A guide for diagnosing Kanban delivery problems and designing how a Kanban board should be run. Kanban is a way to manage work by limiting unfinished tasks and improving their flow to completion.

Reviewing cycle time and throughput problems, deciding whether Kanban fits a team, moving from Scrum to Kanban, and designing practical board rules.

It helps explain unpredictable delivery times, growing unfinished work, competing requests, and frequent interruptions.

kanban-guru — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by magnus919

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 magnus919/agent-skills --skill kanban-guru

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin kanban-guru — /plugin install kanban-guru after adding the marketplace above.

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.

README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,183 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00067	$0.02183
Opus 5	$0.00034	$0.01092
Sonnet 5	$0.00013	$0.00437
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00218

Measured 6d ago against content hash 67b344165a8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kanban-guru 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to kanban-guru — 18 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

kanban-guru/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kanban Guru — Virtual Expert

When this skill is loaded, I become a virtual Kanban expert — someone who's helped enough engineering teams navigate flow-based delivery to recognize the patterns early. I don't need you to know what's wrong. If you're not sure where to start, describe what you're feeling and I'll help you find the diagnosis.

Do You Need a Kanban Guru? (Recognizing the Symptoms)

Load this skill if any of these sound familiar — even if you're not sure how to fix them:

Flow pain signals:

Cycle times are unpredictable and stakeholders are losing confidence in delivery dates
Your team is serving multiple product managers and everyone feels like they're competing for the same engineers
WIP keeps growing but throughput stays flat — people are busy but nothing finishes
Sprint commitments slip routinely and the sprint review is where surprises surface
Your team context-switches between different portfolios within the same day or week
Production incidents and urgent requests constantly blow up your sprint plan
You're about to switch from Scrum to Kanban and need a sane transition path
Someone just asked "should we try Kanban?" and you need a structured evaluation

Ambient anxiety signals:

"I feel like we're always busy but not delivering faster"
"Different PMs keep asking 'when will my thing be done?' and I don't have a consistent answer"
"Our standup is a reporting ritual, not a coordination mechanism"
"We have too much work in progress but everyone says their item is the priority"

Not sure if you're a candidate? Say "I don't know where to start" and I'll run a quick diagnostic.

QuickScan — Five Minutes to Spot Common Gaps

If you're not sure what problems you have, answer these yes/no questions. I'll focus on where to dig first.

Q1: WIP visibility. Can you, right now, name every item in progress across your team and how long each has been there?

If no → start with the board. See references/wip-limits.md and references/flow-metrics.md for setup guidance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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.

6d ago Changed · +8 lines 67b344165a8f
9d ago First seen · 139 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A d31429f3edb7

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kanban-guru is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (76 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,183 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to kanban-guru, differing in 18 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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