For people who build with AI agents

Stop babysittingyour agents.

Tomrade is a board your agents update themselves, and a terminal that shows every one of them. Say what you want; they do it, and only come to you when it's your call.

Preview Version 0.28.0, released November 6, 2026

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Local-first
No account
Free and open source
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See how

Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
Gemini CLI
OpenCode
WorkBuddy
Pi
any agent that speaks MCP
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
Gemini CLI
OpenCode
WorkBuddy
Pi
any agent that speaks MCP

What it is

A board.The agents keep it up.

Three steps, from one sentence to merged pull requests.

01
One sentence becomes tickets
Say what you want. The assistant splits it into tickets sized for one pull request each, in order. Don't like it? One click takes the whole run back.
02
Agents work in your own terminal
Claude Code, Codex and Cursor run where they always did. They claim a ticket, branch and open the pull request, and the board follows git on its own.
03
Sleep on it. It's merged.
An auto run works down the dependency graph, one ticket after another, and merges only once the checks pass. Wake up to the result.

Why use it

Without it,the babysitter is you.

Without Tomrade

With Tomrade

A dozen agents open, and you ask each one how it's going.

Agents claim their tickets and report back. They only come to you when it's your call.

An agent asked a question in a terminal. You saw it much later.

The pane and the status bar say at once which one is waiting for you.

Every session starts from zero.

Ideas, tickets and decisions stay in the backlog; the next run picks up from there.

Something changed, and nobody knows who changed it.

Every write is attributed and grouped by run. One click takes a whole run back.

Notes in one app, to-dos in another, feedback in a third.

Files, notes, the inbox and the tickets live in one place, and the agents can read them too.

1sentencebecomes tickets
8pull requestsmerged overnight
0babysittingthe board keeps up
0accountsit lives on your machine
0to payfree and open source

How it differs

Other tools run the agents.Tomrade runs the work.

It isn't another editor, and it doesn't run the model that writes your code. Your agent still does that, wherever you like to run it.

Agent tools

Orca, Cursor and the like

Run several agents at once
Keep them out of each other's way
Review the code they wrote

Tomrade

Keeps hold of the work

What agents should do, and in what order
Where every piece of it stands
What changed, and how to take it back

Different jobs, so use them together: in an Orca worktree or a Cursor chat, the agent claims its ticket from Tomrade over MCP. Read the full comparison →

Next to other tools, line by line

What you want	Orca	Linear	Copilot cloud agent	Vibe Kanban	Tomrade
A backlog that lasts: tickets, and what waits on what	a task is a worktree, linked to a GitHub, Linear or Jira item	✓	starts from a GitHub issue	✓	✓
The agents in your own terminal	✓	—	runs in the cloud	✓	✓
A ticket's status follows its pull request	—	✓	—	✓	✓
An agent's writes to tickets, notes and settings: a whole run, one click back	—	—	—	code only: edit a message to replay	✓
Auto run down the dependency graph, merged once checks pass	scheduled prompts; GitHub auto-merge on a pull request	—	—	merge by hand	✓
Free and open source	✓	free up to 250 issues	needs a paid plan	✓	✓
No account; a project is a folder on your disk	runs on your desktop	cloud; data kept in the US or EU	cloud; needs a paid plan	sign in with GitHub or Google first	✓

A backlog of its own, the agents on your machine, a whole run of ticket writes taken back, and an overnight run down the dependency graph: only Tomrade has all four.

A tick or a few words comes from each product's own site and docs, and for Orca and Vibe Kanban from their public source repositories too; — means none of those mention it, not that it cannot. Vibe Kanban's site says the project is sunsetting and continues as community-maintained open source. Checked on 2026-11-14, from: orca.dev · linear.app/agents · linear.app/docs/github · linear.app/pricing · docs.github.com (Copilot cloud agent) · vibekanban.com · orca.dev/docs · linear.app/docs/security · docs.github.com (starting a Copilot session) · github.com/stablyai/orca @ea92ef7e · github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban @5f06193

Four things Tomrade is built for

01
Status follows git
Branch, pull request, merge: the ticket moves by itself. Nobody drags a card.
02
A whole run, one click back
The tickets, notes and settings an agent wrote through Tomrade are grouped by run, and can all be taken back.
03
Overnight, down the dependency graph
Pick the tickets, set the limits, and an auto run works through them, merging only what passes its checks.
04
Everything on your machine
A project is a folder on your disk. It works without an account.

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