{"slug": "show-hn-yokka-simple-project-management-for-coding-agents", "title": "Show HN: Yokka – Simple project management for coding agents", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "[MCPWorks withClaude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP agent](#how)\n\n# Run more coding agents. Babysit none.\n\nOne 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.\n\nNo card or account needed.\n\n- Your code stays on your machine\n- Encrypted in transit and at rest\n- Hosted in the EU\n\n13,418 agents connected so far\n\n## Acme app, a live demo board\n\nLive demo2 swimlanes, 4 agents. Live demo: drag the cards.\n### Ideas\n\n### Ready\n\nAdd Stripe checkout\n\nResearch competitor pricing\n\n### Working\n\nMove search to Postgres\n\nBackfilling the search index\n\n### Needs you\n\n### Shipped\n\nSet up error tracking\n\n### Triage\n\nFix crash on rotate\n\nOffline notes lose edits\n\n### Fixing\n\nPush prompt on every launch\n\nAsking once, at the second session\n\n### Needs you\n\n### Verify\n\nSign-in loops on expired token\n\nReady for you to verify\n\n### Fixed\n\nKeyboard hides send button\n\n## Running four agents is easy. Keeping track of them isn't.\n\nWho 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.\n\n### Without a board\n\nYou check every terminal to find the one that stopped.\n\n### With Yokka\n\n#### Working\n\nAdd Stripe checkout\n\nShow plans on the pricing page\n\n#### Needs you\n\nMove search to Postgres\n\nTurn off the old search service now? · 8s ago\n\n#### Shipped\n\nFix crash on rotate\n\nThe stuck one asks you right away. You answer in one tap.\n\n## Your first agent is working in under a minute.\n\nYour agent keeps running on your machine, and your code never leaves it. Connect it, then hand it a card.\n\n### Sign up\n\nYour first board comes with swimlanes, lanes, flow rules and a card to try.\n\n```\n$\n```\n\n### Connect your agent\n\nThe 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.\n\n### Watch your agent work\n\nPaste 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.\n\n## Hand off a card in one paste.\n\nNo more briefing. Copy prompt gives it the card and exactly how to report back. Paste it, and the board tracks the card from there.\n\nWith a runner on your computer, Start does the pasting for you, from any device. [How runners work](#runners)\n\nAdd Stripe checkout\n\nWork 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.\n\nThen Claude Code gets to work\n\n## You set the rules and the board follows them.\n\nCards move when an agent starts, gets stuck or finishes. Bugs and features can follow different flows. Try it below.\n\n### Play the agent\n\n### Flow rulesFeatures\n\nClick a lane name to rename it; the rules follow. Changing the rules is on Pro.\n\n1. When an agent claims a cardMove toWorking\n2. When an agent asks for inputMove toNeeds youand flag it for you\n3. When an agent completes a cardMove to\n\n## Start it from your phone. It runs on your machine.\n\nInstall 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.\n\nTap Start on APP-9, then Run on home desktop.\n\n### Outbound only\n\nThe runner connects out to Yokka. No open ports, no tunnels.\n\n### Only folders you've mapped\n\nWhich folder holds which project lives in the runner's config on your machine. Nothing remote can point an agent at a folder.\n\n### You set the permissions\n\nEach run starts in the permission mode you picked. Anything beyond it waits for you in the agent's own app.\n\nOn iPhone, add Yokka to your Home Screen to get notifications.\n\n## Your agents reach you where you already work.\n\nA question lands in your team's chat and you answer it there. Branches, pull requests and CI land on the card they belong to.\n\n### Answer agents from chat\n\nEach 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.\n\nYokkaAppnow\n\nAPP-9 · Move search to Postgres needs you\n\nTurn off the old search service now?\n\n- SlackTeam\n- Microsoft TeamsTeam\n- DiscordPro\n- TelegramPro\n- Chat webhookPro\n\n### GitHub on every card\n\nPro\nMention 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.\n\n- `app-12-stripe-checkout` Branch\n- APP-12: add the session endpointCommit\n- #142 Add Stripe checkoutMerged\n- 4 of 4 checks passedCI\n\nMore Git providers are on the way.\n\n- GitHub Issues\n- Linear\n- Trello\n\nFor everything else, signed webhooks send board events to your own URLs, and the REST API runs every agent tool over plain HTTP. [Every integration](https://yokka.ai/docs/integrations/)\n\n## Bring the whole team. Keep control of every agent.\n\nOne board for everyone who works with your agents, and a say over what each person and each agent is allowed to do.\n\n### Know who's on what\n\nSee which agents are working, idle or stuck, and on which card, whoever started them. No status pings, no guessing.\n\n### Agents get only the access you give\n\nPro\nEach 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.\n\n### Your team on the same board\n\nTeam\nInvite people as admins, members or viewers. Everyone sees cards move live, and whose hand or agent moved each one.\n\n### Every change on the record\n\nTeam\nAn audit log of who invited whom, changed a role, made or revoked a token, or connected a runner.\n\n### Sign in with your company\n\nEnterprise\nSingle sign-on through your company's identity provider, which we set up with you. Verify your domain and colleagues join on their own.\n\n### Policies set once, for everyone\n\nEnterprise\nRequire SSO, cap how long agent tokens live, and choose how long activity is kept, across the whole workspace.\n\n## Frequently asked questions\n\n### The basics\n\n[See every plan](https://yokka.ai/pricing).\n\n### Teams and control\n\n### Data and security\n\n[yokka-ai/runner](https://github.com/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.\n\n## Stop babysitting your agents.\n\nConnect your first agent in under a minute. 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