A Vibe Kanban alternative
for people who live in the terminal
Vibe Kanban is sunsetting. It earned its 27k stars — a genuinely useful kanban for dispatching many coding-agent CLIs. If it was part of your workflow, you need somewhere for that workflow to go.
HormesisWorkspace approaches the same job from the other side: not a board that dispatches agents, but a live workspace where the terminals are the real thing — and the agents can operate the workspace itself.
Side by Side
| HormesisWorkspace | Vibe Kanban | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Live terminal workspace — the terminals are the real thing | Task-runner kanban — dispatch agents, review results |
| Status | Actively developed, launching now | Sunsetting (announced 2026) |
| License / price | Apache-2.0, free, local | Apache-2.0, free |
| Agent CLIs | Claude Code first-class; shells, ssh, codex panes in the same tree | 10+ agent CLIs via adapters |
| Where agents run | Real PTYs — your shell, your dotfiles, the actual CLI TUI | Headless executions surfaced as task cards |
| Session persistence | Every pane auto-resumes its exact conversation; scrollback survives force-quit | Task history |
| Sees agents started elsewhere | Yes — machine-wide radar, attach on demand | No — only tasks it dispatched |
| Agents operate the app itself | Yes — the workspace is an MCP server; agents arrange panes, spawn agents, author live tool panes | No |
| Scope | Whole portfolio — every project in one sidebar | Per-repo task queues |
What Carries Over From Your VK Workflow
Many agents at once
Run 5–10 agents across projects in one window — as live panes you can watch and steer mid-run, not cards you check on.
Tasks and plans
Per-project tasks, plans and timelines live in the sidebar — and agents can create and complete them via MCP.
More than one vendor
Shells, ssh sessions and codex panes sit in the same tree as Claude panes. The radar watches whatever runs on the host.
Honest difference: if what you valued in Vibe Kanban was the fire-and-forget queue — dispatch twenty tasks, come back to a board of diffs — that's not this. HormesisWorkspace is for working with live sessions: watching, steering, resuming. If that's how you actually used VK, this will feel like an upgrade rather than a replacement.