Ezida v0.2.0
open source · go · mit · v0.2.0

A Kanban board
your agents can drive.

Ezida is a file-based Kanban for software projects. One Go binary, one versioned kanban.toml at the repo root — no server, no database. Driven from the CLI, or by any AI assistant that reads Claude Code skills.

Install Try the demo → View on GitHub → Read the docs
the board
kanban.toml
the cli
ezida
the agent
SKILL.md
agent-ready

Built for humans and agents.

Humans and AI assistants share one source of truth — the kanban.toml file in your repo. No separate service to integrate, no API keys to provision, no permissions to grant. The agent runs the same CLI a human would.

From the terminal

$ ezida list --column=todo
$ ezida add "Refactor auth" --column=todo --priority=high --tags=security
$ ezida move a3f2k9 ongoing
$ ezida edit a3f2k9 --priority=medium
$ ezida rm a3f2k9 --yes

From an agent

"Add a high-priority card 'Refactor auth' to todo, tagged security."

"Move card a3f2k9 to ongoing."

"What's in the todo column?"

With .claude/skills/ezida-kanban/SKILL.md committed, Claude Code (and any agent that reads Claude Code skills) picks it up automatically and runs the same commands on your behalf.

web ui · ezida serve

Prefer a visual board? Run one command.

ezida serve launches a local Web UI bound to 127.0.0.1:7777 and opens it in your default browser. The page is read and write: click a card to edit inline, drag to reorder or move between columns, add columns from the header, filter, switch theme. It hot-reloads on every change to kanban.toml — yours, the CLI's, or the agent's.

Screenshot of the Ezida web UI: four columns (BACKLOG, TODO, ONGOING, DONE) with cards showing tasks and priority tags.
The ezida serve web UI, hot-reloading from kanban.toml.

Try the live demo → In-memory · changes don't persist · uses Ezida's own kanban.toml.

install

One command. macOS or Linux.

The installer detects your OS and architecture, downloads the matching tarball plus checksums.txt from the latest GitHub Release, verifies the SHA256, and installs ezida to ~/.local/bin/ezida. 

$ curl -sSL https://github.com/nicolasvergoz/ezida-kanban/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh

Supported: macOS (arm64, amd64), Linux (arm64, amd64). Pin a version with EZIDA_VERSION=v0.2.0. Manual install →

Then, in any repo

$ cd my-project/
$ ezida init

Creates kanban.toml at the project root and .claude/skills/ezida-kanban/SKILL.md — the embedded skill for AI assistants. Commit both.

what makes it different

Three constraints, one tool.

Ezida is opinionated about what it isn't. The board is a file. The file is in git. Everything else follows.

  • File-based

    The board is a single TOML file at the repo root. Branches, PRs, blame and history all apply — because the board is code.

  • No server

    One Go binary, around 10 MB. No database, no daemon, no account. The Web UI binds 127.0.0.1 on demand.

  • Versioned by default

    Every move is a commit if you want it. Branch the board, review changes in a PR, roll back — the way you do code.

  • CLI-first

    add, move, list, edit, rm. Fast, scriptable, pipeable.

  • Local Web UI

    ezida serve launches a hot-reloading board on 127.0.0.1:7777. Drag, edit, filter, theme.

  • Agent-ready

    An embedded SKILL.md drops in your repo at init. Claude Code picks it up automatically.

etymology

Why "Ezida"?

The Ezida icon — a stylised carved sandstone temple gate, the three pediment columns labelled TODO, DOING, DONE.

Ezida (literally House of Truth, from the Akkadian é-zi-da) was the temple of Nabu — the Mesopotamian god of writing, scribes, and record-keeping — located in Borsippa, near Babylon.

More than a place of worship, it was one of the great archives of the ancient world. Thousands of cuneiform tablets were stored there, with scribes meticulously copying, cataloguing, and signing their work: early librarians, in a sense.

The name felt right for a tool whose job is exactly that — a small, versioned place that lives in your repo, where a project keeps track of what it's working on, what's done, and what's still ahead.

roadmap

The roadmap is, fittingly,
a kanban.toml.

Ezida tracks its own work in the same format you'll use. Browse the live board: kanban.toml on GitHub, or try the live demo → to interact with it.