Most agent work products end up as a pile of markdown: ISSUE-*.md , a TODO checklist, a commit message that

says "fixes the thing". It works until you need to answer three questions at once — what is in flight, who owns

it, and what actually happened to it — and then you are grepping.

ProjectBoard ( https://github.com/amgio38/Y20260923 , MIT) is my attempt at the smallest thing that answers

those: one SQLite file, one tree, one typed lifecycle, and three faces on top of it (CLI, MCP, read-only

dashboard). Single Go binary, no cgo, no database server, no Node build step.

The shape

Project └─ REQ a requirement ├─ ISSUE a unit of work ├─ BUG └─ REPORT notes, reviews, evidence

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Every node has a type and a status drawn from an explicit state machine

( todo → in_progress → review → done , plus blocked , hold , cancel , archived ). Two rules matter more than

the rest:

Illegal transitions are errors, not silent writes. todo → done is refused.…