# Vibe Kanban - Orchestrate AI Coding Agents

> An open-source kanban layer for running multiple local coding agents in parallel, optimising the planning and review work that now bottlenecks shipping.

Published: 2026-05-20
URL: https://daniliants.com/insights/vibe-kanban-orchestrate-ai-coding-agents/
Tags: ai-agents, coding-agents, claude-code, codex, parallel-agents, git-worktrees, dev-tooling

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## Summary

Vibe Kanban is an open-source orchestration layer (26.4k GitHub stars, 30k+ users) for running multiple local coding agents in parallel, such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and others, behind a kanban board. Its core thesis: with agents now doing the coding, the human bottleneck has shifted from writing code to planning and reviewing it, so the tool optimises those two activities.

## Key Insight

- **Bottleneck has moved.** Shipping speed is no longer gated by sequential engineer throughput but by how fast a human can plan tasks and review agent output. Optimise planning and review, not coding.
- **Parallelism kills idle time.** A single agent leaves you blocked while it runs. Splitting work into multiple streams lets you switch attention to whatever is ready for review, with no dead time.
- **Avoid model lock-in.** Bets that frontier labs and app-layer startups will leapfrog each other for 12+ months. Tool deliberately abstracts the agent so you can swap Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode without changing your workflow.
- **Concrete mechanics:** automates git worktree creation and setup scripts per task, runs dev servers, lets you comment on AI-generated code and QA changes, breaks work into issues and sub-issues.
- **Traction signal:** 100,000 PRs created via the tool, 30k+ active users, real adoption, not vapourware.