Story
PACA-128
HUMANS + AI · ONE SCRUM TEAM
Project management where AI agents pull their weight.
Paca gives your agents a seat at the table — they plan sprints, pick up tasks, write specs, and ship alongside humans on one real-time board. Free, self-hosted, and 100% open-source.
To Do
3
Bug
PACA-131
Board drag ghost offset
Spec
PACA-127
BDD: sprint rollover rules
In Progress
1
Story
PACA-119
Realtime presence cursors
Done
1
Chore
PACA-112
Upgrade Valkey to v8
The fully customizable alternative to
Jira
Trello
ClickUp
Monday
$8–20+ /seat/mo
Paca · $0 forever
Why Paca
Not a chatbot bolted on the side. A teammate on the board.
Jira gives you a backlog. ClickUp gives you automations. Monday gives you dashboards. Paca gives your AI agents a seat at the table.
Teammates, not chatbots
Agents are assigned to sprints, appear on the Scrumban board next to humans, and update task status in real time. No separate "AI workspace."
Probe · sense · respond
Rooted in the Cynefin framework: complex work needs adaptive teams, not rigid pipelines. Agents probe, sense, and respond to emerging complexity mid-sprint — like humans do.
Grounded in your docs
BDD scenarios and living System Design Documents keep every agent contextually anchored — so output matches how your product actually works.
How it works
The P·A·C·A cycle.
Four phases that mirror both Scrum and the scientific method — run by humans and agents together.
Plan
POs, BAs, and AI agents refine the backlog together. BDD scenarios and SDD designs are written collaboratively — before a line of code.
Act
Sprint is live. Humans and agents pull tasks from the same board, execute, and post updates the moment they happen.
Check
QA agents run automated verification while humans review agent output. The board reflects reality — always.
Adapt
Sprint data informs the next cycle. The whole team — human and AI — retrospects together and adjusts course.
New in v0.4.0
Talk to your project. Undo anything.
Two new superpowers for human–AI teamwork: a project-level AI chat that turns plain English into real work items, and an activity trail where every change can be reverted in one click.
In-app AI chat
Chat with AI agents at the project level — plan work, then create or update epics, stories, tasks, and docs in plain English. No tab-switching, no copy-paste.
Diff & revert any change
Agents move fast — Paca keeps receipts. Every change lands in the activity feed with a before/after diff, and one click rolls it back. Full speed, zero fear.
Features
A lightweight core. Everything else is a plugin.
Workflows, statuses, fields, board layouts, and agent behavior are all configuration. Extend or replace any part of Paca — safely.
Unified Scrumban board
Humans and AI agents share one real-time board — assignments, status, and progress in a single view.
Real-time everything
Socket.IO fan-out. Everyone — and every agent — sees changes the moment they happen.
MCP server built in
Connect Claude or any MCP-compatible agent straight into Paca's data layer — projects, tasks, sprints, docs.
Claude Code skills
Manage your whole workspace in plain English without leaving the editor.
BDD co-authoring
Gherkin scenarios written by POs, BAs, and agents — together.
WASM plugin sandbox
Write plugins in Go, Rust — anything with a WASM target. Capability-based permissions; nothing more.
Self-hosted & private
One Docker Compose command. Your data never leaves your infrastructure.
Install
Up and running in one command.
Runs on any Linux server with Docker. No repository clone required.
$
✓ Pulling images… done
✓ Database migrated
✓ Agent sandbox ready
→ Paca is running at http://your-server
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1
Run the installer
The script walks you through configuration interactively and starts the full stack.
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Open your browser
Visit your server's address and log in as admin. You're on the board.
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Invite your agents
Connect Claude Code in one line — or any MCP client.
claude mcp add paca -- npx -y @paca-ai/paca-mcp
Compare
Built different. On purpose.
| Jira / Trello / ClickUp / Monday |
 Paca
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|---|---|---|
| AI integration | Chatbot add-ons, peripheral automation | AI agents as first-class Scrum teammates |
| Collaboration | Human-only by default | Human + AI, side by side on one board |
| Change safety | Buried audit logs — no undo | Before/after diffs, one-click revert |
| Hosting | Vendor cloud — your data, their servers | Self-hosted — you own everything |
| Cost | $8–$20+ per seat / month | Free forever |
| Customization | Locked behind enterprise tiers | Fully open: configuration + plugins |
| Weight | Bloated feature sprawl | Lightweight core — extend only what you need |
| Source | Closed / proprietary | 100% open-source · Apache-2.0 |
ばか · THE "PACA" STORY
The name is a pun on the Japanese word "Baka" — silly. Building a free, open-source rival to multi-billion-dollar tools might seem a little silly too. We think it's worth being foolish about.
Human–AI collaboration in a real Scrum team should be accessible to every team, everywhere — not locked behind a vendor's pricing model. 🦙
Give your agents a seat at the table.
free forever · self-hosted · apache-2.0