About KanbanThing
KanbanThing is a link-shared kanban board for short projects and personal work, with no accounts or API keys. Its CLI lets scripts and AI agents work with the same board as browser users.
Key features
- 01Shared boards with password protection
- 02Custom columns and draggable cards
- 03Backlog, calendar, and timeline views
- 04Read-only links
- 05CLI with JSON output
Use cases
- 01Coordinate a short project on a shared board
- 02Run a team retrospective
- 03Track personal tasks and due dates
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://www.kanbanthing.com/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http com-kanbanthing-kanban https://www.kanbanthing.com/mcp{"mcpServers":{"com-kanbanthing-kanban":{"type":"http","url":"https://www.kanbanthing.com/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"com-kanbanthing-kanban":{"type":"http","url":"https://www.kanbanthing.com/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"com-kanbanthing-kanban":{"type":"http","url":"https://www.kanbanthing.com/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"com-kanbanthing-kanban":{"serverUrl":"https://www.kanbanthing.com/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
8| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | string | Yes | Board name shown to everyone. |
| columns | array | No | Columns left to right after Backlog. Defaults to To Do, In Progress, Done. |
| password | string | No | Board password. A random one is generated and returned if omitted. |
| lifespan_days | integer | No | Days until the board is deleted. Defaults to 60. |
Details
From the project READMEKanbanThing
A free kanban board you can share with a link. No account, no email, no install.
You name a board, choose a password, and get a link. Anyone you send that link to opens the same board and moves the same cards. That last part is the point — most free no-signup kanban tools keep the board in one browser's local storage, so it can never really be shared. This one is shared by default.
What it does
- Columns you can add, rename and reorder, starting from To Do, In Progress and Done
- Cards with a description, a colour and a due date, moved by drag and drop or from the card menu
- A backlog for work that is not scheduled yet
- A calendar view of the same cards by due date, and a timeline view by most recent activity
- A password on every board, set when the board is created, plus a read-only link for people who should see the board but not change it
- Light and dark appearance, following your system setting
- A command line client with
--jsonon every command, so a script or an AI agent can drive the same board a person has open in a browser — see the CLI docs
What it does not do
There are no accounts, no teams, no permissions and no paid tier. Boards are deleted up to 60 days after they are created, so copy out anything you want to keep.
If you need long-lived project history, this is the wrong tool, and that is on purpose. It suits work with an end in sight: a retrospective, a short project, or a personal board you start again every few weeks.
Guides
- Choosing the columns on a kanban board
- Running a retrospective on a shared board
- Personal kanban: running a board for one
- Edit links, read-only links and passwords
Built with
Next.js, React, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, with Supabase for storage. Made and maintained by Tron Schell.
Running it locally
Requires Node 20 or newer and a Supabase project.
npm install
npm run dev
Set NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL and NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY in .env.local. The SQL
that builds the schema lives in db/, applied in filename order.
npm run build # production build
npm test # vitest
npm run typecheck # tsc --noEmit
npm run lint # eslint
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