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title: Kanban board
description: Plan work as cards and hand each card to an agent.
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The **Kanban** view is a task board for your project. Each card is a task with a priority, labels and comments. Columns follow the task's status: backlog, open, in progress, test, review, and done.

The board is built on [Beads](https://github.com/gastownhall/beads), a small task tracker that lives in your repository, so your agents can read and update it too. If Beads isn't installed yet, the board offers **Install or Update Beads**.

## Hand a card to an agent

Click **Start work** on a card. Ghostex starts an agent on that task and links the session to the card, so you can see who is working on what.

With the Project Board skill installed (Settings > Integrations), agents move their own cards as they go: they claim a card, comment on their progress, move it to test or review, and close it when done.

## Let an agent run the board

Ask an agent something like "work the high-priority cards on the board". It picks cards and starts a helper agent for each one.

:::tip[Ask Ghostex]
Try "What does the Kanban board do, and how do I start work on a card?"
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