Kanban project board with real-time two-way sync between Claude and a web UI via MCP.

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board

A lightweight Kanban board with real-time two-way sync between Claude Code and the desktop app. Tasks live in ~/.harness/board/projects/<slug>.yaml. Claude interacts via MCP tools; you interact via the Board page in the desktop app.

This plugin is the MCP surface used by the agent-server during per-card autonomous runs. When the agent's planning phase creates subtasks or the coding phase marks them complete, it calls these same MCP tools.

Requirements

Node.js (installed as part of harness-kit desktop, or via pnpm board:install)

Install

/plugin marketplace add harnessprotocol/harness-kit
/plugin install board@harness-kit

Usage

Open the board

/board

Launches the Board page in the desktop app. If the board server is not running, the plugin prints instructions to start it as a persistent launchd service.

Create a task

/board create Fix login redirect bug

Creates a task in the active project and epic. Returns the task ID.

Check board status

/board status

Shows a summary of all tasks grouped by status column.

Move a task

/board move TASK-42 in-progress
/board move TASK-42 done

Status Columns

The board uses six columns. Use the exact slugs below in MCP tool calls:

Slug	Display name	Meaning
`backlog`	Backlog	Not started
`planning`	Planning	Being scoped or designed
`in-progress`	In Progress	Actively being worked on
`ai-review`	AI Review	Agent finished, awaiting automated check
`human-review`	Human Review	Waiting for a person to sign off
`done`	Done	Complete

MCP Tools

The board plugin exposes these MCP tools (available to Claude Code and to the agent-server's LangGraph pipeline):

Tool	Purpose
`create_project`	Create a new project
`create_epic`	Create an epic
`create_task`	Create a task
`update_task`	Edit title, description, flags
`move_task`	Change status column
`add_comment`	Post a comment (author: `claude` or `user`)
`list_tasks`	Read board state (filterable by epic or status)
`link_branch`	Associate a branch or worktree path
`link_commit`	Attach a commit SHA
`request_review`	Flag task ready for human review
`block_task` / `unblock_task`	Mark or clear blocked status

Workflow Integration

When Claude Code starts work on a task from a terminal session, it can automatically:

Move the task to in-progress and link the working branch
Post progress comments as work proceeds
Flag request_review when done
Move to done after merge

The same tools run during autonomous agent execution via the desktop app's agent-server — see Agentic Task Execution.

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