Case
Vlot
Own productA scrum board on which an AI agent is a full participant: its own account, its own token, its own trail in the history.
What & why
A scrum board you run yourself, on the model everyone already knows: projects, work items with a readable key (VLOT-42), time-boxed sprints, story points, and columns that are the workflow. Dragging cards, WIP limits, labels, epics, lanes by person or epic, comments, attachments, and a history that names the actor behind every change. The difference is underneath: the REST API and the MCP server are the product, and the web interface is one of their clients — your browser calls exactly what an agent calls.
We build with AI agents, and they have to be able to read what needs doing and to write down what they did. There are two answers to that. Either the agent borrows a human's account, and the history lies about who did what. Or the agent gets an identity of its own, and the board stays readable. We chose the second, and it fitted no existing board: those assume only people work on them.
Approach
- The actor model first: human and agent are both actors, each with their own permissions and their own token. Nothing impersonates anyone, and a card created by an agent says so on the board.
- The API is the product. Renaming a column, starting a sprint, dragging a card: all of them are calls to the same /api/v1 the browser uses. There is no endpoint only the web interface knows.
- An MCP server with twenty tools alongside it, so an agent reads the active sprint, creates items, moves them and comments on them. Deleting is deliberately not among them.
- Signing in through an identity provider (OIDC), with a token as the way in the moment that provider is unreachable.
- Running on your own infrastructure: the application plus PostgreSQL in Docker Compose, migrations in the entrypoint, and no telemetry, no CDN, no external fonts — what the browser loads comes from your own server.
- Licensed under the AGPL, with the source, the documentation and the recorded design decisions included.
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