Vibe Kanban alternative: keep your agents, move the board
By Andrei Finogeev, founder of Weft ·
Bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban, shut down on April 10, 2026. Vibe Kanban itself lives on as a community-maintained open-source project, but its cloud is gone and, since version 0.1.44, the app no longer has an interactive kanban board: what is left is the agent runner — a branch, a terminal and a dev server per agent. If you used Vibe Kanban to plan and track the work, you need a new board. Weft is one: a hosted Scrumban board that Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and ChatGPT work from over MCP, with a CSV import that reads Vibe Kanban's export as it is.
What happened to Vibe Kanban
- Bloop announces it is shutting down: most users were on the free plan and the company "couldn't find a business model". The project is to continue open source and community maintained. New paid checkouts stop the same day, and an export of cloud data is added.
- Version 0.1.44 replaces the kanban board and project pages with an export-only shutdown screen. The README now opens with "Vibe Kanban is sunsetting".
- The 30 days of remote services end. Cloud issues, comments, projects and organisations are removed; local workspaces keep working.
- The GitHub repository is not archived (Apache-2.0, about 28,600 stars) and still gets commits, mostly agent support. The last GitHub release is still 0.1.44.
What still works, and what is gone
Still works
- Running coding agents locally with npx vibe-kanban: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor, OpenCode and others
- A workspace per agent: its own git branch, terminal and dev server
- Reviewing the diff, commenting back to the agent and opening a pull request
Gone
- The interactive kanban board and project pages
- Cloud issues, comments, projects and organisations, and with them team use
- Paid plans and any support from the original team
Your options
Many people in the project's own community thread say they used Vibe Kanban mainly to run agents in parallel, and one suggests connecting agents to a task manager of your choice over MCP. That splits the decision in two: what runs the agents, and where the tasks live.
| Option | What you get | What you give up |
|---|---|---|
| Keep Vibe Kanban for running agents | The workspaces, diffs and pull requests you already know, free and local | A board: there is nowhere to plan or see what is in progress across agents |
| A community fork | Some forks bring back the old board | None had real traction on Nov 11, 2026 — the largest had about 70 stars |
| Weft as the board, any runner for the agents | A hosted board your agents read and update over MCP: they claim a task, report progress, finish with what was done, and ask you when only you can decide | Weft does not run agents or create worktrees — your agent still runs in your terminal, IDE or Vibe Kanban workspace |
| A team tracker with an MCP server | Linear, Jira, Notion and others now have official MCP servers | They are built for people first; see what each server can do in our guides |
Move your tasks to Weft
- 01
Get your tasks out of Vibe Kanban
If you exported before the cloud closed, open issues.csv from the ZIP: it has Title, Description, Status, Priority and Due Date columns. If you used an older local version, your tasks may still be in the local database; the command below writes them to a CSV file.
Local tasks to CSV (Linux path; on macOS the folder is ~/Library/Application Support/ai.bloop.vibe-kanban)sqlite3 -header -csv ~/.local/share/vibe-kanban/db.v2.sqlite "select title, description, status from tasks" > vibe-kanban-tasks.csv - 02
Create a free Weft board
Sign up and you get Backlog, Todo, Doing and Done columns. The free plan holds up to 50 active tasks.
- 03
Import the CSV
Open Export & import in the menu and choose the file. Title, Description, Status, Priority and Due Date are matched automatically, and statuses such as todo, inprogress, inreview, done and cancelled land in Todo, Doing or Done — you can change any mapping before importing.
- 04
Connect your agent
In Claude Code, run the command below and sign in when asked. Codex, Cursor and 30+ other clients connect the same way.
Claude Codeclaude mcp add --transport http weft https://letsweft.com/api/mcp - 05
Keep running agents where you like
Ask the agent to take the next task. It claims it on the board, works in your terminal, IDE or a Vibe Kanban workspace, and finishes it with a short report.
Questions
Is Vibe Kanban shut down?
The company behind it, Bloop, shut down on April 10, 2026, and its cloud services were removed after 30 days. The open-source project continues under community maintenance, but since version 0.1.44 it no longer has an interactive kanban board.
Can I still export my Vibe Kanban issues?
The official export worked only while the cloud was up, for 30 days after the announcement. Tasks from older local versions may still be in the local SQLite database and can be read with sqlite3.
Does Weft run agents in git worktrees like Vibe Kanban?
No. Weft is the board, not the runner: your agent runs wherever you run it, and reads and updates its tasks in Weft over MCP. You can keep using Vibe Kanban workspaces for the running part.
Which agents work with Weft?
Any client that supports remote MCP servers, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot — 30+ in all.
Is Weft free?
Yes, up to 50 active tasks. Pro is $7 per seat a month or $60 a year.
Sources
Read on 11 November 2026.