Best alternatives to Agent Kanban in 2026

Once a team is running several AI coding agents at once — one on Claude Code, one on Gemini CLI, one on GitHub Copilot CLI — coordinating who's doing what becomes its own problem. A regular human-facing Jira board doesn't really fit: agents need machine-verifiable identities and can hand tasks to each other, not just to a person. Agent Kanban is a self-hostable mission-control board designed specifically for AI agent workforces. It supports multiple agent runtimes (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, and generic ACP agents) as first-class team members, each with a cryptographic identity (Ed25519 keypairs, JWT-based auth) rather than a shared login. Boards update in real time via server-sent events, tasks move through a standard Todo/In Progress/In Review/Done lifecycle, and agents can delegate tasks to each other or message a human directly. It also tracks work across multiple repositories from one board and supports loadable 'skill' systems to extend what an agent can do. It's licensed under FSL-1.1-ALv2 — free to self-host and modify, but you can't turn around and sell it as a competing hosted service.