Claude Task Master and vibe-kanban, fact by fact
| Fact | Claude Task Master | vibe-kanban |
|---|---|---|
| Starsvibe-kanban has 107 more stars. | 28,185Verified 8 Oct 2026 | 28,292Verified 8 Oct 2026 |
| Newest commitvibe-kanban committed 148 days more recently. | 23 Apr 2026168 days old when we read itVerified 8 Oct 2026 | 19 Sep 202619 days old when we read itVerified 8 Oct 2026 |
| Contributorsvibe-kanban has 8 more contributors (1.1×). | 56Verified 8 Oct 2026 | 64Verified 8 Oct 2026 |
| LicenseOther against Apache-2.0. | OtherVerified 8 Oct 2026 | Apache-2.0Verified 8 Oct 2026 |
| Latest stable releasevibe-kanban released 23 days more recently. | task-master-ai@0.43.1published 31 Mar 2026Verified 8 Oct 2026 | v0.1.44-20260424091429published 24 Apr 2026Verified 8 Oct 2026 |
| npm downloadsClaude Task Master has 23,487 more npm downloads a week (10×). | 26,072 a weektask-master-aiVerified 8 Oct 2026 | 2,585 a weekvibe-kanbanVerified 8 Oct 2026 |
| Repository | eyaltoledano/claude-task-masterJavaScriptVerified 8 Oct 2026 | BloopAI/vibe-kanbanRustVerified 8 Oct 2026 |
What we know about Claude Task Master
Task Master is not a coding agent: it is an MCP server that turns a written requirements document into a dependency-ordered task list and exposes 36 tools that your existing agent calls.
“**All Tools (36):** Complete set including project setup, task management, analysis, dependencies, tags, research, and more”
Split a written PRD into ordered tasks before any agent writes code, with `task-master parse-prd your-prd.txt`.
“# Parse a PRD and generate tasks · task-master parse-prd your-prd.txt”
Cut the tool-list cost in a long agent session: `TASK_MASTER_TOOLS="core"` exposes 7 tools instead of 36, which the project measures at roughly 70% fewer tokens.
“# Core mode example (~70% token reduction)”
Keep a separate research model from the one that writes: Task Master takes a main model, a research model and a fallback.
“You can define 3 types of models to be used: the main model, the research model, and the fallback model (in case either the main or research fail).”
The licence is not open source: MIT with Commons Clause bars selling Task Master, hosting it as a service, or building a competing product on it.
“❌ **Not Allowed**: · - Sell Task Master itself · - Offer Task Master as a hosted service · - Create competing products based on Task Master”
The core function times out on the input it is built for: parsing a large PRD disconnects the client after 301 seconds, open since 2025-12-10.
“bug: 301-Second Timeout on Large PRD Parsing (Client Disconnect)”
Nothing has shipped for months: the last release is `task-master-ai@0.43.1` from 2026-03-31 and the last commit is 2026-04-28, 112 days ago.
“task-master-ai@0.43.1”
A team that wants planning inside a maintained agent should use OpenCode's plan agent or GitHub Copilot CLI's plan mode instead of adding a stalled MCP server.
“In plan mode, Copilot analyzes your request, asks clarifying questions to understand scope and requirements, and builds a plan before writing any code.”
What Claude Task Master costs
Task Master charges nothing for itself; every AI command needs your own provider key, or a Claude Code or Codex CLI login.
“Taskmaster utilizes AI across several commands, and those require a separate API key.”
What we know about vibe-kanban
Vibe Kanban is an orchestrator, not an agent: each kanban issue gets its own branch, terminal and dev server, and the board drives 10 named coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and OpenCode.
“- **Run coding agents in workspaces** — each workspace gives an agent a branch, a terminal, and a dev server · - **Review diffs and leave inline comments** — send feedback directly to the agent without leaving the UI”
Compare what two agents did to the same issue and comment on the diff without leaving the board.
“- **Review diffs and leave inline comments** — send feedback directly to the agent without leaving the UI”
Keep using it offline after the shutdown: local workspaces still run, and the last version added a data export.
“The latest version of Vibe Kanban includes a data export feature. Remote services will remain available for 30 days, after which Vibe Kanban will transition to a fully local architecture.”
The company behind it is gone: bloop announced its shutdown on 2026-04-10 because it could not find a business model.
“Today we're shutting down bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban.”
The team half of the product was switched off 30 days after 2026-04-10: kanban issues, comments, projects and organisations were removed.
“Remote services that will be removed include: kanban issues, comments, projects and organisations.”
No maintainer is merging: the promised community roadmap was due within weeks of 2026-04-10 and the repository has taken no commit for 117 days.
“We're not out of ideas and believe there is a non-commercial future for the project. We'll release a roadmap for the community maintained edition over the next few weeks.”
A team that needs a supported board for agent work should not adopt Vibe Kanban; within this set only Warp offers a maintained surface for running several agents.
“[Warp](https://www.warp.dev) is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal. Use Warp's built-in coding agent, or bring your own CLI agent (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and others).”
What vibe-kanban costs
Paid subscriptions were cancelled and refunded when bloop shut down on 2026-04-10; the local product now costs nothing.
“Refunds have been issued for any invoices paid in the last 30 days, and subscriptions terminated.”
Questions people ask
- Are Claude Task Master and vibe-kanban still maintained?
- Task Master is slowing: no commit since 2026-04-28, 112 days, and no release since `task-master-ai@0.43.1` on 2026-03-31. Vibe Kanban is sunsetting: its own README says so, bloop shut down on 2026-04-10, remote services ended 30 days later, and the repository has taken no commit for 117 days. Both readings come from the default branch of each repository, on the date shown beside them.
- What do Claude Task Master and vibe-kanban cost?
- Claude Task Master: Task Master charges nothing for itself; every AI command needs your own provider key, or a Claude Code or Codex CLI login. vibe-kanban: Paid subscriptions were cancelled and refunded when bloop shut down on 2026-04-10; the local product now costs nothing. Every figure here is quoted from the vendor's own page and linked beside the claim.
- Is Claude Task Master or vibe-kanban open source?
- Claude Task Master's repository eyaltoledano/claude-task-master reports the Other licence. vibe-kanban's repository BloopAI/vibe-kanban reports the Apache-2.0 licence. We read the licence GitHub reports for the repository, which is not the same question as whether the hosted product is free.
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- Machine facts. Stars, contributors, the newest commit on the default branch, the licence GitHub reports and the latest stable release come from the GitHub API, and download counts from npm, PyPI, Homebrew and the VS Code Marketplace. Each value carries the day it was last confirmed, never the day this page was built. The line under each label is arithmetic on those two values.
- Judgments. Every claim about what a tool suits, what it is bad at and what it costs is quoted from a page we read, and that page is linked beside the claim. Where there is no link, we wrote no claim.
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