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Daily Loop

Use Brain for durable context, Kanban for live work, and MCP when agents need tool access.

Last reviewed: 2026-07-17. Product status: alpha.

THE SPLIT

BRAIN

Use Brain for decisions, designs, rationale, preferences, references, and other long-lived context.

KANBAN

Use Kanban for live work state. One card should describe one unit of work and move as reality changes.

1 Start from the board.

kanban list

2 Put durable reasoning in Brain.

brain concept new local-search \
  --title "Local search" \
  --body "Embeddings stay on this machine."

brain ask "what did we decide about search?"

3 Track work on cards.

kanban add ship-login --title "Ship login flow" --tags auth
kanban move ship-login doing

Give agents MCP access to the app CLIs when they need to read or write durable state.

brain mcp
kanban mcp

Some clients can install the MCP wiring directly from the app CLI, for example brain mcp install.

Install

Homebrew install, what ships, data directory, socket, and version checks.

Operate

Health checks, status, socket expectations, and the safe restart boundary.