I built a live Kanban control plane for Gemini CLI conductor — shared context, real-time board, cross-agent handoff

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Title: I built a live Kanban control plane for Gemini CLI conductor — shared context, real-time board, cross-agent handoff

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I was running Gemini CLI with the conductor format for task tracking, and Claude Code with superpowers skills for implementation — also inspired by OpenClaw's approach. All great tools, but completely siloed. No shared context between the agents, no visibility into what each was doing, and if one LLM exhausted mid-task there was no clean handoff to the other.

I wanted one thing: a unified view where both agents share the same context, and I can see what's happening without reading terminal output.

LaneConductor is that layer — a live Kanban board (localhost:8090) that updates in real-time as your agents work, backed by a shared Markdown context that both Claude and Gemini read and write.

It works natively with the Gemini CLI conductor format — if you're already using conductor/tracks/ folders, LaneConductor picks them up automatically. No migration, no config changes.

This is built on context-driven development: all state lives in Markdown files (plan.md, spec.md, index.md) rather than in any LLM's context window. That means if Claude exhausts mid-task, Gemini opens the same files and continues from exactly the same point — no lost work, no restarting from scratch. The files are the shared context and the checkpoint.

Four ways to use it:

• CLI — npx laneconductor or lc commands to create tracks, check status, move lanes
• Worker mode — background daemon picks up queued tracks and runs them autonomously (Wigham-style auto-implement)
• Claude skill — invoke /laneconductor plan, /laneconductor implement, /laneconductor review directly inside Claude Code
• Gemini — instruct Gemini CLI to use the skill the same way: plan a track, implement it, review it — the conductor format is native

What it does:

• Live Kanban dashboard synced to your conductor/tracks/ files every 2s
• Shared context layer — Claude and Gemini read/write the same Markdown files
• Cross-agent handoff when one LLM exhausts — no lost work
• Multi-project — all your repos in one board
• 100% local: Postgres + Vite, no cloud, no auth, no cost

3-command install:

git clone https://github.com/meller/laneconductor ~/Code/laneconductor
cd your-project && lc setup
lc start && lc ui

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

Happy to answer questions — running this daily across 3 repos with Claude and Gemini simultaneously.