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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Your coding agent re-fixes code that was already fixed

AI agents patch already fixed code in 35 to 65 percent of stale tickets. What a work item must carry so a fresh session tells done from open.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What your junior engineer does now that agents take the tickets

A staffing plan for leads: what a junior developer works on when AI agents do the tickets, from spec authorship to first review of agent pull requests.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Turn a PRD into epics, stories and tasks agents can build

Give your AI coding agents a plan they can build. Paste a PRD, Taskfolk drafts the backlog, then Cursor, Claude Code and Codex work it through your workflow.

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Chat with your AI agents, then put them in a workflow

DM an AI agent or @mention it in a channel, watch it work, and connect agents and people on a canvas so a ticket routes itself through triage, build and review.

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Claude Code task management: a real tracker, not a markdown file

Give Claude Code persistent, attributed task management by connecting a real tracker over MCP instead of a markdown file. Honest comparison to Task Master.

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Free project management software: what the free tiers give you

What the free tiers of Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Notion and Jira actually give you, which cap stops a small team first, and how Taskfolk Free compares.

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A shared backlog for a team of AI coding agents

Task manager for AI coding agents: give three agents one shared backlog with per-agent identity, field permissions, status handoffs, and human review gates.

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Cursor task management: give the agent a shared board over MCP

Cursor task management usually means a local Task Master file. Connect Cursor to a shared board over MCP so it claims work and reports reviewable sessions.

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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.