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FronyBoard

by Cafelatte1version 0.43.0i★ –iRuns on your computer
Registry nameio.github.Cafelatte1/fronyboard

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Project tracker for AI agents: roadmap, periods, tasks and a validation gate, in one SQLite file

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What you can do with it

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  • Connection: Runs on your computer
  • Transport: stdio
  • Category: Databases & datasets

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

  • Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
  • Runs on your computer with your user’s permissions (files, network, apps).
  • You fill in yourself: AIRA_DATA_DIR

You need

  • PyPIPython’s uv installed (for the uvx command)

Which app do you use?

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fronyboard": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "fronyboard"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AIRA_DATA_DIR": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add fronyboard --env AIRA_DATA_DIR=your-value -- uvx fronyboard

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fronyboard": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "fronyboard"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AIRA_DATA_DIR": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "fronyboard": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "fronyboard"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AIRA_DATA_DIR": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This one runs on your computer, and ChatGPT can only connect to servers on the internet. Pick another app.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

  • AIRA_DATA_DIR env
    Data root; default is Frony/FronyBoard/data under LOCALAPPDATA (or ~/.Frony/FronyBoard/data)

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 9, 2026

  • ✓ Pass

    Maker matches the repo

    The registry name was verified with the GitHub account Cafelatte1, which owns the repo

  • … Not checked yet

    Still maintained

    We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

  • … Not checked yet

    Has a licence

    We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

  • – Not applicable

    Endpoint responds

    This one runs on your computer; there is no internet endpoint

  • – Not applicable

    Sign-in with OAuth

    Runs on your computer and uses local settings instead

  • … Not checked yet

    No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

    Runs on your computer; we can only read tool lists from internet endpoints

Compared with others in Databases & datasetsi

  • More stars than 0% of the other 1151 servers in this category
  • Published to the registry more recently than 77% of the other 1151 servers in this category
  • Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 1151 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is FronyBoard safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.43.0) reached the registry 10 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Python (uv) on your computer.

What can I use instead?

In the same category: Supabase, MongoDB MCP Server, Elasticsearch MCP Server

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README from the maker

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FronyBoard

An MCP server that gives AI agents (Claude Code and friends) a first-class project tracker.

Where Jira is an issue tracker for humans behind a web UI, FronyBoard replaces each part with something an agent can use natively:

JiraFronyBoard
DatabaseOne SQLite file in a dedicated data directory
RecordsJSON documents (roadmap, period) + Markdown
APIMCP tools
Workflow engineSchema + rule validation, run as a gate before every write
State transitionAn MCP tool call (transition_task)

The schema and operating rules were extracted from a real product's management system (31 tasks shipped through it), then generalized.

Install

Requires uv. One line registers FronyBoard in Claude Code; uvx fetches the package from PyPI on first use and caches it:

claude mcp add FronyBoard -- uvx fronyboard

Any MCP client that can launch a stdio command works the same way — the command is uvx fronyboard. It is also listed in the MCP Registry as io.github.Cafelatte1/fronyboard. From a clone, point at the checkout instead (this needs git):

git clone https://github.com/Cafelatte1/fronyboard

claude mcp add FronyBoard -- uv run --directory \backend fronyboard

This is the local (stdio) mode: the client starts the server as a child process and talks to it over a pipe. No HTTP, no network, no credentials — web.py and fauth.py are never called. Data is written to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Frony\FronyBoard\data (~/.Frony/FronyBoard/data where LOCALAPPDATA is unset); set AIRA_DATA_DIR to relocate it. Logs (JSON Lines, one line per MCP tool call plus server events) go to the sibling logs folder — FRONYBOARD_LOG_DIR overrides.

To share one FronyBoard between several machines, or to use it from the Claude and ChatGPT apps, run it as an HTTP server instead — see docs/self-hosting.md.

Project setup

Connecting the MCP server gives every session the tools and the general workflow (delivered as server instructions). What it cannot know is which FronyBoard project a codebase belongs to — declare that in the codebase itself by adding this section to its CLAUDE.md (create the file if the project has none):

## FronyBoard

This project is tracked by FronyBoard (project key: DLY). Manage tasks through the FronyBoard MCP tools, following the FronyBoard server instructions.

Replace DLY with the project's key (register one first with create_project). The section is also the opt-in signal: a codebase without it is treated as not FronyBoard-managed.

Model

fronyboard.db

├── projects one row per project (key e.g. DLY): the roadmap record — │ yearly overview (goal / now / target / checklist) + quarterly milestones └── periods one row per opened period (e.g. 2026Q3): tasks ({KEY}-001, ...)

  • result (retrospective, written when the period closes)

A project is two kinds of records — the roadmap, and one record per period. Both are JSON documents; the schema and the rules that guard it are in backend/src/fronyboard/validation.py.

  • Task ids are a project-global sequence (DLY-042) — they keep counting across periods and are never reused. They are the only link between FronyBoard and a codebase: use them in branch names (feat/DLY-042/short-desc) and record the branch on the task.
  • A task is a title (v0.33.0, AIR-086) plus status, tags, depends_on, branch and two one-line notes of at most 300 characters each. Agents read titles and status; the 25-line body nobody read, and the month/week slots that only existed to schedule it, are gone. Time is meta.completed_at.
  • The two notes answer different questions at different moments (v0.38.0, AIR-090). content is written at create time and says why the task exists — the pressure behind it, or the scope deliberately left out. The approach chosen is not part of it (AIR-092): agents wrote it here and again in the commit, so it lives in the commit only. check is required by transition_task(status="done") and says what proves it done — the command and its output, or an observable a reader can go and see. One free note asked before the work can only restate the plan: in a 12-session benchmark every task an agent wrote paraphrased its own title, because the note was fixed at create time and update_task was never called. Reopening a task drops its check; nothing is proven any more.
  • Reference chain: period → roadmap milestone (the quarter). That is the only one, and the milestone is optional (v0.40.0, AIR-095): a period without one is valid, and its tasks are checked like any other's.
  • Statuses — milestones: planned | active | done; tasks: todo | in_progress | done | blocked | cancelled.
  • `cancelled` is the soft delete — there is no hard delete. Cancelling requires a reason, keeps the record (and its id) forever, and hides the task from queries by default (list_tasks takes include_cancelled). blocked = may resume, cancelled = will not happen; transitioning a cancelled task restores it.
  • Carry-over: a task that outlives its period is not moved — recreate it in the next period under a new id and note the mapping in the closing retrospective.
  • `get_status` is the whole resume — the overview, each period's open tasks, and recent_done: the ten most recently finished tasks with their content, their check and when they completed. What is already built is what a cold session needs most, and nobody makes a second call to find it (AIR-090). It is still a record of claims: the board says what an agent reported, the code is the evidence.
  • `depends_on` on a task lists the earlier tasks it builds on (other projects allowed). It points backwards only — there is no forward index, because storing one direction and deriving the other read as inverted often enough to be worth dropping (v0.36.0, AIR-089). The field was follows until v0.37.0; the boot migration renames it. It is a pointer, not a lock: list_tasks and get_status flag the entries not yet done as waiting_on, and nothing is ever blocked.
  • Timestamps (meta.created_at / updated_at / started_at / completed_at) are stamped by the server in naive UTC — started_at on the first in_progress transition, completed_at on done (and removed again if the task leaves done). Agents never write them.
  • The `result` field closes a period — the rest of the file holds only current state, so the "why it turned out this way" lives there: judgment and reasons, not counts. Its presence is what marks a period closed.

Tools

AreaTools
Projectscreate_project, update_project, list_projects, get_roadmap, get_status, validate
Roadmapset_overview, set_check, upsert_milestone
Periodsopen_period, close_period, get_retrospective
Planningcreate_task, update_task, transition_task
Querieslist_tasks, get_task, search_tasks, recent_activity
Guidehelp — the full usage guide as Markdown; the server instructions point to it

update_task and transition_task derive the project from the task id prefix (DLY-042 → DLY), so their key parameter is optional. Re-calling close_period on a closed period rewrites its retrospective.

Typical flow:

create_project

→ create_task (opens the current quarter) → transition_task in_progress (with branch) → ... → transition_task done → close_period (retrospective)

Planning is optional, not a prerequisite. create_task opens the current quarter by itself (in FRONYBOARD_TZ, else the server's zone); open_period opens any other quarter, with or without a milestone. set_overview and upsert_milestone add the year's and the quarter's goals whenever there are some. A milestone added to an open quarter starts active; closing the quarter marks it done.

Every mutation is validated before anything is written; invalid changes are rejected with the full error list. close_period refuses while tasks are still todo or in_progress. Writes are serialized per project, so concurrent clients cannot collide on ids or lose updates.

Self-hosting

The same package also runs as an always-on HTTP server (fronyboard serve): MCP over streamable HTTP for every machine on your network, a read-only web dashboard for humans, API keys per device, and OAuth for the hosted Claude / ChatGPT apps. Authentication is delegated to FronyAuth, a separate service. None of it is needed for the stdio install above. To see the dashboard on your own machine without any of that, run fronyboard serve --local (loopback only, no login) and open http://127.0.0.1:8642. docs/self-hosting.md covers the setup; docs/operations.md is the day-2 runbook.

Development

uv run --directory backend pytest      # backend

cd frontend; npm test # dashboard

The repo is a monorepo. backend/src/fronyboard/ — store.py (SQLite, data root), validation.py (schema gate), service.py (operations), auth.py (bearer middleware) + fauth.py (FronyAuth client), log.py, web.py (JSON API + static serving), server.py (MCP tool surface + CLI). frontend/ — the dashboard (React + Vite), built to static files that the backend serves; its build output frontend/dist is committed so a server needs no Node toolchain.

The three docs under docs/ cover what the code cannot tell you — running this on your own machines:

  • docs/self-hosting.md — running FronyBoard as a shared server: clients, dashboard, hosted apps, deploy
  • docs/operations.md — home server runbook
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