KanbanThing

com.kanbanthingPublished by kanbanthing.comOfficial publisherv0.1.0Updated Nov 2, 2026

Create and drive KanbanThing kanban boards. No account, no API key, board link required.

VerifiedStreamable HTTPWeb executableProductivity & WorkflowCommunication & Collaboration

Overview

AI-generated overview

Create and drive shared KanbanThing kanban boards — boards, columns and cards — with no account or API key, just a board link and password.

What you can do
  • Create a board and get back its id, shareable URL and password
  • Read a board's name, expiry, columns and per-column card counts, and list columns left to right
  • List cards on a board, optionally limited to one column
  • Add cards to a column, move cards between columns, and edit a card's title, description, due date or colour
  • Permanently delete a card from a board
When to use it
For short-lived shared work with an end in sight: a retrospective, a small project, or a personal board restarted every few weeks. Useful when an assistant should set up and update a board a person can open in a browser via a link.
Requirements
A remote endpoint at kanbanthing.com over streamable HTTP; no account, email, API key or environment variables. The board id and its password are needed to read or change an existing board.
Before you install
Every board is password protected; the password returned by create_board is the only way in, so share it only with intended users. Card deletion is permanent and cannot be undone, and card edits and moves change data others may be viewing. Boards are deleted up to 60 days after creation, so copy out anything worth keeping. There are no accounts, teams or permissions beyond the board password and read-only link.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open KanbanThing in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/com.kanbanthing%2Fkanban/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kanbanthing": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.kanbanthing.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

KanbanThing

A free kanban board you can share with a link. No account, no email, no install.

https://www.kanbanthing.com

You name a board, choose a password, and get a link. Anyone you send that link to opens the same board and moves the same cards. That last part is the point — most free no-signup kanban tools keep the board in one browser's local storage, so it can never really be shared. This one is shared by default.

What it does

  • Columns you can add, rename and reorder, starting from To Do, In Progress and Done
  • Cards with a description, a colour and a due date, moved by drag and drop or from the card menu
  • A backlog for work that is not scheduled yet
  • A calendar view of the same cards by due date, and a timeline view by most recent activity
  • A password on every board, set when the board is created, plus a read-only link for people who should see the board but not change it
  • Light and dark appearance, following your system setting
  • A command line client with --json on every command, so a script or an AI agent can drive the same board a person has open in a browser — see the CLI docs

What it does not do

There are no accounts, no teams, no permissions and no paid tier. Boards are deleted up to 60 days after they are created, so copy out anything you want to keep.

If you need long-lived project history, this is the wrong tool, and that is on purpose. It suits work with an end in sight: a retrospective, a short project, or a personal board you start again every few weeks.

Guides

Built with

Next.js, React, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, with Supabase for storage. Made and maintained by Tron Schell.

Running it locally

Requires Node 20 or newer and a Supabase project.

bash
npm installnpm run dev

Set NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL and NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY in .env.local. The SQL that builds the schema lives in db/, applied in filename order.

bash
npm run build       # production buildnpm test            # vitestnpm run typecheck   # tsc --noEmitnpm run lint        # eslint

Source: README.md at commit 16142a5

Tools

8

create_board

Create a Kanban board

Create a new KanbanThing board and return its id, shareable URL and password. No sign-up. Every board is password protected: pass `password` to choose one, otherwise a random password is generated and returned. Give both the URL and the password to whoever should use the board. Boards are deleted when they expire.

Parametersnamerequiredcolumnspasswordlifespan_days

get_board

Get a board

Read a board by id: its name, expiry, columns and how many cards each column holds.

Parametersboard_idrequiredpassword

list_columns

List columns

List the columns on a board, left to right, with their ids.

Parametersboard_idrequiredpassword

list_cards

List cards

List the cards on a board, optionally only those in one column.

Parameterslimitcolumnboard_idrequiredpassword

create_card

Create a card

Add a card to a column on a board. Lands in Backlog when no column is given.

Parameterscolortitlerequiredcolumnboard_idrequireddue_datepassworddescription

move_card

Move a card

Move a card to another column on the same board, at the end of that column.

Parameterscolumnrequiredcard_idrequiredboard_idrequiredpassword

update_card

Update a card

Change a card title, description, due date or colour. Pass null to clear a field. Use move_card to change column.

Parameterscolortitlecard_idrequiredboard_idrequireddue_datepassworddescription

delete_card

Delete a card

Permanently delete a card from a board. This cannot be undone.

Parameterscard_idrequiredboard_idrequiredpassword

Version history

1
  1. v0.1.0LatestSep 16, 2026

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