Paca

Project management where AI agents plan sprints, pick up tasks, and ship alongside humans

Paca is a free, self-hosted, open-source project management platform built around a shared Scrum workflow where AI agents and human teammates work on the same board. It addresses the problem of AI tools living outside the team's actual process by placing agents directly into sprints alongside people, and by letting users chat with the project in plain English to plan work and create or update epics, stories, tasks, and docs. Every change is recorded in an activity feed with a before/after diff and can be rolled back with one click.

Core capabilities include a unified real-time Scrumban board, Socket.IO-based live updates, an in-app AI chat, a built-in MCP server for connecting Claude or other MCP-compatible agents, ACP agent support for tools like Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Cursor CLI, and a provider_cli agent type that drives those CLIs inside static environments. Additional modules cover BDD scenario co-authoring, an event-driven automation graph builder, a browser extension for turning page annotations into tasks, Jev AI for opt-in routing and task auto-fill/auto-assign, workspace branding, and a WASM plugin sandbox with capability-based permissions.

Paca is intended for teams that want AI agents participating directly in Scrum processes rather than as separate chat tools. It is packaged as a free, self-hosted product released under the Apache-2.0 license, installed via a single Docker Compose command on a Linux server, with no separate paid editions or seat-based pricing described.

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Key facts

Starts at: Contact sales
Free plan: Yes
Free trial: No
Open source: Yes

What it does

Scrumban board
Real time collaboration
Sprints
Task management
AI agent
Mcp integration
Chatbot
Browser extension
Cli
Docker
Self hosting
Open source
Automation
Workflow automation
Customization plugins wasm sandboxing and capability based permissions and configuration files for workflows statuses fields board layouts and agent behavior and extend or replace any part of paca safely and visual graph builder for trigger condition action flows with branching logic and nine built in trigger types and step by step run history for every run and workspace branding with logo favicon and accent color applied across light and dark mode variants and acp agent support for claude code codex gemini cli or any agent client protocol server via local bridge streaming over authenticated websocket and in app ai chat at project level to plan work and create or update epics stories tasks and docs in plain english and diff and revert any change with before after diff in activity feed and one click rollback and unified scrumban board where humans and ai agents share one real time board with assignments status and progress in a single view and real time everything via socket io fan out and mcp server built in to connect claude or any mcp compatible agent into paca data layer for projects tasks sprints docs and claude code skills to manage workspace in plain english without leaving editor and bdd co authoring of gherkin scenarios by pos bas and agents together and wasm plugin sandbox to write plugins in go rust or anything with wasm target with capability based permissions and self hosted and private with one docker compose command and data never leaves infrastructure and install in one command on any linux server with docker and no repository clone required and ai integration with chatbot add ons and peripheral automation and collaboration with human and ai side by side on one board and change safety with before after diffs and one click revert and hosting self hosted so you own everything and cost free forever and customization fully open with configuration and plugins and weight lightweight core extend only what you need and source 100 percent open source apache 2 0 and jev ai decision engine for auto routing task auto fill task auto assign and jev condition branching automations and browser extension to annotate any element of a running environments preview and turn a comment into a real task in one click and provider cli agent type running claude code codex gemini cli or cursor cli inside its own static environments with login once from environment terminal and mcp servers synced into config and static environments as named long lived container outliving any single conversation with files and background processes surviving across chats and reach through in browser terminal real ssh with per environment keys or port forward to preview a live dev server and event driven automation engine with visual n8n style graph builder and workspace branding with logo favicon and accent color and acp agent support for claude code codex gemini cli or any agent client protocol server and in app ai chat at project level and diff and revert any change with before after diff and one click rollback and unified scrumban board and real time everything via socket io fan out and mcp server built in and claude code skills and bdd co authoring and wasm plugin sandbox and self hosted and private and install in one command and ai integration and collaboration and change safety and hosting and cost and customization and weight and source

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