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Ever since agents have become increasingly common in development, I've been scratching my head as to how to control their randomness. Recently, I decided to emulate an issue-tracking and project-management tool for agent-driven workflows.

Kanban is a Rust-based coordination layer designed to provide a feature-rich terminal interface and enforce rigorous workflows. It aims to be versatile and extendable, made to be tailored to any preferred flow. It comes with full git integration and guardrails such that only what truly benefits a project can go through.

The workflow boils down to 4 steps:

1. The model reads the skill to contextualize the requirements

2. It authenticates and receives a strict, schema-validated JSON payload outlining exact files, context, and acceptance criteria

3. Implementation is performed within an automatically isolated Git worktree and branch. The tool tracks progress (e.g., verifying all files were edited) before the task is submitted for review

4. A reviewer (preferably a human) evaluates the submission and manually transitions the task to "Done," which triggers the final merge and cleans up the task-specific environment.

The tool significantly decreases the agent development time, while increasing the human planning phase.

There is more to it than I can cover here, so I'd be happy to answer any questions about the architecture, the workflow, or the insights I gained while using it. For more information, I recommend skimming the README, which acts as an index to all documentation files.

Repo: https://codeberg.org/hydrafog/kanban

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I donate to open source, and I'm loving the new Fresh IDE TUI for teaching students. I found it after trying astronvim, helix, zed, micro, etc.

I'm offering $100 as an incentive for anyone on HN who can add epub reader capabilities to Fresh using Rust.

https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/issues/2087

Spec: in the left-side file explorer, I select file `foo.epub`, then the right-side file viewer shows me the epub content as human-readable text not bytes.

Scope: The goal is to be good enough for a developer to be able to read epub documentation within Fresh in the TUI, without needing to call pandoc or launch a separate app or helper or plugin. Fresh runs locally on the developer's laptop, and the ePub is on a remote server and for security reasons cannot be downloaded to the local laptop.

Implementation: I can suggest trying the Rust crate `epub` and `bookokrat` because these work well for me in other projects. The implementation can't use JavaScript or TypeScript because of compliance aspects beyond me.

As an aside, I'm not affiliated with Fresh in any way, other than as a happy user and open source sponsor.

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