The TUI gets a major upgrade: create tasks without leaving the board, view task details with full markdown rendering, and watch changes update live. This release focuses on making the TUI a complete task management experience.
New: Task creation wizard
Create tasks directly from the TUI with a 4-step wizard (title, body, priority, tags). Press c on any column to start. Controls are consistent across all steps: Tab advances, Enter creates, Shift+Tab goes back, Esc cancels.
# Open the TUI and press 'c' to create a task in the current column
kanban-md tuiNew: Markdown rendering in detail view
Task detail view now renders markdown with syntax highlighting, bullet points, and formatting. Press Enter on any task to see it beautifully rendered.
New: Live-reload detail view
The detail view auto-refreshes when the underlying task file changes on disk. Edit a task in your editor and see changes reflected in the TUI instantly.
New: agent-name command
Generate unique agent names for claim operations. Useful for multi-agent workflows where each agent needs a stable identity.
kanban-md agent-name
# → frost-mapleNew: --title and --description aliases
The create command now accepts --title and --description as aliases for positional arguments, making it easier to script.
kanban-md create --title "Fix login bug" --description "Users can't log in with SSO"Changed: Arrow keys shown in TUI
The TUI status bar and help now show arrow key symbols (↑/↓/←/→) instead of hjkl, making it more intuitive for users unfamiliar with vim-style navigation. Both arrow keys and hjkl still work.
Changed: Default title_lines increased to 2
Task cards in the TUI now show 2 lines of the title by default (was 1), making longer titles readable without truncation.
Changed: Move keys are now n/p
Move-next and move-prev now use lowercase n/p instead of the previous bindings.
Fixed: TUI scroll and display issues
- Scroll now follows the selected task when it moves off-screen
- Error messages no longer hide column headers
- Detail view scroll is properly clamped at content bounds
- No more orphan lines from hyphen wrapping
- Board view height clamped to prevent column headers from disappearing
- Blank line added between content and help hint in detail view
Upgrading
No action needed — the config auto-migrates to v9.
Full diff: v0.29.2...v0.30.0