Vibe Kanban allows you to orchestrate and parallelize proprietary code agents to further optimize your productivity.
What if the software engineer of tomorrow was just a conductor of agents? In any case, this is the bet of Bloop AI, a start-up founded in 2021 in London and specialized in code modernization using AI. In 2025, the company developed Vibe Kanban, a code agent orchestration tool. The objective? Organize and parallelize AI agent instances to maximize developer productivity. Rather than being limited to a single instance of Claude Code running in the background, a developer can now run multiple tasks simultaneously with a variety of AI agents.
The project, developed internally, was first shared with a small community of developers around the company before being made fully open source on GitHub. Since its launch in July 2025 and a succession of updates, the tool has experienced growing success and in January 2026 has more than 18,000 stars on GitHub.
The principle of Vibe Kanban
Concretely, Vibe Kanban works like a classic Kanban board. Five columns make up the main interface:
- To Do: allows you to create tasks to do later
- In Progress: groups together the tasks assigned to each agent
- In Review: cross-references tasks that need your attention to move forward
- Done: completed tasks
- Canceled: canceled tasks
Vibe Kanban works locally with a small web server and an interface that can be viewed directly in your browser. Currently, the system supports Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Gemini CLI, Cursor CLI, Opencode, Qwen Code and Factory Droid. The tool is completely free, only the uses of the different agents are billed by the respective publishers. Vibe Kanban differs from simple model orchestrators because instead of orchestrating models, the tool orchestrates native agents. Concretely, Vibe Kanban will use an instance of Claude Code and not simply Claude via its API. This is the power of the tool. So, if you have a subscription to Claude Code, Codex, or even Gemini CLI (partially free), you will not pay any additional costs.
Each agent instance launched from Vibe Kanban is chrooted (with Git worktrees) in a dedicated and isolated work environment. In this way, if Claude Code and Gemini CLI work in parallel, they will not interfere, whether in terms of modified files or ports used, for example for local servers.
How to install and use Vibe Kanban?
To install Vibe Kanban, nothing could be simpler. Simply have version 18 or higher of Node.js installed on your machine and run: npx vibe-kanban. To work, your agents must have been configured beforehand, one by one. That’s the only complexity. Once the agents are configured, the tool will use them directly in complete autonomy.
Once Vibe Kanban is installed, the interface automatically opens in your browser at http://127.0.0.1:61786/. You must then create a new project. And that’s it. No additional configuration is required, you can now launch your agents in parallel.
The tool integrates natively with VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Intelli J, Zed, Xcode and Google Antigravity
Create a web game in minutes
For the test, we decide to create a small web game, a sort of copy of Chrome’s T-Rex. We then launch an agent to generate the main code with Claude Code, an agent to design and refine the UX of the interface with Gemini CLI (which excels in design) and a Codex agent to optimize the code already generated. Within minutes, all three agents are working on the project simultaneously. Claude Code quickly generates the game structure with jump and collision logic, while Gemini CLI tackles interface design with custom sprites and smooth animations. For its part, Codex analyzes the product code and suggests performance optimizations.
Each agent has its own context and its own branch of work. When a task goes to “In Review”, you can validate the modifications, request adjustments or merge the changes directly into the main branch. The Kanban board provides a clear overview of the project’s progress and makes it easy to reassign a task from one agent to another if necessary. In the end, our clone of the Chrome dinosaur is up and running in less than an hour, with clean code and a neat interface. Without Vibe Kanban, you would have had to manually juggle several terminals and manage potential conflicts between the different modifications yourself.
The only downside is that managing branches and merges can be confusing for users unfamiliar with Git and GitHub. Vibe Kanban relies on Git to isolate the work of each agent, which involves juggling multiple branches and sometimes resolving conflicts when merging code. Nothing insurmountable for a seasoned developer, but a potential obstacle for non-specialists.
The power of owner agents in a simple interface
The real strength of Vibe Kanban lies in its ability to orchestrate not simple models, but complete scaffolds (proprietary code agents with their underlying model). Rather than simply sending prompts to different APIs, the tool leverages the full capabilities of each agent in its native environment. This approach makes it possible to strategically assign tasks according to the strengths of each agent: Claude Code for his versatility on all types of tasks, Gemini CLI for his excellence in UX and interface design, Codex for his mastery of the backend and code optimization. This intelligent specialization increases productivity tenfold, provided of course that you know the strong points of each agent.
Still, Vibe Kanban is not a plug-and-play tool for beginners. Using it to its full capacity requires a certain amount of intellectual gymnastics: understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each agent, mastering the concepts of Git (branches, worktrees, merges), and knowing how to effectively break down a project into parallelizable tasks. The learning curve may be off-putting for users unfamiliar with these concepts. But if we accept the initial effort, Vibe Kanban embodies a logical evolution of AI-assisted dev and really allows you to increase your productivity.
