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24 articles tagged how-to
How to use Hermes Agent for project management
Hermes Agent remembers everything but holds no plan. How to connect it to a real board over MCP: tickets from chat, a morning digest, triage, and delegation.
How to use Block's Buzz for project management
Block's Buzz gives humans and AI agents one signed workspace but deliberately skips issue tracking. How to pair a Buzz relay with a real board over MCP.
How to use Grok Bot for project management
How to use Grok Bot with Taskfolk for project management: connect each Bot as a named member over the REST API, surface its approvals, and read its sessions.
Grok project management: give xAI's coding agent a real board
How to use Grok Build, xAI's coding agent, for real project management: connect it to a shared board over MCP, delegate tickets, and read its sessions.
The agent's pull request is 80 percent right. Now what?
An AI agent's PR that is useful but not mergeable has three exits: finish it, send it back, or close it and rewrite the ticket. How to pick in five minutes.
Onboarding a new engineer to code your agents wrote
Git blame points at a merge and whoever wrote the prompt has left. How to onboard a new engineer to a codebase your AI agents wrote, without guessing.
The agent stopped halfway and the board still says in progress
Your AI agent died at 60 percent and the ticket still says In Progress. How to pick up where an agent left off, and stop the board lying about it.
Who reviews your AI agents while you're on holiday
Who reviews AI agent work while you are on holiday? Triage every session, name a second owner, shrink write scope, and set an interrupt threshold.
Sprint planning with two capacities: your team and your agents
Sprint planning with AI agents needs two capacity numbers, not one. Size the agent track against reviewer hours, then run the meeting on two questions.
Did your AI agents actually save time, or did it just feel fast?
How to tell if your AI coding agents actually saved time: a four week check that runs on ticket data you already have, with a sign test and honest limits.
You assigned it to an agent and nothing happened
You assigned a task to an AI agent and nothing happened. Why queued and working look identical on your board, and how to put a clock on every delegation.
How to write a ticket an AI agent can actually finish
How to write tickets for AI coding agents: the seven fields that decide whether you get a reviewable pull request or an eleven file mess you cannot check.
What an AI agent actually costs per task
Work out AI agent cost per task: attribute agent-reported spend to an issue key, divide by completed work rather than attempts, and read the result honestly.
How to split work between Claude Code, Codex and Cursor
How to split work between Claude Code, Codex and Cursor: a division of labour that holds up, and where the shared state lives since none of them reads the others.
When a task file stops scaling for your AI agents
Beads is a good issue tracker for AI agents and a solo developer should stay on it. Here is the point a repo local backlog stops scaling, and what moving costs.
How to pick between RICE, WSJF, ICE and MoSCoW
RICE vs WSJF vs MoSCoW vs ICE, scored on the same twelve backlog items, with the arithmetic, a decision rule, and where each framework quietly breaks.
Turn a PRD into epics, stories, and tasks your AI agents can build
Give your AI coding agents a plan they can build. Paste a PRD or FRD, Taskfolk drafts the backlog, then Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex work it through a workflow you control.
Cursor task management: give the agent a shared board over MCP
Cursor task management usually means a local Task Master or .cursor/rules file. Connect Cursor to a shared board over MCP so the agent reads issues, claims work, and reports sessions humans can review.
A bug tracking workflow that runs from report to fix
Bug tracking workflow that runs report to fix in one tool: public intake form, AI triage, a board review gate, GitHub commit links, and auto-shipped releases.
How to use a kanban board: a complete guide with a real example
Learn how to use a kanban board in Taskfolk: read cards, drag tasks between columns, add and reorder custom columns, set WIP limits, filter, and save views.
How to create an issue
Learn how to create an issue in Taskfolk three ways, pick the right type, fill the dialog, roll up to an epic, and make subtasks. With the real limits named.
How to add board columns
Add, rename, reorder, and delete kanban board columns in Taskfolk: statuses, categories, colours, permissions, and the delete gotchas, with the limits named.
How to automate project management with AI, and what to leave manual
The right order to automate project management with AI: reporting first, intake second, execution agents last, and the decisions that should stay human.
How to prioritize your backlog
Prioritize a backlog in Taskfolk: drag to rank, why rank differs from priority, inline-edit rows, move issues into sprints, and work a long list with keyset paging.
