kanban-md: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/kanban-based-development/SKILL.md

kanban-based-development is a skill for Claude Code from antopolskiy/kanban-md. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,253 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task workflow built around a kanban board, where work is represented by cards that move through stages. It supports multiple agents or people working on the same codebase by requiring each task to be claimed before work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to claim coding tasks, coordinate parallel work, record handoffs, and leave items waiting for review or user decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicate work, conflicting edits, and unclear handoffs when several contributors share a project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is antopolskiy/kanban-md's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on kanban-md itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kanban-md configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is git worktree add ../kanban-md-task-<ID> -b task/<ID>-<kebab-description>.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to antopolskiy/kanban-md. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antopolskiy/kanban-md/main/.agents/skills/kanban-based-development/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/antopolskiy/kanban-md

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,253 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00068 $0.02253
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01126
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00451
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00225

Measured 12d ago against content hash f2a40ae9b4fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kanban-based-development scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agents/skills/kanban-based-development/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kanban-Based Development

Autonomous, parallel-safe development using kanban-md to coordinate work on a shared board. Claims prevent duplicate work; review is the waiting room (handoff, user action, merge, decisions).

Multi-Agent Environment

This board is shared. Multiple agents and humans may be working on it simultaneously. You are NOT the only one reading or modifying tasks. This means:

  • Another agent may claim a task between the time you list it and try to pick it.
  • Tasks you saw as available a moment ago may no longer be available.

The claim mechanic is the coordination primitive. It prevents two agents from working on the same task. You MUST claim a task before starting any work on it, and you MUST only pick unclaimed tasks. Violating this causes duplicate work, merge conflicts, and wasted effort.

Non-Negotiables

  • Claim before you change anything. No task edits, no code changes.
  • One active task per agent. Keep at most one task in in-progress for your agent session.
  • Never steal a live claim. If it's claimed, pick something else.
  • Never release someone else’s claim. Only use edit --release for your own work (or when the user explicitly asks).
  • Always leave a handoff. Before you park a task, write a short update in the body so someone else can continue.
  • Refresh claims to avoid timeout. If the task might take longer than claim_timeout, periodically renew your claim: kanban-md edit <ID> --claim <agent>.

Board Home vs Worktrees (simple rule)

  • Always run kanban-md from board home (the canonical repo directory that owns the shared board).
  • Always do code changes in a task worktree. Never edit code in board home.
  • If the board is git-tracked, commit board changes on main as a separate commit after the task is merged and moved to done.

At the start of the session, determine and remember <board-home>:

cd <the canonical repo directory that owns the shared board>
pwd   # remember this path as <board-home>

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 265 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A f2a40ae9b4fc

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kanban-based-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository antopolskiy/kanban-md (215 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,253 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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