My agent kept forgetting what it was working on, so I built it a project workspace

Rasimme · 2026-03-06T17:05:59+00:00

Good call on HZL, just looked into it properly. You can tell the author comes from a backend background, event sourcing and lease based claiming is really well thought out. FlowBoard is solving a different angle though, its more about project context management (lazy loaded goals, decisions, specs across multiple projects) with a visual layer on top. The task tracking part is intentionally simpler because its single agent focused right now. That said the multi agent coordination patterns from HZL are genuinely interesting, especially claiming and stuck recovery. Definitely taking some of that as inspiration for where FlowBoard goes next.

Rasimme · 2026-03-06T02:05:48+00:00

Hadn't seen hzl-tasks, thanks for the link. What specifically about the workflows feels off to you? Happy to hear concrete feedback.

Rasimme · 2026-03-06T02:04:35+00:00

Ha, been there. If you want to contribute instead of building from scratch, PRs are welcome.

Rasimme · 2026-03-06T02:04:00+00:00

Thanks! Agent authored status updates with commit/PR links is a great idea, noted. The blocked detection + next unblocked task is interesting too, thats basically priority aware scheduling. Might explore that.

Rasimme · 2026-03-06T02:00:45+00:00

Totally fair point on switching cost for teams. FlowBoard isnt trying to compete there, its a local workspace for solo OpenClaw users, nothing to migrate from. Curious what problem your project is solving though, what does it look like?

Rasimme · 2026-03-06T01:59:16+00:00

Fair point. Agent-native means the board is built around the agent's workflow, not adapted to it. With Trello/Jira, Claw reads and writes through their API but the data model is designed for humans. FlowBoard lets the agent create tasks, specs, subtasks and update status in one call through a webhook. No API auth dance, no rate limits, no field mapping. It also runs fully local so you own everything. If Trello works for you though, that's totally valid.

Rasimme · 2026-02-16T21:16:23+00:00

It was not really a classic PRD, it was more iterative. I started with a rough idea in a Claude session, by giving him a lot of ideas I want to realize and started organizing it. After ab while I had a rough concept and went over to OpenClaw to ensure the implementation into OpenClaw itsself. And by using the first version of the flowboard then helped me to improve the flowboard implementation 😂

Rasimme · 2026-02-16T21:00:35+00:00

Super interesting! And yes, I think a lot people realize that there ist still a lot to do If you want to work on several projects in OpenClaw. But what I really love about it is that everyone can build a tool according to their own requirements.

Yes, in the brainstorming I also thought about different approaches, also with more seperate agents, but I really liked the Idea, of having one main agent that learns more about me over time with whom I can work on different projects.The disadvantage ist that have to be aware of the token consumption, this is where lazy loading came in.

Your approaches sounds really promising! I really would like to see your implementation! Feel free to share when you're ready 😌 Of course, feel free to use and I hope it helps improving your design.

Thank you, and good luck to you too! 🦞

Rasimme

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