Built a Kanban UI + workflow engine on top of the conductor pattern — feedback welcome

[meller]

Hey!

I've been building LaneConductor — a workflow engine and Kanban dashboard that supports and extends the conductor
file/folder format.

It adds:

• Real-time Kanban board (local Postgres + Vite UI)
• Multi-agent support (currently Gemini and Claude)
• A universal lc CLI for managing tracks and workers
• Automated Plan → Implement → Review → Quality Gate pipeline

Currently using it locally but have a design for remote execution with a distributed architecture.

Running on Linux/Ubuntu — should work on WSL as well, though not tested.

Compatible with the existing conductor folder structure (conductor/tracks/NNN-slug/) so it works alongside the
standard Gemini CLI conductor pattern.

Would love feedback from the community — especially on file format compatibility and whether this aligns with
the direction you're taking the conductor pattern.

It's open source and I'd love to keep it aligned with the conductor path.

https://github.com/meller/laneconductor
https://laneconductor.com

[Nyrok]

The Plan → Implement → Review → Quality Gate pipeline is solid. One thing that makes these stages more reliable is giving each one a different instruction shape, not just a different task description.

Plan stage wants a role that reasons about architecture, with constraints that prevent premature implementation choices. Implement stage wants a constrained coder role with a specific output_format so Review can parse it mechanically. Review stage needs a different role entirely, one that critiques rather than generates. Free-text prompts per stage tend to blur these distinctions over time.

I've been building flompt for exactly this, a visual prompt builder that decomposes prompts into 12 semantic blocks (role, constraints, output_format, chain_of_thought, etc.) and compiles to Claude-optimized XML. Pipeline stages with typed block templates produce more predictable handoffs than prose. Open-source: github.com/Nyrok/flompt

[meller]

I see, its nice though different concept. The one I have built uses the same pattern of conductor and gives you a UI for all these tracks so you see what is where and you can "talk" about them or build dynamic wokflows. also no extensions needed, all running based on skill/extensions of llms.