Developer Akshay Pachaar has released a system in which a team of four AI agents — a Project Manager, Backend Developer, Frontend Developer and Tester — coordinate tasks on a shared Kanban board to build applications. The setup is fully open source and can be operated and monitored via Telegram.
Open Source · Agentic Engineering
Four AI Agents, One Kanban Board — Building Apps as a Team
A fully open-source system pairs a Project Manager, Backend, Frontend and Tester agent that coordinate through a shared board — claiming tasks, posting summaries and carrying context across long workflows, all monitorable from Telegram.
4
Specialized agent roles working in parallel
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Shared Kanban board as single source of truth
24/7
Self-hosted on local, VPS or serverless
The Workflow Loop
PM
Reads goal, splits into linked tasks, assigns
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Backend
DB, auth, storage, functions
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Frontend
Assembles UI from API summary
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Each agent posts a structured summary to its card. The next agent reads it to carry context forward — no human "glue," and the frontend never has to guess the API shape.
The Open-Source Stack
Hermes Agent
Self-improving core with persistent memory, auto-generated skills and Telegram support
InsForge
Agent-native backend integrating DB, auth, storage and functions
Hermes Kanban
SQLite + Flask task board with REST API and Telegram notifications
Praised For
Context carried via structured summaries
Kanban as a single source of truth
Crash-resilient tasks stored as SQLite rows
Mobile monitoring through Telegram
Open Limits
Backend construction stays difficult
Evaluation — the "right" tests — unsolved
Full autonomy not reached; human review needed
Team-sharing and permissions limited
Positioned as a practical example of agentic engineering — defined roles, shared memory and observability — and compared with issue-solving agents like Devin and Sweep and parallel tools such as Vibe Kanban.
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