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Re:Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI... by guerython on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:27AM (#47309578)
the markdown-as-database framing is the right one. we ran into the same Jira friction for our agent fleet and ended up with a simple REST task board instead.

the key insight: agents need a shared state store they can both read and mutate without human-mediated handoffs. markdown files work fine for single-agent. once you have multiple agents racing on tasks you want atomic PATCH semantics, not file locks.

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Re:Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI... by gbro3n on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:38AM (#47309735)
Agreed. Also multiple humans. One task per person works great (no Git conflicts). I'll think about this more. I'm thinking that having the agent work through an MCP server might be a means of mitigating the issue. I'd rather keep the sync process in Git if I can.
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