Kanban and tasks
The kanban board turns your plan into a simple list of things to build. It has three columns, and it stays in step with your coding agent, so you always know what is done and what is next.
The board
To Do
2Grant access to the app when a checkout completes.
In Progress
1Done
2Every task moves left to right through three columns:
- To Do. Planned, but not started yet.
- In Progress. Being built right now. This is where you drop the card you want next.
- Done. Built and ready for you to check.
What a card shows
Each card is one small, self-contained job. Reading the cards on the board above, top to bottom, a card shows:
- A tag. Feature or Task, so you can tell a whole feature from a smaller job at a glance.
- A priority pill. Low, medium, high or urgent, coloured so the important work stands out.
- A title, and a short description when the job needs one.
- A feature chip and a date, so you know which part of the app the card belongs to and when it was added.
Adding a task
Most tasks come from your plan. When you generate PRDs for a feature, CodeSpring turns that plan into labelled tasks, numbered so you can build in a sensible order. To see where those come from, read Build from scratch.
You can also add a card yourself. Give it a title and a short description of what it should do, and it lands in To Do, ready for you or your agent to pick up.
Add New Card
Opening a task
Click a card to open it. The task dialog is where you edit the details: a title and description on the left, and its properties, status, priority, estimate and the feature it belongs to, on the right.
Edit Task
Make changes to your task here.
Properties
The field that matters most is Feature. Every task is linked to a feature on your map, and that link is what makes the task buildable: it carries the feature's context and its PRDs along with the task. So when your agent picks a card up, it is not working from a one-line title, it has the full plan for the feature that card belongs to.
Syncing with your agent
The board and your agent stay in step. When you drag a card to In Progress, your agent picks it up. When your agent finishes, it moves the card to Done. You no longer have to re-explain what you are working on, because the board already shows it.
Because tasks are numbered, you can ask your agent to work through a run of them at once, for example build the next five. It ticks each card off as it goes, so you can step away and come back to real progress.