kanban

kanban is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from keefar/ticket-flow. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,980 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-work tracking workflow that records bugs, features, and changes in a beads tracker, a command-line task board.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating and updating tracked items, moving them through Inbox, Backlog, In Progress, and Testing, and closing completed work.
Why use it?
It keeps work items and their statuses in one source of truth instead of relying on scattered notes or an outdated board snapshot.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ticket-flow plugin — 13 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

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/keefar/ticket-flow/kanban
Any agent
npx skills add keefar/ticket-flow --skill kanban
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/keefar/ticket-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ticket-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for kanban

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/keefar/ticket-flow/kanban.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/keefar/ticket-flow/kanban)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/keefar/ticket-flow/kanban"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/keefar/ticket-flow/kanban.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,980 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 $0.00052 $0.01980
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00990
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00198

Measured 5d ago against content hash e00f9acd8e7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kanban 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (bd-helper.sh, kanban-import.sh, kanban-render.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/kanban/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kanban — tracker maintenance (beads)

All paths are relative to the project root (cwd / git rev-parse --show-toplevel):

Operational board (hot path): bd itself — Inbox · Backlog · In Progress · Testing, expressed as bd status + labels. Strategic plan: ROADMAP.md — epics + later + parked. Cold path, only when strategically relevant. Spec template: docs/specs/SPEC-TEMPLATE.md — template for item specs. Static snapshot (on demand): /ticket-flow:board writes a read-only KANBAN.md from bd state — never a workflow input.

bd is the sole source of truth. The workflow never reads or writes KANBAN.md — new items go straight to bd create, state moves via bd-helper.sh. (The former KANBAN.md-backed Mode B was removed — tf is beads-only; the dual-mode code is preserved at refs/archive/mode-kanban.)

Toolbox (skills/kanban/):

  • bd-helper.sh — sourced by pickup, finish, flow, and this skill. Exposes bd_id_for <kanban#>, bd_set_status, bd_update_notes_{append,replace_prefix,remove_prefix}. State transitions go through bd_set_status (canonical inbox / backlog / in_progress / testing) plus bd close for Done; notes edits go through the merge-safe wrappers (never bd update --notes= directly — that's destructive).
  • kanban-render.sh — generate the read-only KANBAN.md snapshot from bd state. Not part of any workflow skill — reachable only via /ticket-flow:board. See that skill.
  • kanban-import.sh — one-shot KANBAN.md → beads migration: parse an existing board's rows into bd. Idempotent (skips kanban-N labels already in bd). Invoked by /ticket-flow:init when it finds a legacy KANBAN.md, not in the steady-state workflow.

Workflow commands (Ticket-Flow)

Command Phase Effect
/ticket-flow:spec <id> Pre-Backlog Create a spec doc from template, set note to spec: drafting (or a full autonomous draft with --auto, note → spec: review)
/ticket-flow:pickup <id> Phase 1 Worktree + branch lock + move to In Progress
/ticket-flow:implement Phase 2 Execute the plan (interactive or subagent dispatch)
/ticket-flow:finish Phase 3 Review + deploy + merge + move to Testing
/ticket-flow:flow <id> Orchestrator Phase 1 → 2 → 3, --local with checkpoints, --serial --loop unattended

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 5d ago First seen · 136 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A e00f9acd8e7f

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kanban is a skill published in the GitHub repository keefar/ticket-flow (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,980 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 2026-08-31.