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Show HN: Yokka – Simple project management for coding agents

Yokka launched a kanban board for tracking coding agents, connecting to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP agent, with 13,418 agents connected so far. The tool keeps code on the user's machine, encrypts data in transit and at rest, and is hosted in the EU, with a runner that connects outbound only and starts cards from any device including a phone. Yokka moves cards automatically as agents claim, request input on, or complete work, and offers a copy-prompt handoff that instructs agents to use MCP tools such as claim_card, get_card, set_checklist, report_progress and complete_card.

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Show HN: Yokka – Simple project management for coding agents
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MCPWorks withClaude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP agent

One kanban board tracks every agent you run, coding or not, shows what's done and what's stuck, and pings you the moment one needs you. So you can stop checking your terminals to see what your agents are doing.

No card or account needed.

  • Your code stays on your machine
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest
  • Hosted in the EU

13,418 agents connected so far

Acme app, a live demo board #

Live demo2 swimlanes, 4 agents. Live demo: drag the cards.

Ideas

Ready

Add Stripe checkout

Research competitor pricing

Working

Move search to Postgres

Backfilling the search index

Needs you

Shipped

Set up error tracking

Triage

Fix crash on rotate

Offline notes lose edits

Fixing

Push prompt on every launch

Asking once, at the second session

Needs you

Verify

Sign-in loops on expired token

Ready for you to verify

Fixed

Keyboard hides send button

Running four agents is easy. Keeping track of them isn't. #

Who is on what, what is finished, which one is stuck on a question: the only way to find out is tabbing through terminals, so a stuck agent can sit idle for most of an hour before you notice.

Without a board

You check every terminal to find the one that stopped.

With Yokka

Working

Add Stripe checkout

Show plans on the pricing page

Needs you

Move search to Postgres

Turn off the old search service now? · 8s ago

Shipped

Fix crash on rotate

The stuck one asks you right away. You answer in one tap.

Your first agent is working in under a minute. #

Your agent keeps running on your machine, and your code never leaves it. Connect it, then hand it a card.

Sign up

Your first board comes with swimlanes, lanes, flow rules and a card to try.

$

Connect your agent

The connect screen fills in your token. Claude Code gets the Yokka plugin, Codex one command, Cursor and VS Code one click, and the Claude app and ChatGPT a few steps.

Watch your agent work

Paste a card's prompt into your agent, or press Start and your runner launches it. The card moves as it works, and What happened catches you up on what you missed.

Hand off a card in one paste. #

No more briefing. Copy prompt gives it the card and exactly how to report back. Paste it, and the board tracks the card from there.

With a runner on your computer, Start does the pasting for you, from any device. How runners work

Add Stripe checkout

Work on APP-12 "Add Stripe checkout" in Acme app. Use the Yokka MCP tools: claim it with claim_card, read the brief with get_card, write your plan with set_checklist and tick steps off with check_items as you finish them, call report_progress at real milestones (one line each), request_input if you need me, and complete_card with a short summary when done. Any subagent you use reports on APP-12 too, and before you stop, the card is done, released, waiting on me, or says what it waits on.

Then Claude Code gets to work

You set the rules and the board follows them. #

Cards move when an agent starts, gets stuck or finishes. Bugs and features can follow different flows. Try it below.

Play the agent

Flow rulesFeatures

Click a lane name to rename it; the rules follow. Changing the rules is on Pro.

  1. When an agent claims a cardMove toWorking
  2. When an agent asks for inputMove toNeeds youand flag it for you
  3. When an agent completes a cardMove to

Start it from your phone. It runs on your machine. #

Install the runner once on the computer that holds your code. Then start cards, answer questions and stop runs from anywhere, including your phone. Your code never leaves your machine.

Tap Start on APP-9, then Run on home desktop.

Outbound only

The runner connects out to Yokka. No open ports, no tunnels.

Only folders you've mapped

Which folder holds which project lives in the runner's config on your machine. Nothing remote can point an agent at a folder.

You set the permissions

Each run starts in the permission mode you picked. Anything beyond it waits for you in the agent's own app.

On iPhone, add Yokka to your Home Screen to get notifications.

Your agents reach you where you already work. #

A question lands in your team's chat and you answer it there. Branches, pull requests and CI land on the card they belong to.

Answer agents from chat

Each project posts to its own channel when an agent needs you, a run finishes or a card ships. Tap a button or reply in your own words, and the agent picks it up.

YokkaAppnow

APP-9 · Move search to Postgres needs you

Turn off the old search service now?

  • SlackTeam
  • Microsoft TeamsTeam
  • DiscordPro
  • TelegramPro
  • Chat webhookPro

GitHub on every card

Pro Mention a card's ref in a branch, commit or pull request and it shows up on that card, with the pull request's checks. Merging can move the card on by itself.

  • app-12-stripe-checkout Branch
  • APP-12: add the session endpointCommit
  • #142 Add Stripe checkoutMerged
  • 4 of 4 checks passedCI

More Git providers are on the way.

  • GitHub Issues
  • Linear
  • Trello

For everything else, signed webhooks send board events to your own URLs, and the REST API runs every agent tool over plain HTTP. Every integration

Bring the whole team. Keep control of every agent. #

One board for everyone who works with your agents, and a say over what each person and each agent is allowed to do.

Know who's on what

See which agents are working, idle or stuck, and on which card, whoever started them. No status pings, no guessing.

Agents get only the access you give

Pro Each agent gets its own token: read-only or read-and-write, one project or all, with an expiry. Revoke it and that agent is cut off at once.

Your team on the same board

Team Invite people as admins, members or viewers. Everyone sees cards move live, and whose hand or agent moved each one.

Every change on the record

Team An audit log of who invited whom, changed a role, made or revoked a token, or connected a runner.

Sign in with your company

Enterprise Single sign-on through your company's identity provider, which we set up with you. Verify your domain and colleagues join on their own.

Policies set once, for everyone

Enterprise Require SSO, cap how long agent tokens live, and choose how long activity is kept, across the whole workspace.

Frequently asked questions #

The basics

See every plan.

Teams and control

Data and security

yokka-ai/runner). It connects out to Yokka, so there are no open ports or tunnels. Which folder belongs to which project lives only in its config on your machine, and Yokka can only ask it to start a run for a card, never send it commands or paths. Every run starts in a permission mode you picked and never skips permissions; anything beyond it waits for you in the agent's own app. Only you can start runs on your runner. No teammate can, admins included, though an admin can stop a run or disconnect the runner. Runners come with Pro and up.

Stop babysitting your agents. #

Connect your first agent in under a minute. Free to start, no card needed.

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