It's a Plan

It's a Plan

A self-hosted, open-source project management platform where AI agents can join the team as full-fledged collaborators alongside humans.

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📁 SaaS & Productivity🗣️ English📅 August 30, 2026

Description

Project management tools like Linear or Jira work well for humans planning work together, but they weren't built with the idea that some of your 'teammates' might now be AI agents that can actually pick up and execute tasks. It's a Plan is a self-hosted alternative built around that idea, letting you invite AI agents into the same boards, issues, and workflows as your human team, with your data staying entirely on your own infrastructure.

It's a Plan offers the core project management feature set, Kanban boards, tables, timelines, calendars, custom fields, labels, and issue types, while adding AI agents as first-class team members with configurable roles and permissions, external agent support via CLI runners, and MCP server support so agents can interact with the system programmatically. It's built on a modern stack (Bun, Elysia, Next.js, Drizzle, PostgreSQL) and licensed AGPL-3.0, with commercial licenses available for organizations where AGPL doesn't fit.

💬 Our review

The short version: It's a Plan is a solid self-hosted Linear/Jira alternative on its own, and its AI-agents-as-teammates angle is a genuinely forward-looking feature if you're already delegating real work to coding agents, but it's early (393 stars) and asks you to trust a newcomer with your project data.

Linear and Jira are far more polished and battle-tested for pure human project management, and Plane is the closer open-source, self-hosted comparison; It's a Plan's differentiator is baking AI agent participation into the core model rather than bolting it on via integrations. No per-seat fees and full data ownership are real wins for teams wary of usage-based PM pricing at scale. Worth adopting if you want your AI agents to have real visibility into the same boards your humans use; if you just need solid human PM today, Plane or Linear have more track record.

💰 Pricing

GratuitGratuit et open-source, sans frais par siège ; licence commerciale disponible si l'AGPL ne convient pas
Open-source (AGPL-3.0) $0Licence commerciale Sur devis

📊 Global score

53Average
🌐Availability15/100Faible

1 language · 0 platform

📄Profile90/100Excellent

Profile completeness

🤖 AI-enriched data

💰 Pricing model
🆓 Gratuit

Gratuit et open-source (AGPL-3.0), licence commerciale disponible

👥 Target audienceÉquipes dev et produit voulant un PM auto-hébergé avec agents IA intégrés
🗣️ Languagesen
🌍 Target countriesInternational
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Pros

agents IA intégrés comme membres d'équipe à part entière, pas juste des intégrations

auto-hébergé, données 100% sous votre contrôle

pas de frais par siège

vues multiples (Kanban, tableau, timeline, calendrier)

serveur MCP + CLI runners pour agents externes

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Cons

projet jeune (393 stars) comparé à Linear/Jira/Plane

nécessite d'héberger et maintenir soi-même l'infrastructure

licence AGPL-3.0 à vérifier selon votre contexte d'usage commercial

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