-hosted, open-source project management and issue tracking, and an alternative to Linear, Plane, and Jira. The difference: AI agents work here like any teammate. Hand them issues, or run the whole thing over the REST API, webhooks, and MCP. If It's a Plan looks useful to you, star the repo ⭐ — it helps other people find it. [Website](https://itsaplan.dev) · [Discussions](https://github.com/croffasia/itsaplan/discussions) · [Contributing](/croffasia/itsaplan/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) · [Security](/croffasia/itsaplan/blob/main/SECURITY.md) Most trackers bolt AI on as a chatbot. Here an agent is a real member of the team. It has a role, permissions, and an assignee slot, and it works the same board your people do. It's a self-hosted, open alternative to Linear, Plane, and Jira. You run it on your own server and database. **Own your stack.** Your server, your database. No per-seat fees, no lock-in.**Agents as teammates.** Give an agent a model, a prompt, skills, and tools. Assign it issues like you would a person.**One board for both.** People and agents share the same board, threads, and cards.**Automate anything.** Drive it all through the REST API, MCP, and signed webhooks. Heads-up: this is under active development. Expect breaking changes before the first stable release. **Tracking** - Configure issues per project: custom fields, labels, states, and issue types - Kanban, table, timeline, and calendar views, with configurable display fields and two-level grouping - Save any view as a reusable template - Configurable dashboards for project analytics: throughput, breakdown, pulse - Custom quick actions that run on an issue - Freeform notes boards: sticky notes on a canvas, with colors, checklists, and connections - Share a view or an issue by public link, read-only and without sign-in - Initiatives that group and track work across projects - Auto-archive, a notification inbox, role-based access control, and more **AI agents** - Agents as project members with their own permissions and assigned issues - Configure each agent's model, system prompt, tools, and reusable skills — built on the [Mastra](https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra)agent framework - Mention an agent in a comment to trigger a run - Scheduled agent runs - Built-in chat with per-agent conversation history **Platform** - REST API with an OpenAPI reference and API keys - MCP server, so an external assistant can read and change issues through the same API - Outgoing webhooks: subscribe to events, signed payloads, and retries with a delivery log - Email and password, passkey, and Google sign-in - Notifications by email (SMTP or Resend) and Telegram, with per-member preferences - Instance administration: storage limits, mail transport, and instance-wide settings Requirements: Docker and a domain behind a TLS-terminating reverse proxy. ``` git clone https://github.com/croffasia/itsaplan.git cd itsaplan cp .env.example .env # set API_URL, APP_URL, and the secrets docker compose up -d --build ``` One command brings up the whole stack: Postgres, MinIO, api, worker, bot, and web. The first account registered becomes the instance admin. [Self-hosting](/croffasia/itsaplan/blob/main/docs/self-hosting.md)— the full production setup, secrets, and updates[Deploy on Coolify](/croffasia/itsaplan/blob/main/docs/coolify.md)— the same stack on a Coolify instance[Local development](/croffasia/itsaplan/blob/main/docs/development.md)— running the apps on the host, and the tests | Layer | Technology | |---|---| | Runtime | | [Elysia](https://elysiajs.com/)[Next.js](https://nextjs.org/)App Router, SSR[shadcn/ui](https://ui.shadcn.com/)+ Tailwind v4[better-auth](https://better-auth.com/)[Drizzle](https://orm.drizzle.team/)+ PostgreSQL[Mastra](https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra) ``` apps/api Elysia HTTP API, mounts better-auth at /api/auth/* apps/web Next.js app, server-side rendered apps/worker webhooks, notifications, agent runs apps/bot Telegram bot packages/db Drizzle client, schema, migrations packages/auth better-auth server instance packages/crypto AES-256-GCM encryption for secrets at rest packages/mailer SMTP and Resend transport ``` The web app never imports the packages directly, it talks to the API over HTTP. ** Vibe Code Kit** — a Claude Code plugin with 20+ expert skills that turn AI slop into senior-level code. It teaches your AI agent professional development and design practices, so you ship production-ready code on the first try. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Cursor. It's a Plan is built with it — the code you are reading is the proof. Issues and pull requests are welcome — bug fixes, features, docs, all of it. Start with [CONTRIBUTING.md](/croffasia/itsaplan/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md). It covers the setup, the conventions, and how a change gets merged. Be kind; we follow a [Code of Conduct](/croffasia/itsaplan/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). Not ready to contribute code? [Star the repo](https://github.com/croffasia/itsaplan) and share it — it is the simplest way to help the project grow. Found a vulnerability? Report it privately through [GitHub Security Advisories](https://github.com/croffasia/itsaplan/security/advisories/new), not a public issue, so we can fix it first. Details in [SECURITY.md](/croffasia/itsaplan/blob/main/SECURITY.md). Copyright © 2026 VIBE DEV SPACE LLC. [AGPL-3.0](/croffasia/itsaplan/blob/main/LICENSE). Running a modified version as a network service means publishing your changes under the same license.