poketo-kanban

Poketo Kanban — Board & Task Management

Manage Poketo Work kanban boards directly from any Claude session. All operations go through the poketo CLI gateway.

Prerequisites

• poketo CLI installed and on PATH
• Authenticated: poketo auth login or POKETO_API_KEY env var set

Commands

Run commands via:

poketo kanban <command> [options]

Read Operations

List all boards:

poketo kanban boards

View a board (lists + cards):

poketo kanban board <board-id>

Search cards across all boards:

poketo kanban search --query "search term"

Card Operations

Create a card:

poketo kanban create-card --board <board-id> --list <list-id> --name "Card title" [--description "Details"]

Update a card:

poketo kanban update-card --id <card-id> [--name "New name"] [--description "New desc"]

Mark a card done:

poketo kanban done --id <card-id>

Move a card to another list:

poketo kanban move-card --id <card-id> --list <target-list-id>

Board & List Operations

Create a new board (with standard lists: Backlog, Todo, In Progress, Done, Punt):

poketo kanban create-board --name "Board Name" --template standard

Create a bare board (no lists):

poketo kanban create-board --name "Board Name"

Add a list to a board:

poketo kanban create-list --board <board-id> --name "List Name"

Output Format

All commands output JSON. Parse the output and present results in a human-readable format:

• For boards: show a table of board names and IDs
• For board <id>: show each list as a column header, with cards as bullet points underneath (include done status, due dates, starred)
• For mutations: confirm the action with the created/updated entity details

Error Handling

If the output contains { "error": "..." }, report the error message to the user. Common errors:

• "Not authenticated" → tell user to run poketo auth login
• "Could not reach the gateway" → tell user to check that the gateway is running and reachable
• "Board not found" → verify the board ID

Workflow Tips

When the user asks to "track tasks" or "manage my board":

1. First run boards to show available boards
2. Then poketo kanban board <id> to show the selected board's state
3. Create/update/move cards as requested
4. After mutations, re-fetch the board to show updated state

Archive (--archive)

When $ARGUMENTS contains --archive (or starts with archive), archive old Done and Punt cards. Use --days <N> to override the 30-day default threshold.

Kanban Setup

Read and follow the Kanban Setup protocol in ~/.claude/skills/poketo-kanban/KANBAN-SETUP.md (Board Resolution and Board Validation — skip Board Overview). If any setup step fails, report the error and stop — this operation requires a working kanban connection.

Process

1. Parse arguments: Extract --days <N> from $ARGUMENTS. Default to 30.
2. Fetch board state: Run poketo kanban board <id> to get all lists and cards.
3. Find archivable cards: Cards in Done or Punt lists where age (from updatedAt or createdAt) exceeds the threshold. If none qualify, report and stop.
4. Display candidates: Show each card with list name, last update date, and age.
5. Confirm with user: Ask "Archive these N cards? (y/n)". If declined, stop.
6. Archive cards: Run archive-card --id <card-id> for each. Continue on individual failures.
7. Report: "Archived N cards (X from Done, Y from Punt)."

Constraints

• Never archive without explicit user confirmation.
• Process Done cards first, then Punt — oldest first within each list.
• Only archive from Done and Punt lists.
• The archive-card command handles auto-creating the Archive list.

Alignment Page

When this skill produces durable deliverables (research, specs, plans, reports, prototypes, or any document output), build a full-depth HTML alignment page at alignment/poketo-kanban-{topic}.html. Use a normalized topic slug derived from the app, feature, research subject, report subject, or output filename.

Full content requirement. The alignment page must contain the complete content of every proposed markdown deliverable -- every section, every finding, every detail, every list item. It is a thorough interactive review document, not a summary. Render the full deliverable content in clean, readable HTML with appropriate hierarchy, styling, and navigation. If the skill writes multiple scoped deliverables in one run, build one alignment page that contains all deliverables with anchor-linked navigation. Durable tracker artifacts, such as research/assumption-tracker.md, remain canonical markdown outputs but must also be fully rendered into the alignment page before approval.

Dark-mode styling. Use a dark color scheme by default. Base CSS variables: --bg: #0d1117; --surface: #161b22; --border: #30363d; --text: #c9d1d9; --text-muted: #8b949e; --accent: #58a6ff; --green: #3fb950; --red: #f85149; --orange: #d29922; --purple: #bc8cff;. Apply background: var(--bg); color: var(--text); on body. Use --surface for cards, nav, and table headers. Use --border for all borders. Use --purple for question blocks and gate headings. Use --accent for links and section headings. Keep headings color: #fff or var(--accent) for hierarchy. Question block backgrounds should use #1c2333.

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Gate YAML contract. At the bottom of the page, include a "Compile Answers" button that aggregates answers from all inline gate questions throughout the page, including free-text notes. The button remains disabled until every required question has a selection, shows a count of remaining unanswered questions, and scrolls to the first unanswered question if clicked early. When every question is answered, generate a structured YAML block with one item per gate answer using this stable shape: section, gate_type, status (answered, other, or needs-clarification), answer, optional notes, and optional target_artifact or target_path when the gate controls file output. After successful compilation, automatically attempt to copy the YAML to the clipboard with the Clipboard API, display copy status, and display the YAML in a read-only textarea with an explicit "Copy YAML" button. The copy button must retry clipboard copy when supported and fall back to selecting the textarea contents when clipboard access is unavailable or blocked.

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Archiving. Before replacing an existing alignment page, archive it to docs/history/archive/YYYY-MM-DD/HHMMSS/alignment/poketo-kanban-{topic}.html.

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Default Shipping Contract

• Default next-step routing: when reporting completion, include either Recommended next skill: <command> or the two-line pair **Next work:** <specific task or "none"> and **Recommended next command:** <one command or route> so the next operator has a concrete handoff.
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