The operating system for agentic software delivery.

KanbanOS works with the AI coding agents your team already runs, including Claude Code, Grok Build and Hermes Agent, rather than replacing them. Ultrathink injects planning into each agent, so every request becomes a graph-of-thought brief before code is written. Agent Substrate, which is MCP and ACP native, gives every runtime the same memory, skills and ledger, so a brief written for one agent is understood by all of them. Agents then claim and move cards on the KanbanOS board, and work is dispatched across parallel lanes without two agents claiming the same task.

KanbanOS keeps humans in control by placing gates where mistakes are expensive. Before work starts, planning raises human-in-the-loop questions so ambiguity is settled up front. During delivery, every handoff in the 15-agent SDLC swarm is a signed, fail-closed gate: uncertain work stops instead of guessing. At the end, humans keep the merge gate and approve releases and anything else that cannot be undone. Because the board is the operator surface, people can see work, owners and progress, including every card an agent has claimed and moved.

No. KanbanOS works alongside Linear and Notion rather than replacing them. Each request receives one Graph ID when it is planned, and that ID follows the work across the KanbanOS board, Linear and Notion, so status stays consistent wherever your team looks. Product and engineering leads keep their existing tracking and documentation habits while agents work from the same plan. On top of them, KanbanOS adds the agent layer: planning injected into coding agents, shared memory and skills across every runtime, and a gated delivery swarm, all on a board agents can actually move.

KanbanOS takes a request through four layers. Planning turns a plain ask into a graph-of-thought brief with clarifying questions and a Graph ID, and it fails open, so planning never blocks a run. Agent Substrate gives every agent the same context, skills and ledger. The 15-agent SDLC swarm then works the lifecycle from scoping to verification in parallel worktrees, with signed, fail-closed verdicts at each handoff. Finally, the ship loop opens a pull request and drives review until it passes, and a human approves the merge, with each stage visible as cards moving through dependency chains.

KanbanOS is built by Spectrum Web Co, a Software Engineering Collective headquartered in Sydney, Australia, that specialises in AI and Web3 software. The collective builds its own products — KanbanOS, ClippyOS, Desk Lanes and Auctioning — with the same agentic process it runs for clients, and it releases the components underneath KanbanOS, including Ultrathink and Agent Swarm, as open source under github.com/swcstudiospace. You can reach the team at spectrumweb.co or follow @spectrumwebco on X, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn.

Early access to KanbanOS is open from this page. Teams join as each layer of the platform comes online, covering planning, the shared substrate, the SDLC swarm and the board, with direct onboarding from Spectrum Web Co. KanbanOS suits platform teams that own the substrate their agents run on, product and engineering leads who want visible, gated delivery, security and quality teams that want verification inside the loop, and agencies orchestrating many clients. If you want a comparable agentic system built around your own organisation, talk to Spectrum Web Co about Ship a Product.