A kanban board written and designed not for a human team, but to be read and executed by a vibe-coding AI: just one PHP file in the project.
Ykan grew out of a very concrete problem for anyone working with vibe-coding AIs (Claude Code and similar): as a project grows, keeping track of what's done, what's in progress and what's still missing gets complicated — and normal project management tools are built for people opening them in a browser, not for a model that needs to read and update them autonomously while writing code.
The solution is a kanban stripped down to a single PHP file: just drop it into the project and tell the AI to read it. From there, the file becomes the coordination point between whoever is directing the project and the AI executing it.
You start from a simple project idea: describe it to the AI and ask it to turn it into tasks inside Ykan. On large projects that can mean generating hundreds of tasks in one go, organized and linked to each other — all visible, editable and rewritable by hand before a single line of code gets written.
Once the tasks are ready, you just tell the AI to start working: the model opens tasks one at a time, executes them autonomously, and once done moves them itself into the "Done" or "Review" columns, leaving the user free to check, correct or send back any task without having to rewrite the whole plan from scratch.
Ykan started as an internal tool to better manage the projects on this very portal, before possibly being polished into a standalone product. For now it remains a testing ground to figure out which formatting conventions make a kanban truly readable and usable by an AI, not just by a human.