kanban-work

kanban-work is a skill for Claude Code from gablabelle/mcp-kanban. It costs 46 tokens per session (900 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for carrying out planned tickets on a Kanban board. A Kanban board is a visual task list whose columns show work stages such as backlog, in progress, review, and done.

In plain words
What is it for?
Opening the board, finding the highest-priority unstarted ticket, moving it through the workflow, and completing its subtasks.
Why use it?
It provides a defined sequence for finding ready tickets, starting them, updating their status, and finishing the work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the kanban plugin — 2 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Opening the board, finding the highest-priority unstarted ticket, moving it through the workflow, and completing its subtasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gablabelle/mcp-kanban/kanban-work
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.

Any agent
npx skills add gablabelle/mcp-kanban --skill kanban-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gablabelle/mcp-kanban

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kanban, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 900 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.
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 $0.00046 $0.00900
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00450
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00090

Measured 12d ago against content hash 12c444d64d17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kanban-work 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.

plugin/skills/kanban-work/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Work Through Kanban Tickets

You are executing planned work from the mcp-kanban board. Move tickets through columns and update them as you work.

Step 0: Start the board (MANDATORY FIRST STEP)

You MUST call mcp__kanban__open_board FIRST, before any other kanban tool. This starts the web UI server. Wait for it to return, then open the URL in the browser:

open "<url from open_board>"

Do NOT call any other kanban tool until this step is complete.

Step 1: Discover the board

Use mcp__kanban__list_columns to get the column IDs. Identify:

  • The "in progress" column (for active work)
  • The "review" column (if it exists, for completed-but-not-verified work)
  • The "done" column (for finished work)

Use mcp__kanban__list_tickets to see all tickets and find which ones are ready to work on (in Backlog or Todo).

Step 2: Pick the next ticket

If $ARGUMENTS specifies a ticket or story, start with that. Otherwise, pick the highest-priority story that hasn't been started yet.

Use mcp__kanban__get_ticket to read the full ticket details including subtasks.

Step 3: Move the story to In Progress

Use mcp__kanban__move_ticket to move the parent story to the "in progress" column. This signals on the board that work has begun.

Step 4: Work through each subtask

For each subtask in the story:

  1. Before starting: Move the subtask to "in progress" with mcp__kanban__move_ticket
  2. Do the work: Implement the changes — read files, write code, run tests, etc.
  3. Update the ticket: Use mcp__kanban__update_ticket to add implementation notes to the subtask description — what was done, what files were changed, any decisions made
  4. Mark complete: Use mcp__kanban__complete_subtask to move the subtask to Done

Step 5: Complete the story

Once all subtasks are done:

  1. Use mcp__kanban__update_ticket to update the parent story's description with a summary of what was implemented
  2. Move the story to "review" or "done" column with mcp__kanban__move_ticket

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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 · 70 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 12c444d64d17

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kanban-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository gablabelle/mcp-kanban (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 900 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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