codekanban-cli

A command-line tool for controlling CodeKanban projects and AI work sessions from a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating and inspecting projects, starting or continuing workflows and sessions, controlling terminals, managing files, and handling authentication.
Why use it?
It gives developers one documented command interface for managing these sessions without relying on project-specific helper scripts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fy0/codekanban/codekanban-cli
Any agent
npx skills add fy0/CodeKanban --skill codekanban-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fy0/CodeKanban

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,230 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00102 $0.02230
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01115
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00446
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00223

Measured yesterday against content hash 27e1628fe4c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codekanban-cli 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 yesterday.

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.

packages/codekanban-cli/skills/codekanban-cli/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CodeKanban CLI

Use this skill after installing the codekanban-cli package and copying this packaged skill into the user's Codex skills directory.

When to use this skill

  • Use it for CodeKanban project, web-session, workflow, session, and terminal operations.
  • Prefer web-session for structured interactive AI work.
  • Use workflow start only when the user explicitly wants a PTY-style startup flow.
  • Use terminal continue only when the user explicitly wants to continue an existing terminal session.

Command boundary

The CLI surface is limited to the scopes documented here: project, web-session, workflow, session, terminal, file, and auth. The former Kanban task scope is removed; do not invent task or board API calls. For repository work, send instructions through web-session or use the file commands.

Prerequisites

  • codekanban-cli is installed and available on PATH
  • The CodeKanban service is reachable
  • Default service URL is http://127.0.0.1:3007
  • If auth is enabled, save a token once with codekanban-cli auth save-token

First-time initialization

If the service is open and does not require auth, you can start immediately:

codekanban-cli project list

If the service requires auth, save a token once:

printf '%s' '<PASSWORD>' | codekanban-cli auth save-token --password-stdin

You can also save a token directly:

codekanban-cli auth save-token --token-file <TOKEN_FILE>

Saved session data lives in a user-level config directory, not in a repository:

  • Windows: %APPDATA%\codekanban-cli\session.json
  • macOS/Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/codekanban-cli/session.json or ~/.config/codekanban-cli/session.json

Project targeting rules

Target selection priority:

  1. --project-id
  2. --project-name
  3. local current directory fallback for local servers only
  4. explicit --path

Use these project helpers first when the user refers to a project by name:

codekanban-cli project list
codekanban-cli project resolve --project-name codekanban

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 226 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 27e1628fe4c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codekanban-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository fy0/CodeKanban (225 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 2,230 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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