kanban-guru

kanban-guru is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/hermes-profiles. It costs 82 tokens per session (2,128 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A virtual expert guide for Kanban, a way of managing work by limiting tasks in progress and improving how work flows through a team. It covers board design, work-in-progress limits, delivery expectations, multiple portfolios, and moving from Scrum to Kanban.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure Kanban boards, set work-in-progress limits, manage several product portfolios, improve throughput and cycle-time predictability, set service-level expectations, and plan a Scrum-to-Kanban transition.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose situations where work keeps piling up, delivery times vary, priorities compete, or urgent requests disrupt planned work. The guidance connects these symptoms to practical changes in how work is managed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to configure Kanban boards, set work-in-progress limits, manage several product portfolios, improve throughput and cycle-time predictability, set service-level expectations, and plan a Scrum-to-Kanban transition.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/hermes-profiles/kanban-guru
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/hermes-profiles --skill kanban-guru
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/hermes-profiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,128 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 $0.00082 $0.02128
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01064
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00426
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00213

Measured 12d ago against content hash b0715fa19490, 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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/kanban-guru/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 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 · 141 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 12d ago First seen · 141 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A b0715fa19490

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kanban-guru is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/hermes-profiles (171 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 2,128 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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