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kadence
Git-native task journal your team and AI agents both read
Tasks, their whole history and the time they took live in your git repo as an append-only journal: one JSON file per event, never edited, never deleted. Everyone else keeps state — a task file, a row, a spec. State drifts, conflicts on merge and forgets. Events cannot: board and velocity are folded from the journal on read. Your team reads it in the terminal, your AI agents read the same thing as --json. No server, no account, no network. MIT.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I work with coding agents every day, and the expensive part was never the code -
it was re-explaining. Every new session, my agent re-read the same files and
proposed the approach we had rejected last week. My teammate's agent knew none of
it either: that memory is per user, per machine.
So kadence keeps the missing layer in the repository itself - an append-only
journal, one JSON file per event, committed next to the code. Nothing is edited
or deleted, so `kadence task show KAD-1` can answer "how did we get here", and
`--json` hands an agent the same answer in about a kilobyte whether the project
holds ten tasks or a thousand.
Two things I would rather say up front than have you find out:
• Because it is append-only, two people editing one task on two branches is not a
merge conflict. We measured 8,396 merge commits across 130 public repositories
using file-based trackers before building on that claim - 15% of them hit
conflicts in task files, and 89% are the exact type a journal removes.
• What we have NOT proved is that teams lose enough context between sessions to
want a journal for it. That bet rests on reasoning, not on users - the interviews
are not run yet. If it turns out agents do fine with `git log`, the thesis falls.
MIT, free, zero network requests. Leaving costs `rm -rf .kadence` - your events
are plain JSON, readable without us.
What I would most like from you: if you work with agents in a team, tell me what
your last session had to relearn. That is the thing I am trying to kill.
npm install -g kadence && kadence init
Really like the idea. It feels genuinely useful for keeping context between sessions without adding extra friction. Simple concept, but it solves a real problem👍 Looking forward to seeing how this evolves!
About kadence on Product Hunt
“Git-native task journal your team and AI agents both read”
kadence was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #37 on the daily leaderboard. Tasks, their whole history and the time they took live in your git repo as an append-only journal: one JSON file per event, never edited, never deleted. Everyone else keeps state — a task file, a row, a spec. State drifts, conflicts on merge and forgets. Events cannot: board and velocity are folded from the journal on read. Your team reads it in the terminal, your AI agents read the same thing as --json. No server, no account, no network. MIT.
kadence was featured in Task Management (84.3k followers), Developer Tools (519.8k followers), Artificial Intelligence (479.1k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 247.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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