kanman documentation
kanman is the AI teammate your engineering team talks to. Tell it what you need in the app, in Slack or in Microsoft Teams: it drafts the stories, ships the code through Claude Code or Codex under your rules, proves each change against its acceptance criteria and tells you how it went. Start here.
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Overview
What kanman does, who it is for, how you talk to it, and how a story flows from a conversation to a verified pull request.
Getting started
Run the demo sandbox, set up your first team and connect GitHub, Jira or GitLab.
Concepts
Teams, stories, runs, the outcome gate, decisions, policies, budgets, conventions and maintenance mode.
Guides
Step-by-step help for writing requirements, adding a manifest, tuning presets, Slack, the runner and MCP.
Reference
Manifests, policy settings, MCP tools, REST API, webhook events, audit export, errors and rate limits.
Security and data
Where your data lives, how runs are sandboxed, what model providers see, retention and the DPA.
Account and workspace
Workspace, members and roles, plans and billing, profile, preferences and accessibility.
Start with these pages
.kanman/acceptance.json
Every key of the acceptance manifest: how kanman starts your app, waits for it, and runs the acceptance spec of one story.
Quickstart: the demo sandbox
Watch kanman take one requirement to a verified pull request on a small sample repository, in about 15 minutes.
What kanman does
kanman is the AI teammate your engineering team talks to. It works under your rules, proves every change before it asks for review and tells you how it went.
Add an acceptance manifest to your repo
Teach kanman how to start your app in a fresh environment and run acceptance specs, so every story ends with real proof.
Set up a team
The team setup, step by step: pick your tracker, name the project and repositories, map columns, choose a preset and an executor, personalize the team and run a dry run.
The outcome gate and evidence
kanman never takes the executor's word for it. The outcome gate proves each story against its acceptance spec, and the evidence pack shows the proof.
See a verified pull request in 15 minutes
The demo sandbox walks you through one complete story, from requirement to evidence pack.
Start the quickstart