FeatureBoard — the board Claude actually runs

A local, markdown-backed project board that lives inside Claude — packaged as a Claude Desktop / Cowork extension (.mcpb). Point it at a folder, and Claude plans, logs, prioritizes, and works tickets in plain language — then renders the whole thing as a live, interactive board artifact with a full analytics dashboard. No SaaS, no login, no lock-in. Your boards are plain featurelist.md / buglist.md files you own forever.

It started as a hosted web app (OpenClaw). We rebuilt it as an MCP server by taking the original app's file list and porting it, tool by tool, while learning MCP from scratch — and it came together fast. What you get is ~216 tools spanning the entire product surface: board and churn loop, analytics, testing, a media studio, CRM, leads, contracts, mail and marketing, a website builder with git deploys, and per-ticket commits. The board is the front door; everything the original app did is one sentence away in chat.

Why it's good

• It's the board Claude drives, not a database you poke. Ask "what's on my plate," "break FBF-300 into subtasks," or "ship the next ticket" — Claude pulls work, sets status, writes the code, logs the diff, and commits. The board stays honest because the agent keeps it honest.
• One command opens the real UI. get_board returns the shipped board as a Cowork artifact — Todo / In Progress / Done columns, filters, dark mode, click-to-move, and a 📊 analytics dashboard (velocity, timeline, bug health, work-log feed) — all wired live to the server. No hand-rolled mockups.
• Your files, your rules. Boards are byte-compatible markdown. Existing FeatureBoard folders work with zero migration. Writes are atomic. Delete the extension tomorrow and your boards are still just markdown.
• Depth when you want it. The same server that tracks tickets also generates media, runs a CRM, drafts contracts and campaigns, builds and deploys a marketing site, and commits your code per ticket. Turn it down to the essentials with one toggle, or open the whole toolbox.

Measured: what the board actually buys you

A paired agent trial (n=10, sonnet model tier) showed the work packet cuts diff churn 1.76x (837 vs 1,471 additions) with equal correctness (10/10 both). Token spend is 6–11% lower (77.5k vs 83.2k median), secondary to the focus gain: less to review, maintain, and scope drift on open-ended asks. See docs/EVAL-BOARD-VS-CHAT.md.

Quickstart

1. Install the extension: double-click featureboard-0.9.2.mcpb, or Claude Desktop → Settings → Extensions → Advanced → Install Extension.
2. On first run it asks for your Boards folder. Each subfolder with a featurelist.md or buglist.md is a board.
3. Say "open the FeatureBoard board" — the live board opens as an artifact. Then just talk:
   • "Log a bug: gallery modal won't dismiss on mouse-out."
   • "Brainstorm five onboarding features and add them."
   • "Move FBF-207 to done — fixed the parser regex."
   • "How's velocity looking this week?"

First-run tip: the extension defaults to Essential tools only (~34 core board tools) for a clean start. Turn that off in the extension settings to expose the full ~216-tool surface (CRM, media, website, marketing, and more). After installing or updating, fully restart Claude Desktop so new tools load.

Not using Claude? Cursor, Grok Build, and any other MCP client can run the same server over stdio — see docs/INSTALL-OTHER-IDES.md for per-IDE config, tool-count limits, and the IDE-neutral instructions flag.

Recipes

Automate your board's daily routines without a daemon. Copy-paste these prompts into Claude Code → Scheduled tasks to run nightly board health checks, weekly sprint close-outs, and daily standups. See docs/RECIPES.md for three ready-to-use scheduled task recipes

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