Reviewing and shipping

Inspect an agent’s diff, leave inline comments, and commit or open a PR when the work looks good.

When an agent finishes, its card moves to the review column. You can inspect every changed file, leave feedback the agent acts on immediately, and ship the result in one click.

Opening the review

Click any card in the review column to open the detail view. You see the agent’s terminal or chat interface alongside a full diff of the task’s worktree.

Diff viewer

The diff viewer shows all files the agent changed. Two modes let you focus on different slices of the work.

Mode	What it shows
Working copy	All changes in the worktree relative to the base branch.
Last turn	Only the changes made since you last sent a message to the agent.

Click on any diff line to leave an inline comment. Comments are sent back to the agent as a new message, and the agent continues working to address them. You can iterate as many times as you need before shipping.

Shipping options

When the work looks good, choose how to land it.

Commit

Kanban sends the agent a prompt to create a commit on the base branch. The agent handles any merge conflicts intelligently before committing.

Open PR

Kanban sends the agent a prompt to push a new branch and open a pull request. The agent resolves merge conflicts as part of the process.

Auto-review

You can skip the manual review step entirely by enabling auto-review on a task. Kanban triggers the chosen shipping action as soon as the agent finishes, without waiting for you to click anything.

Mode	What happens automatically
commit	The agent commits its changes to the base branch.
pr	The agent pushes a branch and opens a pull request.
move_to_trash	The card moves to trash without committing. Useful for exploratory tasks.

You configure auto-review when creating or editing a task. See Creating tasks for details.

Script shortcuts

To test and debug changes without leaving Kanban, create a script shortcut in Settings (for example, npm run dev). A play button appears in the navbar so you can run the command in one click instead of switching to a terminal.

Trashing a task

Move a card to trash to clean up its worktree. Kanban keeps the task’s resume ID, so you can always bring the task back and continue from where the agent left off.

Trashing a task that is a prerequisite for other tasks triggers those dependent tasks to start automatically. See Task dependencies for details.