Pandan

A small kanban board you run on your own machine — with an MCP server, so you can see what your coding agents are actually doing.

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Agents do a lot of work you never see. Pandan gives them somewhere to write it down, and gives you a board that updates while they work.

• Runs on localhost. One Node process, one SQLite file. No database to set up, no account, nothing leaves your machine.
• Agents can read and write it. A built-in MCP server with 19 tools, none of them destructive. An agent finds them itself — you do not have to explain your API to it.
• The board updates live. A card an agent adds appears in about a second. No refresh.
• Small enough to read. Around 2,300 lines. You can check what it does before you trust it with your work.

The board

Keep as many boards as you like — one for work, one for home. The switcher is in the top bar, and it remembers which one you had open. A project can be moved between boards, and deleting a board takes its projects with it.

On a board, rows are projects. Columns are `To do`, `Next`, `Doing`, `Review` and `Done`, with `Next` and `Doing` grouped under **In progress**.

**Review** is where an agent puts work it wants you to look at. It is a signal, not a gate — an agent can still move a card straight to `Done` when the work plainly needs no checking. The point is that it can tell you which is which.

Cards carry a label colour, a due date, a flag, notes and a checklist. Late cards go red. Right-click one to recolour it, and name a colour to turn it into a real label such as "Blocked". The search box filters the whole board as you type, and rows can be dragged into the order you want.

**Nothing is deleted.** Ar